Colchicum

Characteristic symptoms

Sudden tearing or stitching pains even through the periosteum, with lameness of the affected parts ; aggravations of the pains by mental excitement, especially in the night and evening, frequently driving one to despair ; tearing of the limbs in warm weather and stitches in cold weather; sensitiveness of the body to contact ; lameness of the kneejoints, causing them to give way ; creeping as if frozen, especially when the weather changes ; cedematous and dropsical swellings ; nightly heat with great thirst ; headache from mental exertion ; alopecia ; otorrhœa with tearing ; sense of smell morbidly increased ; yellow spots in the face ; bloated face ; increased secretion of saliva; nausea, even from the mere smell of broth and eggs; burning or sensation of icy coldness in the stomach ; dysen teric stools of white mucus or membranous substances, with tenesmus ; constipation with unsuccessful urging ; brown dark urine.