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Colchicum Autumnale.

Indicated in gout and rheumatic affections of joints with dread of having the parts touched and excessive pain from the slightest touch or knock; in fall-dysentery; in bad effects of night watching.

Great irritability.

Great prostration, with coldness and sense of collapse.

Nausea from the smell of cooking food, even from talking about it.

Gastric indigestion, with drum-like distension of the abdomen.

He craves different things, but when he smells them they excite nausea, even vomiting.

Vomiting of mucus, bile and food, with sense of coldness in the stomach and great exhaustion.

Diarrhoea of scanty, jelly-like stools, with much pain and drum-like distension of the abdomen;; often with painful urging and feeling as though the anus were torn open; stools contain white shreds, scrapings (fall-dysentery).

Rheumatic pains in the joints and toes; redness, heat, swelling; great sensitiveness to touch and motion; worse at night and in warm weather. Pain drawing, tearing, pressing; from left to right.

Anxious distress about the heart; cannot feel impulse of the heart; oppression; pulse thready.

Urine scanty, bloody, very dark.

Skin noticeably dry; no moisture or sweat.

Worse from motion; smell of food; loss of sleep.

Better when quiet; from sleeping; after stool.

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Indicated in neuralgic affections (sciatica with relief from hard pressure and lying on affected side; in ovarian pain (dysmenorrhoea); in rheumatism; particularly valuable in intestinal affections (colic, dysentery), with severe colicky pain causing him to bend double and press against some hard substance of relief. There is always present much irritability and protestation of great suffering. Useful in troubles caused by anger or indignation.

Vertigo as if he would fall when quickly turning head to the left.

Neuralgia, better from motion, chilliness.

Violent colic, making him bend double, occurring in paroxysms every few minutes, with restlessness and whining, better for a short time from emission of flatus and stool.

Colic better from hard pressure upon chair, table or other hard substance.

Pain in the whole abdomen as though the bowels were squeezed between stones; as though stones were being ground together in the abdomen, working upon soft parts; intestines feel sore and bruised.

Pain in the left temple, left malar, left cheek and shoulder; digging, tearing, pulsating.

Cramp-like pain in the hip, vise-like; lies on the affected side.

Boring pain in the ovary, better from pressure.

Diarrhoea (dysentery) of bloody, slimy stools, worse from food or drink.

Urine viscid, like thin glue.

Worse on the left side; from anger (colic, dysmenorrhoea); from mortification.

Better from hard pressure; from bending double.

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Indicated in affections of elderly people who have become weak and sluggish; in elderly persons of either sex, especially women at the change of life, who have been continent, but not without desire; in hard tumors and suspicion of cancerous tendency; in all glandular indurations, vertigo. Night-coughs of old people, frequently with gastric pain. According to T. F. Allen, useful in sexual nervousness of strong, healthy men who are unable to have erections.

Vertigo when turning over in bed; when lying down; on turning the head to the left; the contents of the room seem to be whirling around, must keep head perfectly still. From excessive use of tobacco.

Induration of glands (axillary glands, breasts, ovaries, testicles; also of uterine os and cervix) with pain as though bruised; knife-like pain sometimes no pain.

Breast enlarged before and during menstruation with pain.

Ovarian irritation, with sharp, lancinating pains.

Irritation of the eyes, with extraordinary degree of photophobia, out of all proportion to the severity of local symptoms; sensitiveness of eyes to artificial light; after hard night study.

Cough caused by dry spot in larynx, with itching of throat and chest, worse at night.

Extremities weak, trembling, numb; feel as though paralyzed.

Worse at night; when lying down; upon rising up in bed; before and during menses; from ungratified sexual desire.

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Indicated in affections of the mucous membrane, especially urinary and respiratory; useful in urinary catarrh - catarrh of the bladder, urethritis, gonorrhoea - and in coughs - laryngeal and bronchial. In also acts upon the skin and has been prescribed in urticaria and hives.

Burning cough with profuse purulent expectoration.

Cough with dryness and excoriating pain in the larynx, roughness of the voice, hoarseness, worse in the morning.

Burning in the urethra and neck of the bladder, frequent urging, even after urinating; micturition painful, often drop by drop, with turbid acrid discharge.

Urethral inflammation; pain at the orifice as if wounded; itching before and after urinating; burning while urinating; yellow, purulent discharge.

Urine smells of violets.

Urticaria, with heat, biting and violent itching.

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Indicated in violent spasmodic coughs, as whooping cough.

