Common name: (German) Zeitlose.
Introduction
Colchicum autumnale, Linn.
Natural order: Liliaceae.
Preparation: Tincture of bulb dug in spring (Stapf’s provings).
(* According to analyses the bulbs are most active in the fall just after flowering, Schroff, OEst. Zeit. f.p. Heilk, 1856.–T.F.A. *).
Mind.
Emotional.
Delirium (second evening), Delirium at night, Carphologia, Lively mood (alternate action), (third day), Especially lively mood (second day), Sad mood (third day), Anxiety, causing sighing, Irritable and peevish (second day).
Very ill humored; irritable mood (fourth day), Out of Humor; apprehensive of impending evil, Fretful mood, Very fretful, Great peevishness (second day), Morose, ill humored, nothing is right External impressions, for example, bright light, strong odors, contact, the misdeeds of others, make him quite beside himself.
Intellectual.
Great flow of thoughts at night, which disturb sleep (second night), Intellectual faculties very much weakened, The consciousness of logical connection was entirely destroyed, and his perceptive faculties were impaired by the slightest circumstances which interrupted the sequence of ideas, Was unable to write connectedly, Inability to fix the thoughts, wherewith the forehead seems tense, Weakness of memory; he forgets the words which he is about to speak, and can with difficulty collect his thoughts and continue to speak (thirteenth and fifteenth days), Very forgetful and absent minded, Loss of consciousness, Loss of consciousness and of pulse (second day), Became immediately stupefied, when laid in bed; could, however, be easily aroused and made conscious.
Head.
Confusion and Vertigo.
Confusion of the head, (second morning), (second day), Confusion of the head, posteriorly and superiorly, Confusion of the head, with slight vertigo. Confusion of the head, with headache.
Confusion in the forehead (first day). Confusion of the forehead, worse on walking in the wind, better in the room. Some confusion of the forehead (after one hour),; (third day),.
Somewhat confused in the head, in the morning. Vertigo, even to falling, while sitting after walking (soon). Slight vertigo, on rising (second day). Momentary slight vertigo. Sensation of vertigo and dizziness in the head (soon after).
Dizziness of the head, with confusion in the middle of the forehead.
General head.
Perceptible pulsation in the head (after one hour). Head falls backwards.
Congestion of the head, without headache. The head seems thick.
Great pain in the head. Headache; (soon). Headache deep in the head, extending across thought the head between the ears and somewhat evening, very violent and lasting through the night (fifth day).
Transient headache (fourth day). Transient headache in the evening.
Feeling as if something tightly bound the head (third day).
Pinching pains in different places, here and there in the head; transient. Pressive pain in the whole head, on going into a room after walking in the open air, disappearing after some sleep (fourth day). Pressive, finely burrowing headache, more on the right side and in the vertex (fourth day). Feeling as though the previous headache would return, especially on shaking the head, after rising in the morning; after washing this became a pressive headache and continued the whole day, becoming worse towards evening, seated in the outer posterior portion of the head.
Frequent slight stitches in the brain. Transient stitches in the brain, especially in the forepart, beneath the coronal suture (after one hour). Tearing in the head, especially in the frontal region, Forehead.
Very severe pain in the whole of the forehead, especially above the eyebrows, and extending into the dorsum of the nose (third day). A very violent pain in a small spot in the right side of the forehead, on waking in the morning.
Neuralgic pain in the right frontal eminence, pressive, corresponding to a dull pain in the right occipital protuberance, relieved by pressure and cold. Headache above the left eye immediately after eating, better in the open air, but continues and is very troublesome in the room. Fine headache in the middle of the forehead, together with peculiar hyperesthesia of the cranial nerves. Slight dull headache in the forehead near the coronal suture (after one hour).
Boring frontal headache above the right eye (second morning).
