Crocus Sativus croc.

MIND. NERVES. Eyes. Circulation. Female organs.

Motion. Puberty. Pregnancy. Reading. Heat.

Open air.

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.

Related: Ign. Tarn.

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; 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 two or three days of accustomed menstrual flow; nervous or menstrual headache before, during, or after flow (Lach., Lil., Sec.). 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 >. 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.).

Nux, Puls. or Sulph. follow Crocus well in nearly all complaints. Compare: In menstrual derangements (Ust.).

Always think of this remedy on seeing dark, stringy blood; e.g., in epistaxis, where there are strings of dark blood hanging down from the nose; also in uterine hæmorrhage or hæmoptysis where the blood is dark and string-like, or on raising a clot of the blood, long strings droop from it.

Female: Greatly used in female complaints. Sensation of something living and moving in the abdomen; abdomen swollen. (The last two symptoms are common to either sex; but when occurring in females, as they often do at the change of life and at other times, they may lead to the erroneous idea of pregnancy.) Threatened abortion, especially where there is a hæmorrhage of dark, stringy blood. Menstrual blood dark, viscid.

Heartburn. Sensation of fatigue; as of something living (large in size) in inner parts; of motion in inner parts; as if single parts were gone to sleep; of qualmishness.

Symptoms generally appear on the left side. Mist before the eyes: Epistaxis; dark, stringy blood from the nose; mucous blood from the same. Cough with bloody (dark) expectoration. Desire for open air. Yawning in general, drowsiness; somnolency; sleepiness in daytime generally.

In the morning; fasting before breakfast; affections of females particularly; looking fixedly at an object (can't even thread a needle); during pregnancy; in the house.

In the open air; after breakfast.

Nux vom., Pulsat., Sulphur.

Opium.

Sensation as if something living were jumping about in the pit of the stomach and abdomen. Metrorrhagia of dark, viscid, stringy blood, in black clots, worse from slightest motion.

Saffron (CROCUS SATIA)

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.

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

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.

Worse, lying down, hot weather, warm room, in morning, fasting, before breakfast, looking fixedly at an object. Better, in open air.

Antidote: Opium; Bell.

Compare: Ipec; Trillium; Plat; China; Sabina.

Tincture, to thirtieth attenuation.

Spasmodic contractions and twitchings of single sets of muscles.

Hæmorrhages from different parts; blood black, viscid, clotted, forming into long black strings, from the bleeding orifice.

Changeable disposition; laughs, sings, jumps, wants to kiss everybody, or again cries, gets mad, abuses everybody, etc.

Sensation as of something hopping or moving about in stomach, abdomen, uterus or chest.

This remedy has three different spheres of usefulness in homœopathic therapeutics.

1st. In hæmorrhages from different parts. The blood is black, viscid, clotted, and forming itself into long black strings from the bleeding orifice. It makes no difference whether from the nose, uterus, lungs or stomach, if the blood is of this nature Crocus must be given. (Mercur. sol., the blood hangs from the nose like an icicle).

2d. In hysterical conditions in which there is great changeableness of the mental symptoms.

The patient is alternately cheerful or depressed. In the former state she will sing, dance, jump, laugh and whistle, love and want to kiss everybody. In the latter she will cry, get into a rage, abuse her friends, and then repent it, etc.

Crocus, for these alternate mental states, resembles Aconite, Ignatia and Nux moschata, but with Crocus there is another peculiar and persistent symptom, viz., sensation as of something morning, or hopping about in the stomach, abdomen, uterus or chest. Often this sensation of movement is so positive that the patient mistakes it for the movement of a fœtus, and is sure she is in a family way. If the mind symptoms above described are present, don't be too ready to promise a baby, but give a dose of Crocus and await developments.

3d. Crocus is one of our remedies for chronic affections. There are twitchings of single sets of muscles (Ignatia and Zinc.), twitchings of eyelids especially. These twitchings are very common in hysterical subjects, and there are many remedies for them, so that one could not of course prescribe on that alone. There are, however, remedies which are suited to hysteria and also other nervous disease, in which twitchings are very prominent and Crocus is one of them.

Gaiety ; uncommon mirth and cheerfulness ; witty ; joking loquacious. Sings involuntarily, and then laughs. Immoderate, improper laughter ; changeable disposition.

Vertigo when raising the head, with heat of the whole body. Great forgetfulness ; loses his ideas when he undertakes to write them down. Giddiness, as if intoxicated, in the forehead ; in the room, but not in the open air. Giddiness, with fainting. Pulsating pains in one side of the head (left), extending into the eye. Pain in the forehead in the evening by candle-light, with burning and pressure in the eyes. Sudden shock in the forehead and temples. Sensation, when moving the head, as if the brain were loose, and were tottering to and fro.

Twitching of the eyelids ; twitching and itching of the upper eyelids. Nightly spasms of the lids. Inclination to wink and to wipe the eyes, as if a pellicle of gum were drawn over them. When reading (in the evening) sees as through a gauze. Dilatation of the pupils. When reading, the white paper is pale-red. Sudden flashes before the eyes like electric sparks (during the day). A quantity of tears rush from the dim eyes as soon as he begins to read. Lachrymation in the room ; not in the open air. Heating and lancinating pains in the eyes after surgical operations.

Humming and roaring in the ears, with hardness of hearing ; worse on stooping.

Discharge from the nose (one nostril at a time) of tenacious, thick, dark-black blood, with cold perspiration on the forehead.

Livid complexion. Circumscribed, burning red spots in the face. Alternate redness and paleness of the face. Red, hot face. Lips cracked.