Sensation as though cold air were streaming through the air passages on deep inspiration, with provocation to cough and difficult raising of bronchial mucus. Expectoration of yellow, purulent mucus.

Most violent spasmodic cough, often preceded by sensation of smothering, followed by exhaustion; the attacks are extremely violent, the patient becomes purple in the face, followed by exhaustion or vomiting of quantities of tough mucus. Indicated in whooping cough by the extreme violence of the paroxysms, even with expectoration (T. F. Allen).

Attacks of cough come on rapidly, almost running into each other, affording no opportunity to rest between.

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Indicated in diseases of the genito-urinary system and in affections of the skin, with tendency to haemorrhage and decomposition, hence putridity of discharges. There is much restlessness and burning pain as from a red hot coal. Used in lupus of the nose and face, with burning pain; in choleraic conditions with fetid bloody stools, great prostration and gastric irritability; cholera infantum; many diseases of the female genital organs, as inflammations, cervical ulceration, malignant diseases of the uterus, cauliflower excrescences, leucorrhoea, pruritus, etc., characterized by burning pain, putridity and tendency to erosion. Also useful in gangrenous conditions.

Cough, with feeling as if the sternum were being crushed in.

Very rapid decay of teeth; they are dark and crumbly, with spongy, bleeding gums.

Diarrhoea; stools undigested, putrid, dark brown; with nausea and vomiting, restlessness and prostration.

Incontinence of urine; dreams he is out of bed, urinating.

Profuse menstruation, black, acrid; flow stops then returns. Followed by corrosive leucorrhoea, dark brown and thick, later yellow. Stitches from abdomen into vagina, better from walking, worse from lying down. Bleeding after sexual intercourse.

Leucorrhoea, thick, staining the linen yellow and stiffening it like starch; with dragging backache and pressure toward the vulva, better from motion, worse from rest. Odor of green corn.

Skin itching; festers, bleeds easily.

Itching eruptions with violent biting and burning pain after scratching.

Worse in the open air; from rest; after menses.

Better from warmth and motion.

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Indicated in black, stringy haemorrhages in hysterical conditions; chorea.

Mind vacillating, constantly changing; confused; incoherent.

Biting pain in the eyes as if from smoke; eyes water, especially in the open air; dimness, as though a veil were between the eyes and the light.

Sensation as of a ball rolling about in the abdomen; as if something living were jumping about in the pit of the stomach, in the abdomen and in other parts (hysteria, chorea).

Haemorrhage, dark, stringy; from the nose, uterus (on slightest movement), from lungs with drops of cold sweat on the head. On raising a clot of the blood, long strings hand down from it. "It has removed the disposition to miscarriage associated with an unnatural sensation of worms in the abdomen, or of something dead and heavy" (T. F. Allen).

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Indicated in low septic conditions, with expressions of general physical depravity; disorganization of the blood, refusing to form clots; jaundice with great prostration. Most useful in all fevers of a malignant type, as yellow fever, malignant scarlet fever, haemorrhagic measles, malarial fevers of tropical countries. Also in typhus, cerebro-spinal meningitis, diphtheria with oozing of blood from the orifices (mouth and anus); ulcerations of the stomach; jaundice with dark, scanty urine and oozing of blood from the rectum; haemorrhage from the kidneys after scarlet fever.

Mind clouded; face swollen, besotted; anxious, apprehensive; speech confused; answers disconnectedly; skin cold; pulse thready.

Tongue dry, cracked brown in the middle, bright red on the edges.

Skin sallow, yellow, jaundiced; boils and carbuncles, with purplish areola; skin blackish, mottled all over; haemorrhagic.

Eyes yellow, sensitive to artificial light; vision dim.

Occipital headache, with vertigo; soreness in the back of the head.

Dryness of lips and throat, without thirst.

Urine dark, bloody, albuminous.

Sticking pain in the stomach, with sense of pressure and intolerance of anything tight (clothing) about the stomach or hypochondria.

Weight, faintness and sinking at the epigastrium, with inability to retain anything in the stomach; vomiting of bile.

Abdomen swollen; very sensitive to pressure and touch.

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Indicated in diarrhoea and in vesicular and pustular eruptions of the skin.

Intense itching of the skin, better from gentle scratching, worse from hard scratching.

Sore nipple of nursing women; while nursing the child, excruciating pain from the nipple to the scapula.

Diarrhoea, sudden, expulsive, forcible, immediately after nursing, followed by great prostration.

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Indicated in affections of the respiratory and urinary mucous membrane, as catarrh of nose and throat and discharge of greenish-yellow mucus from the nose into the throat.

