मुख्य रूप से फॉल-ब्लूमिंग बारहमासी अलंकार जड़ी बूटियों; कभी-कभी परिवार colchiceceae में रखा गया

colchicum's Usage Examples:

These assertions, and the total inadequacy of the pharmacology of colchicum, as above detailed, to explain its specific therapeutic property, show that the secret of colchicum is as yet undiscovered.

In larger doses colchicum or colchicine acts as a most violent gastrointestinal irritant, causing terrible pain, colic,vomiting, diarrhoea, haemorrhage from the bowel, thirst and ultimately death from collapse.

Taken internally, colchicum or colchicine markedly increases the amount of bile poured into the alimentary canal, being amongst the most powerful of known cholagogues.

Colchicum or colchicine, when applied to the skin, acts as a powerful irritant, causing local pain and congestion.

The official dose of powdered colchicum is 2 to 5 grains, which may be given in a cachet.

The chief constituents of colchicum are two alkaloids, colchicine and veratrine.

As a specific for gout colchicum was early employed by the Arabs; and the preparation known as eau medicinale, much resorted to in the 18th century for the cure of gout, owes its therapeutic virtues to colchicum; but general attention was first directed by Sir Everard Home to the use of the drug in gout.

Colchicum was known to the Greeks under the name of KoXXucov, from KoXXIs, or Colchis, a country in which the plant grew; and it is described by Dioscorides as a poison.

COLCHICUM, the Meadow Saffron, or Autumn Crocus (Colchicum autumnale), a perennial plant of the natural order Liliaceae, found wild in rich moist meadow-land in England and Ireland, in middle and southern Europe, and in the Swiss Alps.

In the 6th century Alexander of Tralles used colchicum for gout, iron for anaemia, and rhubarb in liver weakness and dysentery.

colchicum's Meaning':

chiefly fall-blooming perennial cormous herbs; sometimes placed in family Colchicaceae