Crocus

Crocus
(saffron)
* Is a remedy often useful in haemorrhages that are black and stringy.
* Tingling in various parts.
* Chorea and hysterical affections.
* Frequent and extreme changes in sensations and mental conditions.
* Anger with violence followed by repentance, Laughing mania.
* Drowsiness and lassitude; better by literary labor.
Mind
- Vacillating; pleasant mania; sings and laughs.
- Happy and affectionate; then angry.
- Sudden changes from hilarity to melancholy.
- Vivid recollection from music heard. [Lyc.]
Head
- Throbs, pulsates, during climacteric; worse during menses.
Eyes
- Appearance as of electric sparks.
- Must wipe eyes as if mucus or water were in them.
- Feeling in eyes as after violent weeping.
- Sensation as if she had been looking through toosharp spectacles.
- Eyes feel as if in smoke.
- Pupils enlarged and react slowly.
- Lids heavy.
- Ciliary neuralgia, pain from eyes to top of head.
- Sensation as if cold air was rushing through eye. [Fluor. ac.; Syph.] Asthenopia with
extreme photophobia.
- Threatened glaucoma; embolism of arteria centralis retinal.
Nose
- Epistaxis.
- Dark, stringy, clotted. Strings of dark blood hanging down the nose.
Abdomen
- Obstinate constipation due to portal stagnation.
- Constipation in infants.
- Crawling and stitches in anus.
- Sensation of something alive in abdomen, stomach, etc., especially on left side. [Calend.]
- Abdomen swollen, feeling of something heavy.
Female
- Threatened abortion, especially when haemorrhageis dark and stringy.
- Urging of blood to genitals.
- Menses dark, viscid, too frequent and copious, black and slimy.
- Uterine haemorrhage; clots with long strings; worse from least movement.
- Jerking pain in interior of left breast, as if drawn toward back by means of thread. [Crot.
tig.]
- A bounding feeling, as if something alive in right breast.
Respiratory
- Wheezy cough, with frothy expectoration, containing threads like fine twine; worse, lying
down.
- Breath has offensive, sickly smell.
- Feeling as if the uvula is elongated in hysterical patients.
Back
- Sudden feeling of coldness in back as if cold water were thrown over him; icy-cold
extremities.
Extremities
- Spasmodic contractions and twitchings of single set of muscles.
- Chorea and hysteria, with great alterations of feeling.
- Whole upper extremity fall asleep.
- Cracking in hip-joint and knees.
- Weakness in knees and legs.
- Pain in ankles and soles.
Modalities
- Worse, lying down, hot weather, warm room, in morning, fasting, before breakfast, looking
fixedly at an object.
- Better, in open air.
Relationship
- Antidote : Opium; Bell.
- Compare : Ipec.; Trillium; Plat.; China; Sabina.
Dose
- Tincture, to thirtieth attenuation.