Cough (bronchial), with sensation as if it would tear the bronchial tube, and difficult, at times blood-stained, expectoration.

Urethral inflammation, with irritation and copious, dark, frothy urine, with cutting pain and constriction during micturition. Smarting tenesmus; ropy urine.

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Indicated in spasmodic affections (chorea), convulsive seizures (puerperal, epilepsy, convulsions of children). Particularly useful when convulsions and other threatening symptoms appear after suppression or too early disappearance of the rash in eruptive fevers. Valuable in whooping cough; in all forms of diarrhoea (cholera) with violent cramps in abdomen and calves of legs; in gastric affections with violent vomiting cramping; in colics so severe that collapse seems imminent. Laryngismus stridulus, spasmodic asthma, cerebro-spinal affections culminating in paralysis. Intermittent fever, with scarcity or suppression of urine and collapse.

Vertigo on looking up, with vanishing of vision as from a veil before the eyes.

Bruised pain in the brain and in eye-balls on turning them.

Delirium with fear of everybody and everything.

Sense of constriction in the throat, chest (cough, dyspnoea), gastro-intestinal tract (colic), uterus (cramps), etc.

Child lies on abdomen and spasmodically thrusts breech up.

Spasms, clonic, spreading from one point; epilepsy; convulsions; preceded by drawing in left arm.

Severe cramps in calves of legs, soles of feet, abdomen, forcing him to utter piercing shrieks.

Cough, spasmodic, long-lasting, suffocating (whooping cough); can hardly speak or breathe; lies stiff and with livid, blue face, unconscious, spasmodic twitching.

Asthma; violent; coming and going suddenly.

When drinking, it sounds as though water were running out of a bottle.

Vomiting; severe; with violent cramps in chest and abdomen, forcing him to utter piercing shrieks.

Diarrhoea with much griping pain; stools green. Ineffectual attempts to vomit or forcible vomiting, better from drinking cold water.

Chilliness, with cold sweat on the forehead; irregular and spasmodically contracted pulse; palpitation.

Skin mottled; bluish; itching; cyanosis; Pimples in folds of joints.

Worse from vomiting; before menses;

Better from cold water (cough, gastric symptoms); while sweating.

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Indicated in affections of the heart, with weak, irregular contractions, causing a fluttering sensation. Sense of faintness and fear of death from dread that the heart's action will suddenly cease. Of great value in organic heart disease, with scantiness of urine and dropsical effusion. Also in hepatic disease with jaundice, ascites, nephritis with cardiac symptoms, pericarditis with effusion; pneumonia, especially of the aged, with weakness of the heart's action. Less often in urethritis, specific and non-specific, and in prostatitis.

Mind sad, fearful, apprehensive.

Great dyspnoea, praecordial anguish, faintness; feels as though dying.

Difficult, irregular, sighing respiration.

Cardiac affections with great dyspnoea and faintness, with pulse irregular and intermittent, small and intermittent, slow and intermittent, small and slow.

Heart feels as though it would stop at any time, causing great distress and anxiety.

Stitches in the heart.

Weak, irregular pulse when lying down; worse from assuming erect position.

Coldness and oedema of feet; coldness of hands.

Dropsy.

Great thirst for sour drinks.

Eructations of watery fluid, so sour it sets his teeth on edge.

Faintness and weakness at the stomach; excessive nausea, not relieved by vomiting.

Soft, white stools, like chalk.

Dark, turbid urine, with much burning and pain while passing; ammoniacal.

Worse when sitting erect; after meals; after excitement.

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Indicated in whooping cough, clergyman's sore throat, and asthma.

Asthma, worse from talking; voice harsh, deep-pitched.

Cough, deep, hoarse, with strangling and choking; vomiting of slimy matter.

Cough in violent paroxysms like whooping cough.

Cough with sense of constriction; crawling sensation; tickling in the throat as from a crumb of bread; worse from warmth and from lying down.

Cough worse from drinking, after midnight, from getting warm in bed.

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Indicated in coughs, especially whooping cough, hay fever, laryngeal phthisis, of phlegmatic, scrofulous persons who have a delicate, irritable skin and suffer from eruptions.

Tearing pain into the orbit, ears, jaw, preceded by coldness of the part affected.

Coryza, with complete stoppage of the nose, worse from cold; profuse; discharge thick; yellow.

Cough hoarse, spasmodic; in violent paroxysms with tickling in larynx; expectoration of phlegm after long and tedious efforts; loose, rattling; in winter; in cold, damp weather.

