Meadow Saffron
Region
DIGESTIVE TRACT. HEART; pericardium. Circulation. Kidneys. Tissues [MUSCLES;
ligaments; fibrous; serous; JOINTS; small joints]. * Left side. Right side. Left to right.
Modalities
Worse: MOTION. Touch. Night. Stubbing toes. Vibration. WEATHER [cold; damp;
cold rooms; changing; Autumn]. Slight exertion. Checked sweat. Stretching. Sundown to sunrise. Extreme heat of summer. STRONG ODORS. Eating. Loss of sleep.
Better: Warmth; wrapping up. Rest; lying quietly. Doubling up. Sitting. After stool.
Open air.
Leading symptoms
M - Sensitive persons, more or less unprotected from external impressions [popular name of Colchicum is "Naked Ladies"], both mental and physical: physical, especially odors, mental: ailments from RUDENESS of OTHERS, wildness from misdeed of others [2/1]. Oversensitive to all external impressions [2] [mostly on account of PAIN; "gouty persons with extreme irritability of temper"].
M - Wildness from bright light, odors, touch [2/1].
M - Fear of mice; delusions; = sleeplessness.
G - Extreme DISINCLINATION to MOVE [similar to Bry.], but weak, restless and very chilly. [Combination of Ars. and Bry.]
G - agg. MOTION of AFFECTED part [3]. agg. WALKING. amel. While sitting [3].
G - TOUCH = electric-like shocks through body. agg. SLIGHT touch.
G - amel. On WAKING [2].
G - Sensitiveness, susceptibility and agg.: COLD, COLD and DAMP [Autumn;
Colchicum autumnale].
G - Oversensitive to ODORS, especially odors of eggs, fried fish, meat, fat, broth.
Nausea, vomiting and faintness from odors.
G - Weakness, internal coldness and tendency to collapse.
G - LIVER or digestive AFFECTIONS and forgetfulness [3], dullness [2], weakness of memory [3].
G - LIVER AFFECTIONS and GOUT; or LIVER AFFECTIONS and RHEUMATIC affections ["swelling of joints moves from one place to another."].
G - Pains go from left to right, except headache, which goes from right to left.
G - "Tingling in many parts of the body, as if frostbitten, whenever the weather changes"
[Lippe].
P - Tympanic distention of abdomen from flatulence; cannot stretch the legs.
P - Dropsical conditions; affections of kidneys with urine with black sediment [like INK].
P - Gout of BIG TOE, agg. motion, touch or stubbing the toe ["patient screams with pain"].
P - Mucous colitis; after dysentery.
P - Nausea and vomiting amel. lying quietly, agg. every motion.
P - Diarrhoea in AUTUMN.
Repertory Mind
Absent-minded [2]. Ailments, rudeness of others, from [2]. Delirium, headache, during [2]. Delusions, bed, under it, someone is [1], mice, sees [1], rats, sees [1]. Discontented, everything, with [1]. Discouraged, pain, from [1]. Dullness, interrupted, when [1/1]. Fear, mice, of, on waking [1/1]. Insanity, pain, from intolerable [2/4] [compare Wildness from misdeeds of others, from bright light, odors, touch]. Restlessness, pregnancy, during [2/5]. Touched, aversion to being [1].
Head
Pain, wet, from getting, while sweating [2]; pressing, occiput, stooping, on [2].
Eye
Cataract, soft [2]. Pain, pressing, canthi, in [2]; stitching, candlelight, in [2].
Face
Pain, wandering [2].
Stomach
Appetite, increased, vomiting, after [2]. Coldness, ice, like, with pain [2]. Vomiting, rising up in bed [2], food, then bile [2].
Rectum
Diarrhoea, Autumn, in [3].
Kidneys
Inflammation, bloody, ink-like, albuminous urine, with [3/1].
Urine
Color, black, ink, like [3/1].
Chest
Anxiety, bending forward amel. [2/1]. Oppression, bending forward amel. [2/1].
Palpitation, lying, while, amel. [2], sitting up agg. [2].