White-coated tongue (better after breakfast) ; the papillæ are very much erect. Unusual warmth in the mouth. Scraping in the throat in the evening before and after, but not during the time he takes his food. Sensation in the œsophagus as from a plug. Sensation as if the uvula had been elongated, during and after deglutition.

Thirst in the evening. Nausea, disappearing in the open air. Heartburn after eating. Bloated abdomen. Sensation as if something living were hopping about in the stomach, abdomen, pit of the stomach (arms and other parts of the body). Distention of the stomach and abdomen (the stomach feels distended in the morning before eating anything). Sensation of heaviness in the abdomen, with pressing towards the uterus.

Creeping in the anus, as from ascarides. Stitches and itching at the anus (stitch extending from the anus through the small of the back into the left groin, increasing during an inspiration).

Men. Excitement of the sexual desire. Women. Menstruation too early and too profuse. Hæmorrhage from the uterus (during the least movement) ; blood viscid, black, smelling badly (miscarriage third month).

Oppression of the chest, with the desire to draw a long breath ; relieved by yawning. Disagreeably-smelling breath. Violent, dry cough, from irritation in the pharynx ; relieved by pressing with the hand on the pit of the stomach. Cough, with spitting of blood. Great feeling of emptiness in the pit of the stomach. Sensation as if something living were hopping in the chest.

Sensation of coldness in the back. Swelling of the neck.

Upper. In the shoulder-joint sensation as if the head of the humerus were loose ; cracking. Sensation as if the arms and hands were gone to sleep. The arms (forearm) feel heavy, as if bruised. Burning-tingling and tension in the tips of the fingers. Chilblains on the hands and fingers. Lower. Violent cracking of the hip-joint of the knee-joint (when stooping). Great sensation of weariness in the knee-joints and lower legs. Chilblains on the toes. The soles of the feet ache from standing.

Continuous yawning and desire to sleep. Sleepiness after each meal ; somnolency. Sings while sleeping.

Sensation as if something living were hopping and jumping in the body. Tingling in different parts of the body. Hæmorrhages from various organs (blood black, viscid). St. Vitus' dance (every seven days, with singing, dancing, laughing and singing). Some limbs go to sleep (at night).

Pulse accelerated ; feverish. Chill in the afternoon, growing worse in the evening, with chilliness extending from the back into the legs, with trembling. During the chill (and heat), thirst. Chilliness ; only the back part of the body. Flushes of internal heat, with pricking and tingling of the skin. Heat, mostly of the head and face, with paleness of the cheeks and thirst. Perspiration very little, and only at night ; cold and debilitating. Perspiration only on the lower part of the body.

Scarlet redness of the whole body. Painful suppuration of bruised parts (old cicatrized wounds ; open again, and suppurate). Chilblains.

Especially suitable for women. Frequent and great changes in the sensations ; the feelings changing suddenly from the greatest hilarity to the deepest despondency. Aggravation, in the morning early (while fasting), (lassitude, debility). Amelioration, in the cool, open air.

Crocus sativus. Saffron. N. O. Iridaceæ. Tincture of dried stigmas. Cooper makes a tincture of the fresh young shoots.

Abortion, threatened. After-pains. Anger . Asthenopia. Blepharospasm. Brain, congestion of. Chorea. Dysmenia. Fainting. Gastric affections. Hæmoptysis. Hæmorrhages. Headache. Heart, affections of. Hysteria. Lachrymation. Laughter . Leucorrhœa. Mania. Menstruation, profuse . Metrorrhagia. Nose, bleeding of . Operations, effects of, Ophthalmia. Pregnancy, imaginary; affections of. Tumours. Ulceration. Wounds.

Crocus has three characteristics which clearly call for its use when met with. The first is hæmorrhage from various parts (nose, uterus, &c.), when the blood is black, viscid, clotting, forming itself into long black strings, hanging from the bleeding orifice. The second is a peculiar sensation as if something alive were moving about in the abdomen or chest. This may be a definite sensation, or it may be a hallucination or fixed idea. A curious circumstance in this connection is the fact that Crocus has often been successfully given to pregnant women who have complained of violent fœtal movements, as well as in cases of imaginary pregnancy. The remaining characteristic is in the mental sphere. It is a rapid alternation of mental conditions: anger with violence rapidly followed by repentance; laughter quickly followed by tears. I once cured with a few doses of Crocus a young artist who had become subject to violent outbursts of rage in which he would take up a knife to throw at his mother, with whom he lived, and almost immediately after would be abjectly repentant. The household was on the point of being broken up when the trouble was completely removed by Crocus . Uncontrollable laughter is also in the Crocus symptomatology. Hysterical laughter is one of the effects observed by the older physicians. Teste cites from Murray the case of several children "who were seized with an extraordinary laughing mania, from having smelled of leather bottles that had contained essence of saffron." On one occasion, in hospital, I happened to see a young girl who was really desperately ill with heart failure and valvular disease, in a fit of hysterical laughter. This made me think of Crocus . The only definite sensation she complained of in the heart region was a "jumping" sensation. Crocus 30 was given, and very soon she was able to lie down flat (after having been propped up for weeks), and from that time she made a rapid recovery. Another Crocus symptom is: Sensitive to music, involuntarily joins in on hearing any one sing. Stitches, shocks, throbbings, broad thrusts, cuttings and jerkings are among the commoner sensations. Twitchings of single sets of muscles (chorea). A warm sensation ascending to the heart, impeding breathing and > by yawning is a peculiar symptom. Tingling, crawling, pricking and itching are met with in the skin. Scarlet redness of the whole body, or scarlet spots on skin. (It is a domestic remedy for "bringing out" the eruption of measles.) Painful suppuration of bruised parts; old cicatrised wounds re-open and suppurate. Lipoma and encephaloma of scalp. Tumours with ulceration and characteristic bleeding. The reputation of Crocus in the cure of tumours is also an old one. It was used externally "to scatter indolent tumours and ecchymoses." Cooper has given it new confirmation. He has given it in single doses of the Ø tincture in a case of malignant disease of the side following extirpation of cancerous kidney, with the result of arrest of progress after an initial aggravation, and complete relief of pain. The patient was a woman, who had formerly had hæmorrhage with dark clots at the periods and feeling of weight towards womb. She had had also the sensation of something moving in the abdomen. Cooper agrees with Culpepper in thinking Croc . very similar to Calend . in its action. It is a vulnerary and corresponds to the effects of blows (deafness; tumours, &c.). Crocus is especially suited to women and hysterical men. The symptoms are < fasting; evening and night; during new and full moon; looking fixedly at an object; during pregnancy; in a hot room; in hot weather. > By yawning (desire to take a long breath, > by yawning); in open air (for which there is craving); after breakfast. Great thirst for cold drinks.