Boring frontal headache, especially over the left eye (second proving, second day). Tearing tension in a spot on the left half of the forehead, as if an abscess would form. Transient drawing headache just above the eyes, pinching. Pressure in the frontal region, as if everything would press outward. Pressive sensation in the forehead and eyes (second day). Pressive pain in the frontal region.
Pressive pain in the right, and afterwards in the left frontal region, in the occiput; relieved by warmth and rest in bed.
Pressive frontal headache above the right eye (third day).
Oppressive frontal headache above the eyes, in the afternoon (second day). Transient stitches in the forehead above the eyes, in the shoulders, elbows, and wrists (first day).
Temples.
Headaches in the right temple in the evening, relieved when quiet in bed. Painful drawing in the left temporal region.
Sticking pressure in the right temple, mostly in the evening.
Tearing in the right temple; (third day).
Jerking tearings in the temples.
Vertex.
Pain in the top of the skull, as if something were boring into the head; this painful spot moves along the sagittal suture.
Slight pressive headache in the vertex (first day).
Oppression in the vertex.
Parietals.
Drawing in the upper part of the left side of the head, extending down into the nose. Pressive headache in the right parietal eminence (fourth day). Pressive headache in a small spot on the upper part of the right side of the head, transient. Tearing in the left half of the head, extending to the vertex. Sharp, very painful drawing tearing in the left half of the head, which mostly commences in the eyeball of that side, and extends towards the occiput, lasting several days. Crawling boring tearing in a small spot on the upper part of the right side of the head; the same pain appears afterwards in the left side.
Occiput.
The headache extended from the forehead towards the occiput, towards evening. Dull drawing pain, extending from the nape of the neck across the occiput to the ears. A pressure, not very violent but very troublesome, deep in the cerebellum, caused by the slightest literary occupation. Severe pressure in the right side of the occiput (after half an hour). Oppressive heaviness in the occiput, especially on motion, or on bending a little forward. Tearing in a small spot on the left side of the occiput.
Pressive tearing pain in a small spot on the right side of the occiput.
External head.
The hair falls out freely. Sensation as through the scalp were drawn from behind forward to the top of the skull. Fine tearings in the scalp. Sleepless nearly the whole night on account of sticking jerks, sometimes only in the skin, sometimes deep in the soft parts of the head and face.
Crawling in the head beneath the forehead.
Eye.
Objective.
Eyes wide open, staring, like one intoxicated.
Eyes surrounded by dark rings, (after eighteen hours).
Eyes surrounded by deep dark rings. Convulsive rolling of the eyes (after four weeks). Distortion of the eyes.
Subjective.
Dryness of the eyes. Heaviness in the eyes, as though he had not slept enough, with injected vessels. Aching in the eyes. Pressive pain in the right eye. Short, violent, sharp tearing in and around the right eye. Biting in the right eye, especially in the external canthus, with some lachrymation and feeling as if the lids were agglutinated, Brow.
Pain in the bone over the left eye, on every motion; in the afternoon and evening, it increased to such a severe ache above the left eye, that every slight noise seemed intolerable; the pain remained constant at the same place (soon after taking); next day, the headache returned to the same place; aggravated by every motion of the head; on the third day, the same pain, but instead of over the left eye, it was in the right side of the occiput; aggravated by bending the head backward, or raising the eyes; next day, very severe headache, commencing at 6 p. m., above the left eye, and extending over the whole left side of the head, disappearing after supper (fourth day); on the next day, she awoke without headache, but it returned in a short time in the left side of the occiput, and extended to the left eye, and even into the face. Constrictive sensation above the eyes (second day). Slight momentary pressure in the eyebrows. Deeply piercing sticking in the upper part of the left eyebrow, with a feeling as though it were drawn upward. Fine stitches above the right eye (second day), Lid.
Ulceration of the Meibomian glands of the left lower lid, with swelling of the lid and great irritability of the nerves generally. Eyelids in constant motion (second day).
Twitching in the right upper lid. Slow but visible drawing (similar to twitching), in the left lower lid, towards the inner canthus.
Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.