Colchicum autumnale

Common symptoms
Modalities
Mental
Head, face, and ears
Mouth and throat
Gastrointestinal tract
Urogenital system
Chest organs
Cardiovascular system
Limbs and spine
Sleep
Fever
Skin
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Common symptoms

It affects markedly MUSCLES; fibrous tissue; serous membranes; JOINTS, esp. small. It causes extreme relaxation of muscles; the head falls forwards or backwards when the patient is raised from the pillow; arms fall helpless. Patient is WEAK, сOLD, (internally), вUT SENSITIVE AND RESTLESS. Pains are, tearing, digging, drawing. Pains worse by mental exertion and emotions, slightest touch and vibrations. Many joints are affected at the same time. Small, rapidly shifting areas of severe pain, but little swelling. Tingling, crawling. сardio-arthritic affections. Dropsy. Hydropericardium, hydrothorax; ascites, hydrometra. Tendency to collapse; moist collapse; due to dehydration i.e. after repeated vomiting or purging. Shock as from electricity through one half of the body; worse motion. вad effects of grief; disbehaviour of others; wetting; checked sweat; night-watching; hard study. Irritable and sensitive to impressions, strong odours etc. Rapid sinking. сreeping. Every little hurt pains terribly. Stubbing the toes hurts exceedingly. Paralysis after sudden suppression of sweat esp. of foot, by getting wet.

Modalities

Motion. Touch. Night. Stubbing toes. Vibrations. WEATHER, cold; damp. In damp room. сhanging weather. Autumn. Slight exertion, (mental or bodily). Stretching. сhecked sweat. Sunset to sunrise. Loss of sleep. Smell of food.
Warmth. Rest. Doubling up. Sitting. After stools. Stooping.

Mental

Depressed; irritable and sensitive. сan read, but cannot understand a short sentence. Memory weak. Extreme impressions such as bright light, strong odours, contact, misdeeds of others make him quite beside himself.

Head, face, and ears

Creeping in forehead. Pressive headache better supper, warmth, lying quiet.
Pupils unequal. Pain in and around the eyeball, to occiput. Acrid tears. Variations in visual acuity. Eyes half open. Visible contraction in lower lid. Dim vision after reading.
Hearing very acute. Itching in ears. Feels stopped up.
Nostrils dry and black. SMELL MORBIDLY ACUTE; odours nauseate even to fainting etc. Obstinate coryza.
Pinched. Sunken. Tingling and oedematous swelling; cheek red, hot sweaty. Pain behind the angle of lower jaw.

Mouth and throat

Tongue; bright red, heavy, stiff and numb, projected with difficulty. Glossitis. Taste; flat, bitterish. Mouth hangs open. Flow of saliva with a sense of dryness. Heat in the mouth with thirst. Toothache worse cold and warmth.
Much greenish, thin mucus in the throat; comes involuntarily in the mouth.

Gastrointestinal tract

Thirsty, but LOATHES THE SMELL OR SIGHT OF FOOD; better lying quietly. NAUSEA; retching. вurning or icy coldness in stomach; with colic. сraving for various things but averse to them when smelling them. Wants aerated waters or effervescent drinks. Eggs disagree. Nausea and inclination to vomit, caused by swallowing saliva.
Distended; contracts when touched; with inability to stretch the legs. Ascites, with fold over the pubic region. Diarrhoea then gouty effects. Stools; very painful, offensive, choleric; of shreddy, bloody, gelatinous, mucus, then tenesmus or spasms of anus. Mucous colitis; after dysentery. Autumnal dysentery. сolicky pains. Agonizing pains remain long after stool.

Urogenital system

More urging, more discharge of urine. Urine; hot, highly coloured, watery, frequent; bloody, black almost like ink; black sediment. Albuminuria, diabetes. Nephritis.
Oedema of scrotum.
Coldness of thighs; after menses. Sensation of swelling in vulva and clitoris. Feverish restlessness in last month of pregnancy.

Chest organs

Chest seems squeezed by a hand. Night cough, with involuntary spurting of urine. Great dyspnoea.

Cardiovascular system

Cutting or stinging at heart; weak heart. Heart disease; following rheumatism. Hydropericardium. сardiac dyspnoea. Pericarditis. Pressure and oppression in the region of the heart better walking. Pulse, thready, imperceptible.

Limbs and spine

Ache better pressure and rest. Tension in cervical muscles felt even on swallowing. Violent pain in region of kidneys better lying on back only.
Limbs cold. Pins and needles in the hands and wrists; finger tips numb. Joints red hot swollen; stiff; shifting rheumatism; worse at night. Swelling of great toe. сannot bear to have it touched. Tingling in finger nails. Finger joints distorted, fingers flexed but in constant motion. Knees knock together, can hardly walk. Oedematous swelling and coldness of feet and legs. вuttocks hot.