Overview: Colchicine tablets, capsules, and liquid are used to reduce complications from coronary artery disease, treat Familial Mediterranean Fever, and treat or prevent gout attacks. The most ...

For FMF, you’ll typically take colchicine as a long-term treatment. Colchicine comes as tablets that you swallow. It also comes as capsules that you swallow. But this article only covers the ...

However, it’s not possible to accurately take a 0.5-mg or 1-mg dose of colchicine oral tablets. If you’re concerned about the colchicine dosage you’re prescribed, talk with your doctor.

Colchicine tablets contained 1 mg of the active drug. All tablets (colchicine and placebo) were identical in color, shape, and taste and were premarked to allow splitting into two equal parts.

“The need for drugs to go through the FDA approval process is clearly demonstrated by our review of oral colchicine tablets,” said Janet Woodcock, MD, Director of FDA,s Center for Drug Evaluat ...