Extremities
Awkwardness, lower limbs, knocks against things [2]. Coldness, heat of, with, body [2].
Knocked together, knees [2]. Lameness, lower limbs, suppressed perspiration [2; Rhus-t.]. Pain, rheumatic, spring [2/1], warm weather, in [3]; joints, damp cold weather [3];
gouty, extending left to right [2/1].
Sleep
Disturbed, delusions, by fear of mice [1/1]. Sleeplessness, lying, because unable to lie on left side [2/1].
Generalities
Morning, daybreak amel. [1/2]. Collapse, sudden [2; Ars.]. Dropsy, heart disease, from [2], kidney disease, from [3], pregnancy, in [1].
Faintness, diarrhoea, after [1/4], odors, from [3]. Lying, stretched out agg. [1/8].
Perspiration, suppression of, complaints from [3]. Rest amel. [3]. Seasons, Autumn, agg.
in [2], spring, agg. in [2]. Shocks, electric-like, motion, during [1/2], touched, when [1/1].
Sleep, loss of, from [2]. Stretching out affected parts agg. [2]. Touch agg. [3], slight agg.
[2]. Weakness, loss of sleep, from [1], restlessness, with [2].
Food
Aversion: Food, smell of [3]; eggs, smell of [2]; fats and rich food [2]; fish [2]; food, sight of [2]; pork [2].
Desire: Carbonated water [1]; coffee [1]; cold drinks [1]; eggs [1]; mustard [1]; wine [1].
Worse: Broth, smell of [3]; food, smell of [3]; food, sight of [3]; eggs, odor of [2/1]; fat [2]; fish, smell of [2]; meat [2]; pork [2]; pork, smell of [2]; soup, smell and thought of [2]; alcohol [1]; butter [1]; coffee [1]; eggs [1]; fruit [1]; meat, odor of cooking [1].
Nucleus
1. Oversensitive to all external impressions, especially to odors.
2. agg. Motion and touch.
3. agg. Cold, cold and damp, Autumn. Very chilly and restless [but weak] persons.
4. Rheumatic or gouty affections, especially of small joints; with wandering pains, swellings and inflammations.
5. Disturbances of liver and digestive tract; and forgetfulness or rheumatic affections.
Notes
Colocynthis
Bitter Cucumber Region
NERVES [TRIFACIAL; ABDOMINAL; spinal; SCIATIC]. DIGESTIVE TRACT.
INTESTINES. Ovaries. Kidneys. * RIGHT SIDE. Left side.
Modalities
Worse: EMOTIONS. VEXATION. Chagrin. Anger. Lying on painless side. Night, in bed. Drafts. Taking cold. Mortification caused by offense. Cheese [colic]. Evening. After eating. In repose. Motion.
Better: BENDING DOUBLE; HARD PRESSURE. Coffee. Heat. Rest. Gentle motion.
After stool or flatus. Lying upon abdomen. Touch.
Leading symptoms
M - Pent-up emotions, especially anger [anger with silent grief -2], leading to PHYSICAL complaints, especially CRAMPS.
M - Restlessness with the pain. "Attempt to disguise the restlessness, which is a stiff kind of restlessness, not the thrashing about type. Don't want others to know that they are suffering too much" [Morrison]. "Does not like to talk, to answer, or to see friends, or anybody" [Lippe].
M - Emotions come out with the pain: ANGER with the PAIN; screams with the pain.
Distorted face. "Irritable; throws things from his hands" [Allen].
G - Pre-eminently an acute remedy.
G - agg. 4 - 5 P.M. [2].
G - amel. BENDING DOUBLE, HARD PRESSURE; heat. "Limbs drawn up like a hedgehog."
G - amel. LYING on ABDOMEN [2]; lying on painful side [2].
G - Sudden, violent CRAMPING pains; making him TWIST, turn or cry out in pain.
G - Pains and nausea or diuresis.
G - Cutting, pinching, clamping, gnawing, grasping, clutching or boring pains [NEURALGIC, in WAVES, paroxysmal], followed by NUMBNESS.