Crocus should be studied along with the other Iridaceæ, the Alliaceæ and the Liliaceæ. It is antidoted by: Acon., Bell., Op. Compatible: Chi., Nux, Puls., Sul. Compare: Plat. in dark or black clotted flow; Croton (pain through left chest to back); Staph. ( > by yawning); Fluor. ac. (sensation of cold wind blowing across eyes); Codein (twitching of muscles, especially of eyeballs); Lach. (pains in eye to top of head); Tarent. (contractions of single groups of muscles); Calc., Ipec., Ign. Tarent. (hysteria hearing music wants to join in. — In Tarent. music subsequently > in Croc. it does not). Wants to jump (Tarent., Stram., Sticta, Asar., Agar.); wants to kiss, Agar. In miscarriage at third month, Sabi., Kreas. In violent movements of fœtus, Op., Sil., Thu., Sul.; in heat in heart, Rhod., Lachn., Op.

Great tendency to sadness, sometimes alternating with great gaiety and joyousness. — Great inclination to laugh, to jest, and to sing, sometimes with excessive weakness. — Loquacious. — Sings involuntarily, and then laughs. — Immoderate, improper laughter; changeable disposition. — Frolic-some and jesting mania, with paleness of face, headache, and obscuration of the eyes. — Abandonment of free will. — Choleric passion and violence, frequently followed by prompt repentance. — Alternate austerity and mildness of character. — Forgetfulness and distraction. — Quickness of memory.

Stupefying cephalalgia, as during intoxication, with downcast eyes. — Giddiness, as if intoxicated, in the forehead; in the room, but not in the open air. — Vertigo, with fainting. — Confused vertigo on rising from a reclining posture. — Vertigo when raising the head, with heat of the whole body. — Cephalalgia above the eyes, with burning pain, sensation of burning and aching in the eyes, esp. in the evening, by candle-light. — Head heavy in the morning, with aching at the vertex. — Drawing pain in the forehead, with nausea. — Semi-lateral pulsation in the head, and in the face (l. side, extending into the eye). — Blows in the forehead and the temples. — Sensation of looseness of the brain, during movement (as if it were tottering to and fro).

Itching in the eyelids. — Tingling in the eyebrows. — Pressure, pain as from excoriation, and sensation of burning in the eyes, and in the eyelids, esp. on closing them, and or, reading, or in the evening by candle-light. — Sensation of swelling in the eyes, as from much weeping. — Dryness of the eyes. — Lachrymation on reading. — A quantity of tears rush from the dim eyes as soon as he begins to read. — Lachrymation in the room; not in the open air. — Heating and lancinating pains in the eyes after surgical operations. — Nocturnal agglutination of the eyelids. — Visible quivering of the eyelids. — Heaviness and cramp-like contractions of the eyelids. — Nocturnal cramps in the eyelids. — Constant winking of the eyes (inclination to wipe the eyes, as if a pellicle of gum were drawn over them). — Pupils dilated. — Constant necessity to rub the eyes. — Confused sight, as when looking through a veil, esp. in the evening, when reading by candlelight. — When reading, the white paper seems of a pale rose colour. — Sparkling before the eyes. — Sudden flashes like electric sparks (during the day).

Otalgia, similar to a cramp. — Tinkling in the ears, in the evening, after lying down. — Buzzing in the ears with hardness of hearing, esp. on stooping.

Epistaxis of black and viscid blood, often only from one nostril at a time; with cold perspiration on the forehead, and occasional fainting. — Violent and frequent sneezing.

Face of an earthy colour. — Redness and paleness, alternately, in the face. — Circumscribed, burning red spots on the face. — Burning heat in the face, esp. in the morning. — Lips cracked and ulcerated. — Pulsation on one side of the face.

Scraping and roughness in the mouth. — Accumulation of water in the mouth. — Tongue moist, and charged with a white coating, with erection of the papillæ. — Unusual warmth in the mouth.

Sore throat as if caused by elongation of the uvula, or as if there were a plug in the throat, during deglutition, and at other times. — Scraping and roughness in the throat (in the evening before and after, but not during the time he takes his food).

Nauseating, acid, sweetish taste. — Nausea, disappearing in the open air. — Sweet or bitter taste in the bottom of the gullet. — Constant thirst in the evening, with uneasiness in the abdomen after drinking. — Absence of appetite, with sensation off fulness, however little be eaten.

