Materia Medica
Crocus Sativa
Saffron
Is a remedy often useful in hamorrhages that are black and stringy. Tingling in various parts. Chorea and hysterical affections. Frequent and extreme changes in sensations and mental conditions. Drowsi- ness and lassitude; better by literary labor.
Mind
Vacillating;: pleasant mania; sings s and laughs. I Happy and affectionate; then angry. Sudden changes from hilarity to melancholy. Vivid recollec- tion 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 cves as after ziolent weeping. Sensation as if she had been looking through too sharp spectacles. Eyes feel 279 as if in smoke. Ciliary neuralgia, pain from eyes to top of head. Sensation as if cold air was rushing through eye. [Fluor. ac.; Syph.] Asthenopia with ex- trem photophobia.
Nose
Epistaxis.
Stomach
Obstinate constipation due to portal stag- mation. Constipation in infants. Crawling and stitches in anus. Sensotion of something alive in abdomen, stomach, etc., especially on left side. [Calend.]
Female
Sensation of soncthing alive and moving in stomach and in the abdomen, which is swoilen, or of something dead and heavy. Threatened abortion, es- pecially when hamorrhage is dark and stringy. Urg- ing of blood to genitals. Menses dark, viscid, too fre- quent and copious, black and slimy. Uterine haemor- rhage; clots with long strings; worse from least move- ment. 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 couign, with frothy expectora- tion, containing threads Jike fine wine; worse, lying down. Breath has offensive, sickly smell. Feeling as if the uvula is elongated in hysterical patients. Hamorrhages.-- Dark, stringy, clotted. Epistaxis; strings of dark blood hanging down the nose. Bloody urine.
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 falls asleep.
Modalities
Worse, lying down, hot weather, warm room, in morning, fasting, before breakfast, looking fxedly at an object. Better, in open air.
Relationships
Antidote: Opium; Bcll. Compare: Ipec.; Trillium; Plat.; China; Sabina.
Dose
Tincture, to thirtieth attentuation.