COLCHICUM.
FACE.
► Objective. ► Expression very suffering, [80].
► Complaining, sad expression, [51]. ► Expression of anxiety, [13]. ► Face expresses
great anxiety, [67]. ►
Paleness of the face, [48], [50]. ► Very great paleness, [78]. ► Face pale (second
day), [32]. [190.]
► Face pale and sunken, [16],
[65]; (after eighteen hours), [17]. ► Face very pale, [80], [85]. ► Face bluish-white, [84].
► Face sunken, [68].
► Face sunken, Hippocratic, [19]. ► Features drawn, [76]. ► The features are
completely changed, and look as if he had been long sick (after five hours), [51]. ► Subjective. ► Pain in the face, in a small spot on the right side, near the
temple (fourth day), [44]. ►
Pain in the face, or twinges in the ears, near the right articulation of the jaw (second
day), [44]. ► A
very unpleasant sensation in the bones of the face, as if they were widely drawn asunder;
with some drawing jerkings in them, [51]. [200.] ►
Jerking-drawing pain in the muscles of the face, deep into the bones, [51]. ► Tearing and tension in the
left side of the face, extending to the ear and head, [53].
► Cheeks. ►
Cheeks red and hot, [27]. ►
Cheeks, lips, and right eyelids purple-red, [13]. ► Cheeks, lips, and eyelids purple, [67]. ► Cheeks and chin
alternately pale and red (after six weeks), [20]. ► Sensation in both cheeks as if they would be drawn asunder, [71]. ► Slight drawing in
the upper jaw, on the right side, extending to the margin of the orbit, transient, and
alternating with irritation in the throat (I am not subject to toothache), (after half an
hour), [46]. ►
Stitches in the left cheek, [73]. ► Tearing in the right upper and lower jaws, with a sensation
as if the teeth were too long, [54]. [210.] ► Dull pain in the left
cheek, as from a bruise or blow, [74]. ► Lips. ► The lips
became very pale and tender; the slightest motion of the mouth cracked the skin of the lower
lip, [41]. ► Lips
only slightly red, [80]. ►
Lips bluish, [85]. ►
Lips and tongue bluish and dry, [84]. ► Blue lips and nails, [77].
► Lips violet, [78].
► Hydroa on the upper lip, [25].
► Lips cracked, [56].
► Sharp cutting tearing in the vermilion border of the
upper lip, left side, [52]. ►
Lower Jaw. [220.] ►
Severe tension in the articulation of the lower jaw, so that he was obliged to lay aside the
cigar, and felt relieved when he had finished it, [34].
► Pinching pain in the right articulation of the jaw, [52]. ► Sticking pressure
beneath the left lower jaw (after four hours), [39]. ► Stitches in the left side of the lower jaw, sudden and
transient, [39]. ►
The masseter muscles seem increased in breadth, allowing him to open his mouth only a
little, and with pain, [51].
MOUTH.
► Teeth. ► Grinding of the teeth (after three days), [20]. ► Sensation of bluntness of
the teeth, with drawing pain extending from the tips of the teeth of the upper jaw into the
jaw-bone, [71]. ►
The teeth seem too long, [71]. ►
Toothache; the teeth seem too long, [73]. ► Painful grumbling in the upper back teeth, [52]. [230.] ► (Decayed teeth became painful when chewing), (second day), [32]. ► Drawing and cold
sensation in the incisors of the lower jaw, [74]. ► Drawing pain in the teeth, caused by taking anything cold
immediately after something warm (after two hours and a half), [54]. ► Pressive toothache in the
left lower back teeth, [52]. ►
Stitches in the teeth of the right side, [41]. ► Tearing in the roots of the left lower teeth, [52]. ► Toothache, making the
teeth sore, [52]. ►
The teeth are so sensitive that he is unable to bite upon them, [51]. ► Gums. ► Follicular inflammation of the gum, about the right incisors,
[38]. ► Tearing in
the right lower gum, [35]. [240.]