Empty risings, while fasting in the morning. — Pyrosis after eating with a good appetite. — Heartburn after eating. — Qualmishness, uneasiness, and sensation of oppression, in the epigastrium. — Burning pain in the stomach. — Borborygmi, and fermentation in the epigastrium. — Great sinking sensation at epigastrium. — Drawing in the pit of the stomach, back and forth, and up and down. — Some violent stitches in pit of stomach.

Abdomen inflated, with sensation of fulness. — Distension of the stomach and abdomen (the stomach feels distended in the morning before eating anything). — Cramp-like pains in the abdomen. — Pinchings in the abdomen after drinking (water). — Pains in the abdomen from taking cold. — Movements in the abdomen, stomach, pit of the stomach, arms, and other parts of the body, as of something alive hopping about. — Shocks above l. hypochondrium. — Sensation of heaviness in the inguinal region. — Sensation of heaviness in the abdomen, with pressing towards the uterus.

Itching and tingling in the anus. — Creeping in the anus, as from ascarides. — Obtuse shooting in the side, and above the anus. — Stitches and itching at the anus (stitch extending from the anus through the small of the back into the left groin, increasing during an inspiration).

Excitement of the sexual desire.

Sensation of something living and moving in the abdomen; abdomen swollen; (these symptoms, when occurring in females, as they often do at the change of life and at other times, may lead to the erroneous idea of pregnancy). — Urging of blood towards the genital parts, as if the menses were commencing. — Catamenia too frequent and copious. — Catamenia painful. — Metrorrhagia of black and slimy blood. — Flow of blood, during the new and full moon. — Hæmorrhage from the uterus (during the least movement); blood viscid, black, smelling badly (miscarriage third month). — Threatened abortion, esp. where there is a hæmorrhage of dark, stringy blood. — Post-partum hæmorrhage.

Violent dry, shaking cough, much mitigated by passing the hand over the epigastrium. — Cough, with spitting of blood. — Disagreeably smelling breath. — Difficulty of respiration. — Inclination to breathe deeply, occasioned by a sensation of heaviness about the heart. — Oppression of the chest, with desire to draw a long breath; > by yawning. — On breathing, a sensation is felt as from the vapour of sulphur in the throat.

Shootings in the chest and esp. in the sides. — Movements, as if something alive were hopping in the chest. — Shocks in the chest, which suspend respiration. — Peculiar jerking pains in interior of l. breast (chest) as if drawn towards the back by a thread.

Sensation of heat, which ascends to the heart, with anxiety and difficulty of respiration, mitigated by yawnings. — Sensation of heaviness at the heart. — Sensation of great emptiness in precordial region. — Drawing in precordial region extending to stomach. — Stitches beneath heart, < on inspiration. — Frequent palpitation. — Anxiety at heart, with sense of weakness extending thence through abdomen to soles of feet.

Sensation of stiffness in the neck during movement. — External swelling of the neck. — Pulling in the loins, with pains in the groins. — Sensation of coldness in the back.

Pain in the shoulder-joint, on moving the arms, as if it were out of joint, or on the point of being dislocated; cracking. — Numbness of the arms and of the hands, with immobility, esp. at night, during sleep. — Digging pulling in the forearms. — Heaviness and pain, as from a bruise in the forearms, after any slight movement of them. — Burning pricking, and tension in the tips of the fingers, as from stagnation of the blood, after a walk in the open air. — Chilblains in the hands, and in the fingers.

Sensation of weakness in the thighs, when seated. — Violent cracking of the hip-joint, of the knee-joint (when stooping). — Nocturnal tearing in the leg, with uneasiness in that part. — Pain, as from a bruise, in the calves of the legs. — Fatigue in the soles of the feet (from standing), with burning pain and tingling. — Chilblains on the toes.

Movements, as of something alive (hopping and jumping) in various parts of the body. — Tingling in different parts of the body. — Convulsive attacks, like chorea (every seven days), with laughter, dancing and leaping, alternately with violent paroxysms of whooping-cough. — Sensation of relaxation and bending in the joints. — Numbness of some of the limbs, at night, during sleep. — Amelioration of symptoms in the open air; several of them appear at night , and are generally aggravated in the morning . — Ebullition of blood, sometimes throughout the body. — Discharge of a black viscid blood from different organs. — Epistaxis. — Dark stringy blood from the nose; mucous blood from the same. — Cough with bloody (dark) expectoration. — Heaviness and failing of the limbs, after light exercise. — Striking alternation of the most opposite, physical, and mental symptoms. — Symptoms generally appear on the l. side. — Excessive general weakness, with fainting fits, during movement. — Desire for open air. — Great depression in the morning. — Trembling of all the limbs.

Pricking, crawling, burning, and tingling in skin. — Red (scarlet) colour of the body. — Chilblains. — Suppuration, painful, of old wounds (old cicatrised wounds open again and suppurate).

Continuous yawning and desire to sleep. — Great inclination to sleep in the day, esp. after a meal, sometimes in the evening. — Sings while sleeping. — Drowsiness, with eyes dull and glassy. — Cries, and starts, while sleeping. — Frightful, or gay and pleasant dreams.

Pulse accelerated; feverish. — Chill in the afternoon, growing worse in the evening, with chilliness extending from the back into the legs, with trembling. — During the chill (and heat), thirst. — Chilliness, only of the back part of the body. — Flushes of internal heat, with pricking and tingling of the skin. — Heat, mostly of the head and face, with paleness of the cheeks and thirst. — Perspiration very little, and only at night; cold and debilitating. — Perspiration only on the lower part of the body.

