For small swollen joints, Nausea, vomiting, getting wet, albuminuria

Clinical Indications of Colchicum autumnale

Colchicum is a good remedy for weakness or sudden prostration and it acts on muscles, bones, and joints.

All symptoms are aggravated from sundown to sunrise.

Nausea at thought, sight, or smell of food, especially of cooking, is a characteristic symptom of Colchicum.

Stitching, jerking, drawing pains in muscles, periosteum, and joints.

Results of getting wet and getting chilled, changes to damp weather are relieved with Colchicum.

Colchicum resolves the swollen joints, stiff and powerless feeling, pains.

Pains in gout go from left to right, headaches right to left.

Patient Profile: Colchicum autumnale LM potency medicine

Mind and Head

Weakness of memory, disinclination to every mental exertion, absence of mind indicates Colchicum.

The headache is relieved, after supper, cramp-like pains in the head, especially above the eyes.

Eyes, ear, nose

Pains in the eyes, like a digging with swelling of the lower lids. Watering of the eyes in the open air.

Sensation of obstruction in the ears, discharge from the ears, with drawing pains.

Tingling in the nose.

Mouth and Throat

Edematous swelling of the face, lips cracked indicates Colchicum.

Acute pains in the gums, smarting and sensation of dryness of the tongue and throat.

Inflammations, tearings and shootings in the palate, and in the throat is relieved with Colchicum.

Stomach and abdomen

The smell of food cooking nauseates to faintness. Nausea, after swallowing the saliva. Shooting in the pit of the stomach.

Burning or sensation of coldness in the stomach, and much gas in stomach or abdomen is resolved with Colchicum.

Colic, with tearing pains.

Pain, as of burning and pressure in the abdomen, in the region of the bladder, and in the internal genital parts.

Stool and Anus

Colchicum is useful white or bloody mucous discharges, looking as if the mucous membrane had been scraped off the intestines, with great tenesmus.

Watery discharges, going off without sensation.

Tingling itching, burning, and tearing in the anus indicates Colchicum.

Urinary complaints

Urine loaded with albumen and casts indicate Colchicum.

Pullings, tearings, and incisive pains in the urethra.

Painful and scanty emission of urine of a bright red color.

Neck and Back

Soreness in the small of the back when touching it.

Pain, as from excoriation in the loins, during movement is relieved with Colchicum

Extremities

Pain in small joints, and especially the great toes is relieved with Colchicum.

Tearings in the arms, the hands, and the fingers, tingling in the fingers, legs, the feet, and the toes as if frozen.

Tingling in finger-nails is resolved with Colchicum.

Generalities

Hoarseness in the morning with roughness of the throat.

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

Great weakness, with sensation of lameness through all the limbs.

Powerlessness of the affected parts indicate Colchicum.

Swelling of joints moving from one place to another, pit on pressure aggravated, in extremes of wet and cold, worse from motion.

Coldness is a common symptom whcih runs with all complaints in Colchicum.

About LM potency homeopathy medicines

In the sixth edition of ‘Organon’ Dr. Hahnemann had introduced a new system of dilution and potentization and called it “renewed dynamisation” with a diluting ratio of 1:50,000. It was named as 50 millesimal potency or LM potency by Dr. Pierre Schmidt. In some parts of the world, it is also called as Q potency. It soon got professional acceptance. As on date, it is recognized by different homoeopathic pharmacopoeias including American and Indian.

What are they and how are they denoted?

These homoeopathic potencies are prepared in the diluting scale of 1:50,000 and denoted as 0/1, 0/2, 0/3…..etc. They are generally used up to 0/30.

Perceived advantages

• Highest development of power at each potency level.
• Mildest reaction – no medicinal aggravation.
• Frequent repetition is permitted; every hour or oftener in urgent cases.
• Quick cure in chronic cases where it can be given daily or oftener.
• 0/3 is more subtle than 30C or 200C and the 0/30 is sharper than CM as believed by many classical homoeopaths.

LM potency dosage: Generally LM potencies are administered as follows:

1. Take a 4oz (120ml) to 6oz (180ml) clean glass bottle. Fill it 3/4th with water. Take 1or 2 globules of the desired potency (often starting at LM 0/1) and place it into the bottle.
2. Succuss the bottle just prior to ingestion 1 to 12 times depending on the sensitivity of the patient. This slightly raises the potency and activates the remedy.
3. Take 1, or more teaspoons of the medicinal solution and place it into 8 to 10 tablespoons of water in a dilution glass and stir it. Most cases are started with 1 teaspoon and the amount is increased only if necessary. In children the amount should be 1/2 teaspoon. Infants may only need 1/4 of a teaspoon.

The dosage of the medicinal solution can be carefully adjusted to suit the sensitivity of the individual’s constitution

Note: We dispense SBL LM potency medicines in 1/2, 1 & 2 dram plastic containers, image for illustrative purpose only.