CROCUS SATIVUS

Source indications

Allen's Keynotes

  • frequent and extreme changes in sensations; sudden, from the greatest hilarity to the deepest despondency
  • 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
  • headache; during climacteric, throbbing, pulsating, worse during two or three days of accustomed menstrual flow; nervous or menstrual headache before, during, or after flow
  • 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 better
  • nosebleed: black, tenacious, stringy, every drop can be turned into a thread; with cold sweat in large drops on forehead
  • in children who develop too rapidly
  • dysmenorrhoea: flow black; stringy, clotted
  • sensation as if something alive were moving in the stomach, abdomen, uterus, arms or other parts of the body; with nausea and faintness
  • chorea and hysteria with great hilarity, singing and dancing; alternating with melancholy and rage
  • spasmodic contractions and twitchings of single sets of muscles