Child sits or stands up in bed making various quick movements without being conscious of what he is doing ; this is followed by a short interval of quietness, in which he may regain consciousness, but without any knowledge of what has passed ; this
remission followed by another attack, and so on ; febrile condition with congestion to head ; eyes fixed and bright ; redness and heat of face ; urine pale and scant ; desires neither food nor drink.
On attempting to write something down, cannot, on account of loss of recollection.
Greatly concerned about his life, believes that he will die, is no longer fit for business. θ Epistaxis.
Extravagant ideas and great loquacity.
Sings involuntarily, on hearing even a single note sung ; laughs at herself, but soon sings again in spite of her determination to stop.
Jumping, dancing, laughing, whistling ; very affectionate, wants to kiss everybody.
Gayety ; uncommon mirth and cheerfulness ; witty.
Changeable disposition, depression and hilarity.
Alternations of excessive happy affectionate tenderness and rage.
Restless, anxious, sorrowful mood ; deep melancholy.
Excessive timidity.
Vexation, contradicted by bursts of laughter.
He takes everything in anger and suddenly repents of having injured others.
Great ill humor ; behavior of relatives and friends excites her to anger, and she is at the point of permitting an outbreak of passion towards them, but at this moment she feels calm ; at next moment this calmness seems a weakness ; she is vexed with herself, and her anger
becomes greater than ever ; this very unusual vacillation of mood lasts several hours.

Giddiness with fainting.
Vertigo : as if intoxicated, in forehead ; in room, but not in open air ; with confusion ; and heat of whole body ; staggering and giddiness when raising head after lying down at night.
Congestion of head, with nosebleed.

Sudden shock in forehead and temples.
Pain in forehead in evening by candlelight, with burning and pressure in eyes.
Sudden broad thrust in right temple, extending deep into brain, causing him to start ; above left frontal eminence, extending deep into brain.
Pulsating pains in left side of head extending into eye.
Sudden cold sensation on left parietal bone, as if a drop of cold water had fallen on it.
When moving head, sensation as if brain was loose.
Congestion of head ; violent throbbing.
Nervous or menstrual headache.
Headache during climacteric period with throbbing, pulsating pains in various parts of head, pressure in eyes, dilatation of vessels of head and of other parts of body ; < during period in which she was accustomed to have menstrual flow, pain continuing
at that time two or three days without remission, preventing sleep.

Vertigo when raising head, with heat of body.

Eyes fixed and shining. θ Cerebral disturbance.
Sudden flashes before eyes like electric sparks.
Appearance of a spot jumping up and down before sight.
On reading, the paper looks pale red or rose color, shines.
The light seems dim, as if obscured by a veil.
Acute tearing pain in head and right eye, with dimness of vision, and a sensation as if cold air was rushing through eye.
Sore burning in eyes after reading awhile ; also dimness, must wink frequently.
Pupils much dilated.
Pain in eye to top of head, pain in left eye darting to right ; sensation of cold wind blowing across eyes. θ Sclero-choroiditis post. θ Asthenopia.
A few moments' use of eyes causes feeling in them as if room was filled with smoke ; feeling of dryness and burning, very soon succeeded by lachrymation ; pressure on closed lids relieves somewhat.
Feeling in eyes as if she had been violently weeping, with corresponding appearance of weeping ; beginning in left and extending to right eye ; feeling of something alive and moving in abdomen (r. side). θ Conjunctivitis.
Feeling as though water was constantly coming into eyes, only in room.
Sensation as if she had been looking through too sharp spectacles.
Feeling as of biting smoke in eyes.
Worse from looking fixedly at an object, cannot even thread a needle.
Ophthalmia menstrual in patients of a sanguine temperament, subject to attacks of congestion and inclination to spasms (hysterical) at climacteric period.
Extreme photophobia and most copious lachrymation ; impossible to read without a torrent of tears inundating eyes, so that light gets confused and veiled.
Lachrymation in room ; not in open air.
Constant winking, with tearful suffusion of eyes.
Must wink and wipe eyes frequently, as though a film of mucus was over them.
Twitching of eyelids.
Jerking, twitching and itching in upper lid.
Nightly spasms of lids.
Sensation as if eyelids were swollen.
Inclined to press lids tightly together from time to time.
Heating and lancinating pains in eyes after surgical operations.

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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.

Hemorrhage from any part, blood black, viscid, clotted, forming into long black strings hanging from the bleeding surface (Elaps).

Headache: during climacteric, throbbing, pulsating, < during two or three days of accustomed menstrual flow; nervous or menstrual headache before, during or after the flow (Lach., Lil., 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 >.

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 v.); in children who develop too rapidly (Cal., Phos.).

Dysmenorrhœa: 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, Sul.); 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.).

Nux, Puls. or Sul. follows Crocus well in nearly all complaints; in menstrual derangements (Ust.).

Compare: Tub., Staph., which have many symptoms in common.

Motion (hemorrhage).

Open air (all symptoms).

Afternoon; < towards evening.

With thirst (Dul.); in the afternoon, increasing towards evening; with shivering from the back down the legs (Dul., Staph.); < by drinking.

With thirst (Staph.); internal flushes with pricking and crawling in the skin; of head and face, with pale cheeks. Violent heat over whole body, < in the head, with intense redness of face and distension of blood vessels (Cinch., Cham.); great thirst without much dryness of mouth.

Scanty; only on lower half of body; or only at night, then cold and debilitating.

“Croc., Dul. and Staph. may be compared.

All have chill beginning in back.

Croc. and Dul. have thirst with chill, Staph. has not.

Croc. and Staph. have great thirst with heat, which is slight or wanting with Dul.

Dul. and Staph. have frequent urination in chill, Croc. has not.

