Crocus sativus
Saffron crocus. · Plant · Iridaceae
The range of key symptoms for which Crocus is generally prescribed includes nervous excitement, alternating moods, sensation as if something is moving inside the abdomen, and hemorrhages with dark, clotted, stringy blood, usually in the form of nosebleeds or uterine bleeding.
Crocus is taken for rapidly alternating mental and physical states. The nervous system is overexcited, causing mood swings and hysterical, excited behavior. The feeling that something is moving inside the abdomen may be linked to general nervous hyperactivity. Hopping or jumping sensations may be felt inside the abdomen; these may be linked to a false pregnancy.
Key symptoms
- lassitude
- Eyes feel as if in smoke
- Fluor ac; Syph
- Obstinate constipation
- Sensation of something alive in abdomen, stomach, etc.
Worse (aggravation)
Better (amelioration)
Saffron (CROCUS SATIA)
Is a remedy often useful in hæmorrhages 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 too sharp 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 hæmorrhage is dark and stringy. Urging of blood to genitals. Menses dark, viscid, too frequent and copious, black and slimy. Uterine hæmorrhage; 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.
Crocus sativus. Saffron. N. O. Iridaceæ. Tincture of dried stigmas. Cooper makes a tincture of the fresh young shoots.
Clinical
Abortion, threatened. After-pains. Anger. Asthenopia. Blepharospasm. Brain, congestion of. Chorea. Dysmenia. Fainting. Gastric affections. Hæmoptysis. Hæmorrhages. Headache. Heart, affections of. Hysteria. Lachrymation. Laughter. Leucorrhœa. Mania. Menstruation, profuse. Metrorrhagia. Nose, bleeding of. Operations, effects of, Ophthalmia. Pregnancy, imaginary; affections of. Tumours. Ulceration. Wounds.
Characteristics
Crocus has three characteristics which clearly call for its use when met with. The first is hæmorrhage from various parts (nose, uterus, &c.), when the blood is black, viscid, clotting, forming itself into long black strings, hanging from the bleeding orifice. The second is a peculiar sensation as if something alive were moving about in the abdomen or chest. This may be a definite sensation, or it may be a hallucination or fixed idea. A curious circumstance in …
Saffron (Iridaccae)
Frequent and extreme changes in sensations; sudden, from the greatest hilarity to the deepest despondency (Ign., Nux m.). Excessively happy, affectionate, wants to kiss everybody; next moment in a rage. Haemorrhage from any part, blood black, viscid, clotted, forming into long black strings hanging from the bleeding surface (Elaps). Headache; during climacteric, throbbing, pulsating, < during two or three days of accustomed menstrual flow; nervous or menstrual headache before, during, or after flow (Lach., Lil., Sec.). Eyes: sensation, as if room were filled with smoke; as if had been weeping; as of cold wind blowing across the eyes; closing lids tightly gives >. Nosebleed: black, tenacious, stringy, every drop can be turned into a thread; with cold sweat in large drops on forehead (cold sweat, but wants to be fanned; with bright red blood, Carbo veg.); in children who develop too rapidly (Cal., Phos.). Dysmenorrhoea: flow black; stringy, clotted (Ust.). Sensation as if something …
Sight and Eyes
Sore burning in the eyes after reading; also dimness; must wink frequently and wipe the eyes as though a film were before the eyes.
Sight and Eyes
Feeling in the eyes as though she had wept violently; as though winter were constantly coming into the eyes.
Nose
Epistaxis of very thick black blood, with cold sweat on forehead, yellowish face, and fainting.
Stomach
Sensation as if something living were hopping about in the stomach.
Female Sexual Organs
Sensation of something alive in the womb or abdomen, rolling, bounding, or moving about.
Female Sexual Organs
Metorrhagia when the discharge is dark, black, viscid, stringy; smells badly, and is < on motion.
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Sensation as if something living were jumping about in the pit of the stomach and abdomen.
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Metrorrhagia of dark, viscid, stringy blood, in black clots, worse from slightest motion.
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