- Colchicum is best known as a remedy for goutArthritis with severe joint pain and swellingA disease in which defective metabolism of uric acid causes arthritis, especially in the smaller joints of the feet. and rheumatismJoint, muscle, or tissue painInflammatory pain, stiffness, and swelling in joints, muscles, or surrounding connective tissues..
- 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 prostrationExtreme physical weakness or exhaustionA state of extreme physical weakness, collapse, or exhaustion, often accompanying severe illness., internal coldness.
- Tendency to collapse.
- Moist collapse, due to dehydration, as after repeated vomiting or purging.
- Cardiac and arthritic disorders.
- DropsyFluid retention and swelling (edema)An old medical term for edema, which is swelling caused by excess fluid trapped in your body's tissues..
- Hydropericardium, hydrothoraxFluid accumulation around the lungsA non-inflammatory accumulation of serous fluid in the pleural cavity (around the lungs)., 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