Dul. alone has nausea and involuntary urine during chill

With Croc. alone the chill is < by drinking.

Dul., has chill < in a warm room.”—GEO. H. CLARK, M. D.

On attempting to write something down, cannot, on account of loss of recollection.
Signs involuntarily, on hearing even a single note sung, laughs at herself; but soon signs again in spite of her determination to stop.
Changeable disposition: depression and hilarity; or, ill-humour and lively mood, alternating.
Restless, anxious, sorrowful mood.

Vertigo, with confusion.
Congestion of the head, with nosebleed.

Sudden broad thrust; in the right temple; extending into the brain, causing him to start; above the left frontal eminence, extending deep into the brain.

Must wink and wipe the eyes, frequently, as though a film of mucus were over them.
The light seems dimmer than usual, as if obscured by a veil.
Appearance of a spot jumping up and down before sight.
Pupils much dilated.
Feeling as though water were constantly coming in the eyes; only in the room.
Feeling in the eyes, like after much weeping.
Sore burning in the eyes after reading a while; also dimness, must wink frequent.
Twitching and itching in the upper lid.
Inclined to press lids tightly together from time to time.

Humming in the ears, causing impairment of hearing, worse when stooping.

Epistaxis of very tenacious, thick, black blood, with cold sweat in large drops, on the forehead.
Violent sneezing.

Yellowish earthy color of the face.

Tongue coated white, papillæ elevated, better after breakfast.

Feeling as if the uvula were elongated, during and when not swallowing.

Excessive thirst for cold drinks.

Eructations, tasteless.
Violent heart-burn.
Feeling of nausea in the chest and throat.

Distension of the stomach and abdomen.
Sensation of fermentation, in the stomach.
Sensation as if something living were jumping about in pit of stomach.

Sensation in the abdomen, as if something living were jumping about, with nausea and faintness.
Stitches in the abdomen arresting respiration, with uterine inflammation.

Stool contain dark, stringy blood.
Sensitive, dull, long stitch near left side of anus, from time to time.
Crawling in the anus, as from thread-worms.
Intolerable writhing in the anus.

Excitement of sexual desire.

Sensation as if the menses would appear, with colic and pressing towards the genitals.
Uterine flow during full or new moon.
Menses profuse and lasting too long, but come at proper time; blood dark, clotted, stringy.
Metrorrhagia of dark, viscid, stringy blood, in black clots, after overheating, straining or lifting, also after abortion or delivery; worse from slightest motion.

Lochia dark, stringy.

Offensive sickly-odor of the breath.

Violent attack of exhausting dry cough, relieved by laying the head on the pit of stomach.
Cough, with spitting of blood.

Heaviness of the chest, must frequent take a deep breath.
Dull stitches in the left chest.

Pulse: feverish, accelerated.
Anxious palpitation of the heart.
Palpitation of the heart on going up stairs.

Pain on moving the upper arm, as if the head of the humerus were loose and would easily be isolated.
Chilblains on the hands and fingers.

Violent cracking of the hip or knee joint, when stooping.
Knees give way.
Chilblains on the toes.
Burning and tingling of the feet.
Aching of the soles from standing.

Motion: 23. Standing: 33. Stooping: 33.

Excessive prostration and weariness in the evening, as from severe physical exertion, accompanied by great sleepiness, with feeling as if the jerking in the muscles.
Spasmodic contraction of single sets of muscles.
Jumping, dancing, laughing, whistling, wants to kiss everybody.

Signs in sleep.
Dreams: confused; frightful.

Morning: 11. Afternoon: 40. Evening: 36, 40. Night: 40.

Room: 5. Overheating: 23.

Chill in the afternoon, growing worse toward evening, with shivering from the back down the legs; trembling.
Thirst, with the chill and heat.
Flushes of internal heat, with pricking and crawling in skin.
Heat, principally of head and face, with paleness of cheeks and thirst.
Heat, principally of head and face, with paleness of cheeks and thirst.
Heat, with intense redness of race, and distension of blood-vessels.
Violent heat over whole body chiefly in the head, with redness of the face and great thirst without much dryness of the mouth toward evening.
Sweat scant, only at night, and then cold and debilitating.
Sweat only on the lower half of the body.

New and full moon: 23.

Right: 3. Left: 3, 20, 28.

Sensation, as of something living, jumping, in various parts.

Laying hands on: 27. Pressure: 5. Straining: 23. Lifting: 23.

Pricking and crawling in the skin.
Scarlet-colored spots on the skin.
Scarlet redness of the skin.
Painful suppurations of bruised parts (old cicatrized wounds reopen and suppurate).

Antidotes to Croc. sat., Acon., Bellad., Opium.

A tincture is made of Saffron, the dried stigmas of Crocus sativus, L.

It seems to produce marked hysterical symptoms, with tendency to hæmorrhages of dark blood.

Plat., Ign., Zinc.

Distended veins, with internal heat but not much increase of temperature. ▶ Lying as if in apoplexy. ▶ Anxious trembling of whole body. ▶ Spasms every evening, with delirium, alternating with tender mood, wildness and outbreaks of rage; with inclination to bite. ▶ Sensation of something living and jumping about in pit of stomach, abdomen, arms and other parts. ▶ Uneasiness of blood, with palpitation. ▶ Weakness in evening after a moderate meal, amel. literary occupation, with sleepiness, pressure on eyelids and feeling as if they were swollen; W. in morning, amel. open air, agg. in the house, with sensation as if general; sweat would break out and desire to sit or lie; even to sinking down, with sensation as if general sweat would break out, and rapid pulse; of whole body, hands and feet. ▶ Faintness. ▶ Aggravation in morning. ▶ Amelioration in open air.

