- Colchicum is best known as a remedy for gout and rheumatism.
- It markedly affects muscles, fibrous tissue, serous membranes, and joints, especially the small ones.
- Colch.
- relieves gouty paroxysms.
- Red, hot and swollen parts.
- Tearing pain, worse in the evening, at night, and from touch.
- Stubbing the toes hurts exceedingly.
- Many joints are affected at the same time.
- Small, rapidly shifting areas of severe pain, but little swelling.
- Pains are tearing, digging, drawing.
- Tingling, crawling.
- Stitching, jerk ing, drawing pains in muscles, periosteum and joints.
- Pains worse from mental exertion, emotions, slightest touch and vibrations.
- There is the irritability and aversion to touch so common in gout, pain in small joints and especially the great toes.
- Affects the periosteum and synovial membranes of joints.
- The stomach is acutely disordered, nausea and vomiting.
- Nausea at thought, sight or smell of food, especially of cooking.
- Dysentery.
- Uric acid diathesis, pale yellow sediment like fine flour.
- Urine black as ink.
- Urine loaded with albumen and casts.
- Extreme relaxation of the muscular system, the head falls forward on the chest or falls back when the patient is raised from the pillow, arms fall helpless by the side.
- Great prostration, internal coldness.
- Tendency to collapse.
- Moist collapse, due to dehydration, as after repeated vomiting or purging.
- Cardiac and arthritic disorders.
- Dropsy.
- Hydropericardium, hydrothorax, ascites, hydrometra.
- The patient must rest and lie down.
- Cannot lie on left side.
- Effects of night-watching and over study.
- Shocks as from electricity through one half of body.
- Bad effects from suppressed sweat.
- Dreams of mice