► Tearing in the gum of the left lower front teeth, [52]. ► Tearing in the
upper part of the gum, in the upper part of the right side of the mouth, above a hollow
tooth, [52]. ► Tongue.
► *Tongue very white, [85]. ► Tongue pale-blue, and
cold, [72]. ►
Tongue very yellow, [65]. ►
Tongue, red, covered with mucus, [49]. ► Tongue bright-red, coated only at the root, [19]. ► Tongue coated in the
morning, [11]. ►
Tongue somewhat coated in the morning, [10]. ► Tongue coated white (second day), [32]. [250.] ► Tongue thickly coated yellow (after eighteen hours), [17]. ► Tongue covered
with thick brown fur (after eight days), [20]. ► Heaviness of the tongue; it was difficult to find the right
word, and, when found, to articulate it, [15]. ► The tongue became at first heavy, then stiff, and lastly
insensible, so that it was almost without sensation for six hours, after which it gradually
recovered, [1]. ►
Velvety sensation on the tongue, [39]. ► Burning in the tongue, [57].
► Prickling burning on the margin of the tongue (after
one hour and three-quarters), [37]. ► Sensation of burning, and fine sticking on the tongue, [56]. ► Fulness of the
tongue, [74]. ►
Sensation as though the tongue were enlarged, [74]. [260.] ► On moving the tongue,
and in swallowing, she experienced sharp pain about the root of the tongue (third day), [83]. ► Tearing in the
back part of the left side of the tongue, [52]. ► Some transient stitches in the middle of the tongue (after
nine and thirteen hours), [54]. ►
Biting sensation on the tongue and in the throat, [46].
► General Mouth. ►
A small follicular ulcer of the size of a pea in the commissure of the upper lip and gum,
with burning pain; it continues to enlarge till after a dose of Kali bichrom. (third day), [37]. ► Blunted
sensibility of the whole mouth, especially of the tip of the tongue; immediately, [71]. ► Dryness of the
mouth (first night), [32]. ►
Sensation of warmth and dryness in the mouth (after two hours), [39]. ► Heat in the mouth, rather
more thirst than usual, [55]. ►
Burning in the mouth and stomach, [70]. [270.] ► Burning in the mouth
and whole of the pharynx, [11]. ►
Excessive burning in the mouth, [17], [65]. ► Scraping, with pasty taste
and great hunger, [39]. ►
Constant scraping-crawling sensation in the posterior portion of the palate, as in coryza, [52]. ► An agreeable
prickling sensation in the mouth (as after the carbonic acid of champagne), with increased
secretion of saliva, [37]. ►
Saliva. ► Increased secretion of saliva, [74]; (after a quarter of an hour), [54]. ► Increased secretion of
agreeable-tasting saliva, [38]. ►
Secretion of saliva greatly increased immediately, [71].
► Profuse salivation, the whole day, [54]. ► Very profuse salivation
(eighth day), [51]. [280.]
► Expectoration of much watery saliva, [51]. ► Great collection of watery
saliva, with nausea, fulness, and discomfort in the abdomen (after four hours), [51]. ► Constant
accumulation of watery saliva for several days, with dryness of the throat, [51]. ► Salty saliva, having a
peculiar piquant taste (after one hour and a quarter), [37].
► Collection of water in the mouth (after a quarter of an
hour), [54]. ► Some
greenish mucus is involuntarily thrown out of the mouth, while sneezing, [52]. ► Taste. ► Taste pasty (second morning), [32].
► Bitter taste in the mouth, [74]. ► Bitter flat taste in the
mouth (second day), [44]. ►
Taste bitter and flat, [27]. [290.]
► Transient bitter taste (soon after), [27]. ► Even strongly tasting food
causes a sensation as if he were chewing a piece of old linen, [51].
THROAT.
► Objective.