Chorea, with repeated nosebleed of the Crocus character. ▶ Hysteria and nervous prostration, with the peculiar abdominal symptoms or chorea-like twitching, etc.

Silly dementia. ▶ Anger at everything and sudden repentance at having injured others. ▶ Vehement, peevish, quarrelsome, an hour later talkative, lively, laughing, singing (Compare Plat.). ▶ Vacillating mood towards evening, anger at the behavior of her relatives and friends and she is at the point of breaking into a passion, but at this moment she feels calm, the next moment this calmness seems a weakness, then vexation with herself and greater anger than ever. ▶ Joy alternating with sadness; with pallor. ▶ Affectionate mood alternating with rage and inclination to bite. ▶ Peevishness alternating with desire to embrace others. ▶ Ill humor at what would usually make her laugh, so that she loses consciousness, then astonishment at the outbreak; I. at the slightest thing, then she does not know what she is doing, with anxiety and general trembling. ▶ Sadness; with anxiety and uneasiness; sudden S. so that he could not fix his mind upon an interesting lecture. ▶ (Alternating moods, see Plat., Ign., Zinc., etc.).

Inclination to sing; involuntary singing if she hears a single note sung, then she must laugh at herself, but soon sings again in spite of her determination to stop (Tarent.); quiet repetition of a lively melody, even when out of humor. ▶ Gayety; bordering on delirium, with pallor, headache and obscuration of vision; and witty, jocose and talkative mood (Tarent.). ▶ Laughter; immoderate, as if he would die; sardonic, with attacks of morbid jollity; and joking, with prostration and dilated pupils. ▶ Longing for he knows not what, with apprehension and joy. ▶ Indifference. ▶ Thoughtlessness from the least thing which affects her. ▶ Sudden vivid recollection of a concert, then inability to recall the music. ▶ Forgetfulness; and absence of mind, does not recognize an old acquaintance. ▶ Loss of ideas on attempting to write down anything. ▶ It suddenly seems as if thoughts would vanish. ▶ Confusion. ▶ Mistakes about the times or objects though they were distinctly visible. ▶ Senses easily lost, with blackness before eyes. ▶ Disinclination for every work.

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Great weakness, not only in the evening, but also in the morning, generally > open air, or when the mind is occupied; tendency to tremblings and to twitchings of muscles; especially a feeling as though something were living and jumping about in the flesh, or in the stomach or abdomen.
Crawling sensation here and there.
Parts of the body fall asleep, especially at night.
General tendency to hæmorrhage from various parts; blood always tenacious and black.

As a rule the moods are extremely variable; sadness alternating with gayety; a vacillating mood towards evening; at one moment is angry at her relatives and friends, and about to break into a passion, at the next is calm and vexed with herself, and then becomes angry.
Involuntary singing and laughing in spite of her determination.
Mind very much distracted.
Forgetful.

Sudden thrusts, extending deep into the brain, in the forehead and temples; usually > pressure.
Frontal headache associated with burning and pressure in the eyes, especially in the evening by the light.
Pulsating headache in the side of the head, extending into the eye.

Spasms of the lids.
Frequent need to wink or wipe the eyes, as if mucus or some foreign body were in the eyes.
Inclined to press the eyes tightly together.
Lachrymation in the house, or in the open air.
Dimness of vision in the evening by the light like a veil or mist.

Clinical:
Ciliary neuralgia; the pain goes from the eyes to the top of the head, with feeling as if a cold wind were blowing against the eye.
Asthenopia; pain extending from the eye to the top of the head.
Affections of the eye in nearsighted people, posterior sclero-choriditis.
Asthenopia with extreme photophobia; cannot read without a gush of tears, as if he had to wink all the while.

Epistaxis of tenacious, thick, black blood, with drops of cold sweat on forehead.
Coryza, with stringy mucus.

Face usually of an earthy color (with the hæmorrhages).
Burning red places on the spots.
Glowing heat of the face.
Cracking of the lips.

Foul odor from the mouth.

Scraping in the throat before and after eating.
Scraping in the throat as if the uvula were elongated.

Thirst for cold drinks.
Heartburn after eating.
Qualmishness, which disappears in the open air.
Sensation of something jumping about in the stomach as if it were alive.

Sensation in the abdomen as of something alive and jumping about, with nausea and shivering.
Abdomen distended.
Heaviness and dragging in the lower abdomen, extending towards the genitals.

Sticking and crawling in the anus, with itching, as from worms.
Stools contain dark, stringy blood.

Intermitting, sharp, sticking pains extend from anus into the pudenda, leaving a dull ache, < inspiration.
Menses too early and profuse.
Uterine hæmorrhage of black, tenacious, offensive blood.
Frequent feeling as if the menses would come on, with colic and pressure.

Clinical:
It is not only useful in uterine hæmorrhages of thick dark blood, but it has removed the disposition to miscarriage associated with an unnatural sensation of worms in the abdomen, or of something dead and heavy.

Difficulty in breathing, with inclination to take deep breaths, > after yawning.
Dry, violent cough, caused by irritation in the trachea, > laying the hand on the pit of the stomach.
Sticking pains on the left side of the chest.
Heaviness in the chest, causing deep breathing.
A feeling as though something alive were jumping about in the right side of the chest.

Anxious palpitation.
Palpitation on going upstairs, with great debility.

A feeling of coldness in the back.

A sensation in the shoulder joint as if the head of the humerus would be dislocated.
The whole upper extremity falls asleep.
Burning, crawling and a feeling of tightness in the tips of the fingers.

