Colchicum

COMMON NAME:

      MEADOW SAFFRON.

Symptoms

      Affects markedly the muscular tissue, periosteum and synovial membranes of the joints.

Weakness and debility from night study and loss of sleep (Nux vomica).

Tearing in the limbs during warm weather, and stinging during cold weather.

Tingling in many parts of the body, as if frost-bitten whenever the weather changes.

Shocks as from electricity through one-half of the body, with sensation of paralysis.

Sensitiveness of the whole body, especially the affected parts, to contact and to motion.

Frequent startings (Belladonna, Hyoscyamus, Kali carb., Stramonium, Sulphur).

Tingling in the points of the fingers and toes.

General exhaustion of mind and body (Gelsemium, Kali-P., Phosphorus) (D.).

Dropsy of the uterus, from suppression of the menses. (Bt.).

Dropsical swelling and dropsy of the skin.

BROWN TONGUE (Arsenicum, Baptisia, Bryonia, Chin-Arsenicum, Hyoscyamus, Kali-P., Lachesis, Phosphorus, Plb., Rhus toxicodendron, Secale). (D.).

Scanty discharge of dark-red urine, with tenesmus (Cantharis, Lycopodium, Terebintha).

Extreme aversion to food (Bryonia, Kali-M., Pulsatilla) (D.).

NAUSEA FROM THE ODOUR OF FAT MEAT OR EGGS.

NAUSEA AND LOATHING AT THE THOUGHT OF FOOD (Arsenicum, Cocc., Graphites, Sepia) (D.).

HE GAGS FROM MERE MENTION OF FOOD (D.).

Loss of appetite (China, Graphites, Hepar, Ipecac., Lycopodium, Mercurius, Nat-S., Pulsatilla, Sepia) (D.).

Abdomen is distended enormously, with urging to stool and passage of jelly-like mucus (D.).

DYSENTERY, WITH GASTRIC SYMPTOMS AND DISCHARGE OF WHITE MUCUS WITH MUCH TENESMUS (Aloe., Merc-C., Nux vomica, Sulphur).

Spasm of the sphincter ani (Causticum, Ferrum, Tabacum) (D.).

SUDDEN SINKING OF THE VITAL FORCES (Arsenicum, Camph., Hydr-Ac., Kali-P., Veratrum) (Ra.).

Bad effects from suppressed perspiration (Silicea).

METASTASIS OF GOUT TO HEART (Benz-Ac., Kalm., Ledum, Pulsatilla) (D.).

Cutting pains about the heart and oppression (Arsenicum, Bryonia, Cact., Iodium) (D.).

Rheumatic pericarditis (Aconite, Bryonia, Kalm., Lachesis, Lycopodium, Mercurius, Rhus toxicodendron) (Bt.).

Dry, hacking cough, with burning and feeling of constriction across the chest (Bt.).

Burning or icy coldness in the stomach and abdomen (Camph.) (A.).

Cholera: sero-mucous vomiting and rice-water stools, thrown off with great force, with cramps of the abdominal muscles, flexors of the arms and feet, and sunken features (Arsenicum, Bism., Kali-P., Veratrum) (Bt.).

Cold surface, tongue and breath, mottled skin and bluish nails (Camph., Carbo vegetabilis, Laur.) (Bt.).

Oedematous swelling of the face (Apis., Phosphorus).

Intense boring or tensive pain in the ovary, causing her to draw up double, with great restlessness (N.).

Affected parts very sensitive to contact and motion (Apis, Arnica, Bryonia, Hepar, Lachesis) (A.).

ARTHRITIC PAINS IN THE JOINTS; PATIENT SCREAMS WITH PAIN ON TOUCHING A JOINT, OR STUBBING A TOE (A.).

REDNESS, HEAT AND SWELLING OF THE AFFECTED PARTS (Apis., Ledum, Rhus toxicodendron) (G.).

Whitish sediment in the urine (Calcarea, Acid phosphoricum.) (C.).

Ailments from grief or misdeeds of others (Staphysagria) (A.).

Pulse; small, weak, irregular; at times rapid, at times slow, intermittent, scarcely perceptible (R.).

Every motion excites or renews the vomiting; cannot sit erect (Bryonia, Verat-V.) (C.).

Salivation (Mercurius, Acid nitricum, Sepia). (K.).

SMELL PAINFULLY ACUTE; NAUSEA AND FAINTNESS FROM THE ODOUR OF COOKING FOOD, ESPECIALLY FISH, EGGS OR FAT MEAT (Arsenicum, Sepia) (A.).

Peevish, nothing satisfies him (Sulphur) (C.).

The small joints are most affected (Bl.).

Hydrothorax; with marked dyspnoea and oedema of the extremities (Merc-Sulph.) (Bl.).

Swelling of joints moving from one place to another (Kali-S., Pulsatilla, Spigelia) (N.).

FALL DYSENTERIES, WHEN THE DAYS ARE WARM AND NIGHTS ARE COLD; STOOLS SHREDDY AND BLOODY, LIKE SCRAPINGS (Cantharis, Merc-C.) (N.).

AGGRAVATION:

      In the evening; in the night; during an expiration; from exertion; from motion; while drawing breath; from touching the parts; during walking; from odour of cooking; food from mental emotion; and from loss of sleep.

AMELIORATION:

      While stooping; after evacuation; while reposing; when sitting; from lying quietly; and in the open air.

RELATIONSHIP:

      Compare: Arnica, Arsenicum, Benz-Ac., Berberis, Bryonia, Carbo vegetabilis, Cocc., Ipecac., Kali bichromicum, Mercurius, Natrum muriaticum, Nux vomica, Phosphorus, Pulsatilla, Rhododendron, Rhus toxicodendron, Terebintha, Thuja, Urt-U., Veratrum

ANTIDOTES: Camph., Cocc., Nux vomica, Pulsatilla, and Thuja

Complementary: Arsenicum, and Spigelia

Adolph Lippe

Adolph Lippe (born near Goerlitz, Prussia, 11 May 1812; died in Philadelphia, 23 January 1888) was a homeopathic physician who worked in the United States. Adolph got a legal education at Berlin. After completing his legal studies, Lippe became interested in homeopathy, and emigrated to the United States in 1837 to further his study. In 1838, he enrolled in the North American Academy of Homeopathy at Allentown, Pennsylvania, from where he graduated in 1841. He settled in Philadelphia, where from 1863 until 1868 he was professor of materia medica in the Homeopathic College of Pennsylvania. Besides some essays and treatises from the French, German, and Italian which became standards, Lippe was the author of:
Comparative Materia Medica (Philadelphia, 1854)
Text-Book of Materia Medica (1866)