► Perceptible pulsation in the carotids (after nine
hours), [39]. ►
Inflammation of the whole throat, [51]. ► Much mucus collects in the throat; it has a greenish look
when expectorated, [52]. ►
Frequent hawking of scanty mucus, [39]. ► Subjective. ► Dryness
of the throat (after two hours), [38], [48], [50]. ► Dryness and scraping in the throat, [34]. ► Some dryness in the
throat, [27]. ►
Great dryness in the throat, as if painful on swallowing, like a commencing catarrh, [35]. [300.]
► Scraping dryness in the throat, [34]. ► Sensation of dryness in
the throat; the uvula, as well as the arches of the palate, is slightly red (first day), [26]. ► Scraping dry
sensation in the throat, with tickling cough (after half an hour), [46]. ► Constriction of the
throat, [58]. ►
Pinching in the posterior portion of the throat, as in commencing angina; with great dryness
in the throat, and somewhat impeded swallowing (second day), [44].
► Tearing far back in the throat, more on the left side, [52]. ► Rawness in the
throat, with a hoarse voice, in the morning, [52]. ► Constant crawling in the thorax, with loosening of thin
mucus, so that it must be frequently expectorated, [52].
► Severe crawling in the throat, which provokes a hacking
cough and hawking of mucus, [52]. ► Biting crawling in the back of the throat, [52]. ► Uvula. [310.] ► Uvula painful and
red, [27]. ►
Burning in the uvula, soon followed by profuse pale urine (after a few minutes), [2]. ► Pharynx and
Œsophagus. ► Slight constriction of the
pharynx, [71]. ►
Burning heat in the pharynx and along the œsophagus, [77].
► Sensation at the commencement of the œsophagus, on
drinking, as if there were a large round swelling there, [51].
► Swallowing. ►
Difficult swallowing, [17]. ►
Swallowing difficult, [65]. ►
Swallowing difficult, with pain along the œsophagus (after eighteen hours), [17].
STOMACH.
► Appetite.
► Increased appetite (after four hours), [27], [45]. ► Appetite increased, at noon (first day), [33]. [320.] ► Appetite for dinner increased (second day), [32]. ► Great appetite, [31]. ► Great appetite,
in the evening (first day), [25]. ► Appetite was very voracious during the whole proving, [26]. ► Enormous appetite
(third day), [25]. ►
Hunger in the afternoon (first and second days), [25].
► Sensation of hunger, soon, [28]. ► Sensation of gnawing
hunger; almost a throbbing in the stomach (after a quarter of an hour), [44]. ► Appetite diminished, [11]. ► Loss of appetite,
[7], [51];
(third day), [5]. [330.]
► Entire loss of appetite, [3].
► No appetite for breakfast, [10]. ► *He has appetite for different
things, but as soon as he sees them, or still more,
smells them, he shudders from nausea and is unable to
eat anything, [51]. ► Thirst. ► Thirst
(soon), [20]. ► Thirst
increased, [10], [11]. ► Much thirst, [58]. ► *Great thirst,
[84], [85];
(after four hours), [82]. ►
Great thirst, in the afternoon, [74]. ► Excessive thirst, [3], [79]. ► Extreme thirst,
with the most violent pain in the stomach and bowels, [21].
[340.] ► Unquenchable
thirst, [17], [19], [65]; (after fifteen
hours), [67], etc. ►
Tormenting thirst, [69]. ►
Burning thirst, [78]. ►
Desire for cold drinks, [17]. ►
Eructation and Hiccough. ► Eructations, [45], [71]; (after
five minutes), [73]. ►
Eructations and profuse vomiting of yellow fluid, [13].
► *Eructations, with burning in the stomach (after
half an hours), [74]. ►
Frequent eructations (second day), [30], [69]. ► Frequent
eructations and yawning (nothing unusual), [39]. ► Constant eructations and retching, without vomiting, [13]. [350.] ► Empty eructations (third day), [33].
► Empty, tasteless eructations, [39]. ► Frequent empty
eructations, soon, [32]. ►
Many empty eructations, in the forenoon, [52]. ► Constant eructations of air, [51].
