Meadow Saffron (Liliaceae)
- Adapted to the rheumatic, gouty diathesis; persons of robust vigorous constitution; diseases of old people.
- External impressions, light, noise, strong odors, contact, bad manners, make him almost beside himself (Nux); his sufferings seem intolerable.
- Ailments: from grief or misdeeds of others (Staph.).
- Pains are drawing, tearing, pressing; light or superficial during warm weather; affect the bones and deeper tissues, when air is cold; pains go from left to right (Lach.).
- Smell painfully acute; nausea and faintness from the odor of cooking food, especially fish, eggs or fat meat (Ars., Sep.); bad effects from night watching (Coc.).
- Aversion to food; loathing even the sight of still more the smell of it.
- The abdomen is immensely distended with gas, feeling as if it would burst.
- Burning, or icy coldness in stomach and abdomen.
- Autumnal dysentery, discharges from bowels contain white shreddy particles in large quantities; white mucus; "scrapings of intestines" (Canth., Carb. ac.).
- Urine: dark, scanty or suppressed; in drops, with white sediment; bloody, brown, black, inky; contains clots of putrid decomposed blood, albumin, sugar.
- Affected parts very sensitive to contact and motion.
- Arthritic pains in joints; patient screams with pain on touching a joint or stubbing a toe.
Relations
- Compare: Bry. in rheumatic gout with serous effusions; in rheumatism in warm weather.
- Often cures in dropsy after Apis and Ars. fail.
Aggravation
- Mental emotion or exhaustion; effects of hard study; odor of cooking food.
- Motion: if the patient lies perfectly still, the disposition to vomit is less urgent. Every motion renew it (Bry.).