G - Abdominal colics from anger, cheese, indigestion; alternating with vertigo; and cramps in calves, diarrhoea. "Colic so distressing that they seek relief by pressing corners of tables or heads of bed-posts against the abdomen" [Hering].
P - Persistent bitter taste in the mouth.
P - Prosopalgia [right-sided] and painful twitchings, amel. pressure and heat. [In more chronic stage agg. pressure.]
P - Sciatica [right-sided], shooting or band-like [followed by numbness], agg. least motion, rotation and at night, amel. lying on painful side.
P - Diarrhoea and pain in lower abdomen or around the navel, as if intestines were squeezed between stones.
P - Acute digestive affections after eating unripe or decayed fruit; or drinking bad water;
e.g. drinking unboiled water in a (sub)tropical country.
P - Vertigo from turning head quickly to the left.
P - Dysmenorrhoea, violent menstrual cramps, has to bend double; with the above-mentioned modalities and concomitants.
Repertory Mind
Ailments, anger, after, with indignation [3], anger, with silent grief [2]. Confusion, beer, from [2]. Scorn [2]. Shrieking, pain, with the [2].
Vertigo
Turning, or moving the head quickly [2].
Head
Pain, cry out, pains compel one to [2].
Eye
Lachrymation, pain, with other parts of body, in the eye [2]. Pain, bending forward agg.
[2/1], menses, during [2], rest agg. [2], walking in warm room amel. [2/1].
Face
Pain, motion agg. [2], paroxysmal [2], pressure agg. [2], walking in open air amel. [2], extending to neck [2].
External throat
Pain, pressing, sides, turning head [2/1].
Stomach
Inflammation, cold, after taking [2]. Nausea, abdomen, during pain in [3]. Pain, excitement, after [3], potatoes, after [2]; cramping, bending forward amel. [3].
Abdomen
Pain, aching, as if squeezed between two stones [2/1], coffee amel. [3/1], drinking, when overheated [3], flexing limbs amel. [3], fruit, after [3], pregnancy, during [2], extending to anus [2], extending to back, small of [2], extending to pubic region [3]; cramping, drinking water, after [3], flatus, from passing, amel. [2], fruit, after [2], pressure amel.
[3].
Rectum
Constipation, drugs, after abuse of [3]. Diarrhoea, coffee amel. [2], rhubarb, after [2].
Involuntary, standing, on [2]. Unnoticed, stool, hard stool [2].
Urethra
Pain, burning, stool, during [2/1].
Urine
Copious, drunk, more than is [2].
Female genitalia
Pain, ovaries, bending double amel. [2], flexing thigh amel. [2]; uterus, menses, during, cry out, compels her to [2].
Respiration
Difficult, menses, during [2] [from pain!].
Back
Pain, ascends, constriction of anus, with [2/1]. Stiffness, cervical region, turning head, on [2].
Extremities
Pain, lower limbs, sciatica, right [2], flexing leg amel. [2/1], lying on painful side amel.
[2], numbness, with [2], pressure agg. [2], touch agg. [2], warmth of bed agg. [2].
Stiffness, knee, squatting, preventing [2].
Sleep
Sleeplessness, mortification, after [2/1].
Food
Aversion: Food [2]; water [1].
Desire: Beer [2]; bread [2]; cold food, without thirst [2].
Worse: Fruit [3]; beans and peas [2]; potatoes [2]; beer [1]; cheese, old [1]; cold drinks [1]; cold food [1]; farinaceous food [1]; rhubarb [1].
Better: Coffee [2].
Nucleus
1. Pent-up emotions, especially anger and vexation, leading to physical ailments, especially colicky and neuralgic pains.
2. Anger comes out with the pain, and screaming, crying, distortion of face, lachrymation.
3. Pain followed by numbness.
4. Pain and diarrhoea, nausea, vomiting or diuresis.
4. Neuralgic, paroxysmal pains, amel. bending double, hard pressure, heat.
5. Right side.
Notes