► Eructations of water, [29].
► Hiccough, [59]. ► Hiccough, for fours at a time, [51].
► Heartburn. ►
Slight heartburn (after one hour), [1]. ► Nausea and Vomiting. ►
Nausea, [45], [66];
(immediately), [55]. [360.]
► Nausea in the throat, caused by pressure from below, [34]. ► Nausea after
dinner of which he could eat only a little, [11]. ► Nausea at times, during dinner, [54]. ► Nausea, on assuming an
erect position, [51]. ►
Nausea, and inclination to vomit (second day), [32]. ► Nausea, with inclination to vomit if he swallows the saliva, [51]. ► Nausea, with
copious and easy vomiting, immediately followed by appetite, [6].
► Nausea, and vomiting of bile, [7]. ► Nausea, and vomiting of
tenacious bile, [9]. [370.]
► Nausea, increasing after every dose until he vomited
three times; after which he ate a little, but it was immediately vomited, [6]. ► Nausea, becoming very
violent; continuing until the next day, when he vomited, in the morning, more than a quart
of a thick whitish substance; and again vomiting, at 11 A.M., of much tenacious greenish
matter; soon repeated; also, at 3 P.M., vomiting of some brandy and water which he had
taken; and again, vomiting at 4 P.M.; the nausea still continued on the third day, during
which it gradually abated, [5]. ►
Slight nausea, after eating, [10]. ► Great nausea, with trembling of the abdomen, and painful
contractions and gripings, in the morning, on waking (third day), [71]. ► He feels so very much
nauseated and so qualmish, with constant accumulation of saliva and dryness in the throat,
that he turns hither and thither discouraged, with great distraction of mind and loss of
physical power (after five hours), [51]. ► Standing up increases the nausea and causes vomiting of
bitter fluid, [71]. ►
The nausea is relieved for a short time after every attack of vomiting, [51]. ► Qualmishness, [39]. ► Retching and
eructations (after one hour), [71]. ► Violent retching; after retching a long time, vomiting of a
large mass of yellowish mucus, bitter as gall, and leaving a bilious bitter taste in the
throat, [51]. [380.]
► Inclination to vomit, [45].
► Vomiting, [59],
[69]. ► Vomiting
frequent, but scanty, [7]. ►
Vomiting of a whitish-gray fluid, [80]. ► Vomiting of green fluid, [20].
► Vomiting of much yellowish-green water, [65]. ► Thin and slimy vomiting, [79]. ► Vomiting of food
and pale greenish mucus, [19]. ►
Vomiting of undigested food and yellow liquid, followed by diarrhœa, [84]. ► Vomiting what he had taken
for breakfast (after one hour), [82]. [390.] ► Vomiting, first of
food taken the night before, followed by a great quantity of thick, yellow bile, several
basinfuls (after three hours). The matter vomited became thinner and less yellow, and
ultimately (after twenty hours), it was of a pale straw-color, containing a large quantity
of small white shreddy particles, [83]. ► *Vomiting, with watery diarrhœa, [85]. ► Repeated vomiting, [75]. ► Vomiting
frequent, throwing up his drinks, tinged with bile (after four hours), [82]. ► Frequent vomiting of a
yellowish-green fluid, lasting the whole day; and so violent that he was unable to retain
the slightest food or drink, [16]. ► Frequent vomiting of bile, with violent griping in the
abdomen, followed by bitter taste in the mouth and throat, [51].
► Constant vomiting, [77].
