Crocus sativus

Rapidly changing or alternating symptoms; of opposite moods; of sides; of mind and body, etc. Single muscles twitch; upper eyelids, etc. Faint, drowsy and hysterical. Chorea. Jumping about, as of something alive internally. HÆMORRHAGE, dark, stringy, tough. .................... Impressionable, affectionate and moody. Involuntary laughter and weeping; < music. Hysteria. Climacteric hemicrania; instead of menses; > pressure. Dry, burning eyes, as after weeping, or as if in a cool wind. Winks or must close eyes tightly. Lachrymation when reading. Nosebleed, with faintness and cold sweat on forehead; of young girls. Sexual excitement. Dark, foul, stringy menses. Threatened abortion. Narcotic sleep. Singing during sleep.

Motion. Puberty. Pregnancy. Reading. Heat.

Open air.

MIND. NERVES. Eyes. Circulation. Female organs.

Related: Ign. Tarn.

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

Vacillating; pleasant mania; sings and laughs. Happy and affectionate; then angry. Sudden changes from hilarity to melancholy. Vivid recollection from music heard (Lyc).

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.

Worse, lying down, hot weather, warm room, in morning, fasting,

before breakfast, looking fixedly at an object. Better, in open air.

Throbs, pulsates, during climacteric; worse during menses.

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.

Epistaxis. Dark, stringy, clotted. Strings of dark blood hanging down the nose.

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.

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.

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.

Sudden feeling of coldness in back as if cold water were thrown over him; icy-cold 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.

Antidote: Opium; Bell. Compare: Ipec; Trillium; Plat; China; Sabina.

Tincture, to thirtieth attenuation.