During cough, constrictive pain in the epigastrium, so he cannot stand coughing, cannot make the necessary muscular effort, on account of the pain; can only cough by pressing his hand firmly on the pit of the stomach or by holding his side.

Rheumatism alternating with diarrhoea.

Pain in the small of the back, as after long stooping.

Diarrhoea from taking cold in damp place or damp weather.

Cutting pain about the navel after taking cold.

Diarrhoea; stools of watery, greenish mucus during change of weather from warm to cold or in cool, damp weather.

Vesical catarrh after taking cold, with strangury and pain, and thick, slimy sediment in the urine.

Skin covered with pimples here and there, especially on the face; pustules, with sticking pain when touched; itching, humid eruptions, or with bloody moisture; burning pain in raw, humid eruptions. Thick, brown, yellow crusts, bleeding when scratched. Cold-sores on the lips.

Swelling and induration of glands.

Worse from cold; from suppressed menstruation.

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Indicated in malarial conditions and fevers, chiefly intermittent fever; also in influenza. The severe aching in the (long) bones and the thirst are characteristic.

Chill. Always preceded by thirst; thirst gives warning of the approach of the chill; drinking will hasten it. At 7 to 9 a. m. one day, at noon the next day. Gaping, stretching, backache, aching in the (long) bones. At close of the chill, bitter vomiting, worse from drinking water.

Thirst during the chill and fever.

Fever, hot, with headache and thirst; to drink water makes him shiver.

Headache at top and back of head, with soreness of the eye-balls; periodical, at certain days (third or seventh).

Bilious condition; yellow tongue; bitter taste, soreness in liver; thirst; vomiting of bile; preceded by thirst; green, watery diarrhoea.

Hoarseness, with soreness in the chest; chronic cough, loose, worse at night.

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Indicated in derangements of the urinary organs, especially in irritable and inflamed bladder, with constant desire to urinate and aching in bladder and kidneys. In intermittent fever with vesical irritation.

Constant urging to urinate, with burning, cutting pain in bladder and urethra; feeling as though the urine had been retained too long.

Aching and cutting pain deep in the kidneys.

Chill in the small of the back, spreading from there over the whole body. Aching of bones.

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Indicated in catarrhal inflammations of the eyes and nose. In measles with marked eye symptoms.

Shivery and cold all the time.

Coryza, with profuse, acrid lachrymation, with cough and expectoration.

Copious lachrymation, with soreness of lids; thick, yellow, acrid discharge; sticky mucus on cornea, removed by frequent winking (conjunctivitis).

Eyelids red, swollen, burning, agglutinated in the morning.

Cough in the morning on rising, continuing during the day; no cough at night. Dry or with copious expectoration; symptoms of coryza.

Worse in the evening; indoors, from light and warmth.

Better in the dark, from coffee.

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Indicated in weak, anaemic, chlorotic persons, especially women, who are pale, flush easily from moderate excitement and from slight pain, the face assuming a bright red color. In congestive headaches; diarrhoea of undigested food, especially chronic cases; in teething children, consumption. Menstrual derangements in women who suffer from pain in the vagina during sexual intercourse. Coughs (consumption?); rheumatism, especially of shoulder and in the back.

Face pale, sallow; easily flushes bright red.

Fiery red face from any pain, even moderate, from exertion or excitement; red spots on the cheek.

Tendency to haemorrhage of bright red blood, coagulating easily.

Painless irritability of fibre (neck of bladder, urethra, rectum).

Headache: throbbing, hammering; with rush of blood to the head, swelling of the veins of the head; slight flashes of heat; cold hands and feet.

Vertigo on closing eyes or going downstairs, on walking over water; disposition to fall forward.

Tearing, stitching, lancinating pains in different parts of the body, with numbness, weakness, trembling; worse from efforts to move, but growing better when motion is continued.

Rheumatic pain in shoulders; lumbago; relieved by walking slowly.

Voracious hunger or complete loss of appetite.

Spitting up of food by the mouthful.

Intolerance of eggs.

Cardialgia, with heavy pressure in the stomach and vomiting of food right after eating.

Stools slimy, containing ascarides; or of hard, blackish balls; undigested; at night; painless with good appetite.

Cough; dry; after meal; with dyspnoea, dull pain and congestion of blood to the chest. Bloody, green, pus-like expectoration in the morning.

Menses too profuse; with labor-like pains in the abdomen and glowing heat of face; suffers from cold and damp; head hot, feet cold; flow intermittent, pale and watery or black and clotted.

Worse at night; at rest; after overheating; from washing in cold water.

Better from walking about slowly.

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