► Almost incessant vomiting of colorless and inodorous
fluid, [78]. ►
Excessive vomiting and retching, [48]. ► Violent vomiting of a brown substance, [76]. [400.] ► Violent vomiting of all the food eaten three hours previously
(after six hours), [51]. ►
Violent vomiting and diarrhœa, [17], [65]. ► Violent vomiting (with
trembling and cramps), [60]. ►
Vomiting, very violent, at first of greenish water, afterwards of the contents of the
stomach, [66]. ► *He
was obliged to bend himself up and lie quite still the whole day, without the slightest
movement, else he was seized with the most violent vomiting, [51]. ► Frightful vomiting, [49]. ► Frightful
vomiting, at first of food mingled with a brown, bitter powder, at last of water, partly
bitter, partly flat-tasting mucus, [47]. ► He was only able to lie upon the right side; frightful
vomiting was renewed on every motion or change of position, [51].
► Stomach. ►
Rumbling and moving in the stomach, [37]. ► Gastritis, [19]. [410.] ► Desire to hiccough, [3]. ► Weakness and
oppression of the pit of the stomach, [84]. ► Uneasiness at stomach (after one hour), [82]. ► An unpleasant sensation in
the stomach, extending backwards to the spinal column (after one hour), [71]. ► Sensation of emptiness and
faintness in the stomach, even breakfast, [72]. ► Sensation of warmth and fulness in the epigastric region, [27]. ► Sensation of
increased warmth and fulness in the stomach, [71]. ► *The stomach seems constantly icy cold, [51]. ► Feeling of disordered
stomach, with many eructations, tasting of undigested food (fifth day), [40]. ► Pain in the stomach, [45]. [420.] ► Pains in the stomach and abdomen, [66]. ► Pain in the epigastric
region; although the stomach feels swollen, this is not the case; it endures no pressure, so
that even light clothing is annoying (fifth day), [36].
► Pain over region of stomach, with nausea and frequent
vomiting; the pain gradually extended itself over the abdomen (after one hour), [82]. ► Great pain at
stomach (after three hours), [83]. ► Severe pain and tenderness over region of stomach, and
extending over bowels (after four hours), [82]. ► Violent pains in the stomach, [69].
► Violent pain in the stomach, in the morning, [30]. ► Violent pains in
the epigastrium (after ten hours), [67], [75]. ► Intolerable pain
in the epigastrium and in the whole of the abdomen, [77].
► Epigastrium painful, especially to pressure, [78]. [430.] ► Burning in the stomach after a quarter of an hour, continuing
for an hour; at last it seemed to spread upward along the sternum, [3]. ► Burning and heaviness in
the stomach, [61]. ►►
*Violent burning, in the epigastrium, [77]. ► *Violent burning and
pain in the stomach, [72]. ► Fulness of the stomach, as though she had eaten very much, [73]. ► Fulness of the
stomach, as if sensitive to the pressure of the clothes (fourth day), [44]. ► Fulness, tension, and
oppression in the epigastric region, especially while walking (third day), [44]. ► Severe tension in the
epigastric region, [3]. ►
Constriction in the stomach (after three-quarters of an hour), [71]. ► Cramp in the stomach, [45]. [440.] ► The stomach became spasmodically contracted when touched, [18]. ► Pressure in the
stomach, [12]. ►
Pressure in the stomach, after a light meal (third day), [33].
► Pressure and discomfort in the epigastric region (after
three-quarters of an hour), [71]. ► Slight pressure in the stomach, [39]. ► Slight pressure in the
stomach, extending into the left side of the abdomen (after half an hour), [39]. ► Pressive pain in the
stomach; in the evening, while walking (second day), [44].
► Oppression and violent pressure in the epigastric
region (after five hours), [17]. ►
Oppression and excessive pressure in the pit of the stomach, [65].
► Slight oppression in the pit of the stomach, [52]. [450.] ► Violent tearing pains in the stomach when he began to vomit
and purge (after one hour), [21]. ► Unpleasant sensation in the stomach, as if sore, [55]. ► Epigastric region
sensitive to pressure, [48], [80]. ► Epigastrium extremely
sensitive to pressure, [50]. ►
Epigastric region cannot endure the slightest touch, [51].
► Crawling in the stomach, [51].
► Crawling in the stomach on becoming erect, amounting
even to vomiting, [51].® 2000
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