Crocus sativus

Crocus sativus

Saffron. Iridaceae.

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; the 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 tzuo or three days of accustomed menstrual flow; nervous or menstrual headache before, during, or after flow (Each., Lib, Sep.).

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 >.

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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 alive were moving in the stomach, abdomen, uterus, arms or other parts of the body (Sab., Thuja, Sulph.) ; with nausea and faintness.

Chorea and hysteria with great hilarity, singing and dancing (Tar.) ; alternating with melancholy and rage.

Spasmodic contractions and twitchings of single sets of muscles (Agar., Ign., Zinc.).

Relation. — Nux, Puls, or Sulph. follow Crocus well in nearly all complaints.

Compare: In menstrual derangements (Ust.T