CROCUS SATIVUS

Saffron


  • Is a remedy often useful in hemorrhages 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 hemorrhage is dark and stringy. 
  • Urging of blood to genitals. 
  • Menses dark, viscid, too frequent and copious, black and slimy. 
  • Uterine hemorrhage; 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 twitching 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.