Posts Tagged Colchicine

Gout is a disease that medical science obsessed over for, well, since medical science came into being.  Only in the last fifty years has gout become a “forgotten” disease.  Through this long and amazing history, gout has had a more or less faithful companion: the autumn crocus flower.  It’s from the bulb of this flower that colchicine comes.

Some reports say that colchicine has been in use for over 6000 years while other reports say its a much newer drug that has only been in use for 2000 years.  Regardless, it is still considered to be a first line drug by many doctors.  Unfortunately, those doctors are grossly out-of-date.  Not only in using colchicine first, but also in how they use it…

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