COLCHICUM

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Clarke gives the toxic effects of homeopathy drug Colchicum and its therapeutic uses in non-toxic doses in his book The ABC Manual of Materia Medica and Therapeutics, published in 1901….

      Meadow saffron.

CHARACTERISTICS.

      Acute gout. Rheumatic gout. Gouty inflammation of the bronchi. Neuralgia in gouty or rheumatic subjects. Soreness in rheumatic joints.

TOXIC EFFECTS.

      Great prostration, nausea vomiting, cutting pains in the bowels diarrhoea followed by bloody and mucous stools. Suppression of urine, cold sweat, weak, intermittent pulse.

DOSE.

      Extractum colchici radicis, 1/2-2 gr.

Extractum colchici radicis fluidum, 2-4 m.

Vinum colchici radicis, 2-20 m.

Extractum colchici seminis fluidum, 2-5 m.

Tinctura colchici seminis, 15-60 m.

Vinum colchici seminis, 15-80 m.

Commence treatment with small doses, and increase until desired result is obtained. It is well to precede the drug by a laxative dose or two of sulphate of magnesia.

THERAPEUTIC USES.

      Acute gout.

Rheumatic gout.

Gouty inflammation of the bronchi.

Neuralgia in gouty or rheumatic subjects.

Soreness in rheumatic joints.

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George Hardy Clark
Clark, George H. (George Hardy) 1860-1941 was the author of: Homeopathic Treatment of Asthenopia; Lee and Clark's Cough and expectoration : a repertorial index of their symptoms; The A B C Manual of Materia Medica and Therapeutics; A system for the care and training of children; The Black Plague and Its Control.