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Colchicum Autumnale

30C / 200CColchicum

Autumn Crocus · Meadow Saffron · "The Gout and Smell Remedy"

colch.PolychrestPlantCommonPsoric

🎯 It acts primarily on the muscular tissues, periosteum, and synovial membranes of joints, with a specific affinity for relieving gouty pain.

📖 Boericke writes:

(COLCHICUM)

Affects markedly the muscular tissues, periosteum, and synovial membranes of joints. Has specific power of relieving the gouty paroxysms. It seems to be more beneficial in chronic affections of these parts. The parts are red, hot, swollen. Tearing pains; worse, in the evening and at night and from touch; stubbing the toes hurts exceedingly. There is always great prostration, internal coldness, and tendency to collapse. Effects of night watching and hard study. Shocks as from electricity through one half of body. Bad effects from suppressed sweat. Dreams of mice.

👤 Constitution

•Typically affects individuals who are very irritable, sensitive to touch, and prone to physical exhaustion, often following night-watching or intense mental strain.

⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See

There is always great prostration, internal coldness, and tendency to collapse.

introduction

The smell of food causes nausea even to fainting, especially fish.

stomach

Burning or icy coldness in stomach and abdomen.

stomach

Autumnal dysentery; stools contain while shreddy particles in large quantities.

stool

Inflammation of great toe, gout in heel, cannot bear to have it touched or moved.

extremities

🩺 Systems & Indications

👤Head

Useful for frontal and temporal headaches that worsen as the day progresses.

Headache chiefly frontal and temporal, but also occipital and in nape of neck, worse afternoon and evening.

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💊 Dosage & Potency

Historical record, not a prescription. Boericke published this in 1927. It is not medical advice — consult a qualified practitioner before acting on it.

Summarised from the passage below — Boericke’s own wording is the record.

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🌿 Remedy Relationships

🚫 Antidotes

Thuja Occidentalis →Pulsatilla Pratensis →Camphora →Cocculus Indicus →Nux Vomica →

🔄 Compare With

Arsenicum Album →Carbo Vegetabilis →Veratrum Album →Arnica Montana →Lilium Tigrinum →

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

About the repertory →

Colchicum Autumnale is listed in 287 rubrics across 22 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 114 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Locomotor System71 Abdomen44 Stomach30 Urinary System21 Nervous System19 Modalities16 Circulatory System16 Generalities12 Respiratory System10 Eyes9 Face9 Mind8 Fever6 Skin3 Mouth3 Nose2 Head2 Tongue2 Throat1 Teeth1 Male Sexual System1 Female Sexual System1

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