Great weakness in the knees and legs.
Bruised pain in the hip joint.
Chilblains on the fingers and toes.

Scarlet redness of the whole body.
Bruised spots on the skin tend to suppurate, with pain and soreness.

Constant yawning and sleepiness, especially after every meal.
Confused and frightful dreams of the occurrences of the day.

Chilliness, with yawning and goose-flesh.
Shivering only in posterior parts of the body.
Heat towards evening, especially of the head, with redness of the face, and thirst.
Sweat only on the lower part of the body.

Cro. / (Crow.) / The Crone.

Crocus,-Thous of symptom rare,
Like a jumping here and there-
Like a living something in
Stomach, womb or abdomen,
Thine a bleeding,- clotted, black,-
From the womb or nasal track,
Bleeding nose with paling face,
Or 'til syncope takes place.
Bleeding womb with clammy sweat,
And the nerves all in a fret,
Like chorea in display,
Or hysteric mania.

The Crone,- Has Nose-bleed, with pale face.

The Crone seeks the carver in China.

This Crone,-Who is subject to a sensation as of something within jumping, or alive moving,-Has a seat at the Inn.

Nose-Bleed with pale face: Cro., Sec., Carb. v., China., etc. (See Nose-bleed.)

Sense as of Something Within Alive, Jumping or Moving: Cro., Sul., Thuj., Nux m.

Indicated in black, stringy haemorrhages in hysterical conditions; chorea.

Mind vacillating, constantly changing; confused; incoherent.

Biting pain in the eyes as if from smoke; eyes water, especially in the open air; dimness, as though a veil were between the eyes and the light.

Sensation as of a ball rolling about in the abdomen; as if something living were jumping about in the pit of the stomach, in the abdomen and in other parts (hysteria, chorea).

Haemorrhage, dark, stringy; from the nose, uterus (on slightest movement), from lungs with drops of cold sweat on the head. On raising a clot of the blood, long strings hand down from it. "It has removed the disposition to miscarriage associated with an unnatural sensation of worms in the abdomen, or of something dead and heavy" (T. F. Allen).

Great distraction and forgetfulness. Extraordinarily changeable mood. Mournfulness alternating with cheerfulness. Inclination to joke, laugh and sing. Gay insanity with buffoonery. Angry and flying into a passion, alternating with gentleness.

With fainting. Whirling, and feeling of intoxication in forehead when in room, but not in open air, with occipital headache and pains in eyes.

Sudden thrusts in forehead and temples. In evening by artificial light, pain in forehead with burning and pressure in eyes. Pulsating pain in one side of, extending into eyes.

Nightly spasms of lids. Visible quivering of lids. Lachrymation when in room, but not in open air Inclination to blink or wipe them. Dilated pupils. In evening by candle light dim vision, as of gauze or fog before.

Bleeding thick, tenacious, black blood, with cold sweat on forehead.

Earthy color. Red, burning spots on. Glowing heat of. Cracked lips.

Scratching in throat in evening, before and after (not while) eating. Sensation in throat, as of a stopper therein, or as though' as of a stopper therein, or as though' uvula had fallen. White coat on tongue with elevated papillae.

Appetite: Thirst in evening.

Eructations: Heartburn after eating.

Nausea, etc. - Inclination to vomit disappearing in open air.

Sensation, as something living, hopping and jumping about in, and in abdomen or chest.

Distension of. Sense of heaviness in lower, and pressing towards genitals.

Sticking, itching and crawling in.

Continual, sharp stitching from anus into groins, where it remains as a simple pain, worse inspiration.

Menses: Too early, and too profuse. Uterine hemorrhage of dark, tenacious, foul smelling blood. Discharge of blood during new or full moon.

Difficult, with inclination to take a deep breath, better after yawning. Offensive smelling breath.

Violent dry, from irritation in trachea, relieved by laying hands on epigastrium. Haemoptysis.

Sensation of coldness in.

Great weariness in knees and legs. Bruised pain in hip joint. Frost bites in toes.

Sensation as of something living, hopping and jumping about in body. Crawling thro' body, now here, now there. Asleep feeling in single parts, especially at night. Hemorrhage of tenacious black blood from various organs. Choreic attacks with singing laughing and dancing, toward evening, every eight days. Early in morning, intense weakness and he feel worse generally. In open air she is far better than in a moderately warm room. Great alternation of symptoms.

Scarlet redness of entire body. Painful suppuration of bruised parts.

Persistent yawning and inclination to. Sleepiness after every meal. Drowsiness and somnolency.

Pulse: Feverishly accelerated. Anxious palpitation. Chill: Afternoon, augmented towards evening, with cold shuddering spreading from back over legs, and trembling. Thirst, during chill as well as heat. Cold shuddering on posterior half of body only. Chilliness with goose - skin and yawning. Heat: Internal overrunning, with pricking and crawling in skin. Most on head and face, with pale cheeks and thirst. With a very red face and swelled blood vessels. Sweat: Scanty, some at night only and then it is cold and exhausting. On lower half of body only.

Allied Remedies: Aco., Bell., Op., Plat.

Very changeable temperament.

Sensation of hopping and jumping, as from something alive in the abdomen and in in the chest.

Bleeding from various organs of the body, the blood is black and tough.

Tingling in various parts of the body.

St. Vitus' dance.

These attacks are of a a recurrent nature, are evening attacks and associated with singing, laughing and dancing spells.

Skin scarlet-red.

In the open air the patient feels better than in the room, even moderately warm; amelioration, therefore, in the open air. Aggravation is present in the morning, from fasting, and in a warm room.