CROCUS SATIVUS
Source indications
Boericke's Materia Medica
- Hemorrhages black and stringy
- Tingling in various parts
- Chorea
- Hysterical affections
- Frequent and extreme changes in sensations
- Frequent and extreme changes in mental conditions
- Anger with violence followed by repentance
- Laughing mania
- Drowsiness and lassitude
- Vacillating mind
- Pleasant mania
- Sings and laughs
- Happy and affectionate then angry
- Sudden changes from hilarity to melancholy
- Vivid recollection from music heard
- Throbbing pulsating head during climacteric
- Head worse during menses
- Appearance of electric sparks in eyes
- 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
- Asthenopia with extreme photophobia
- Threatened glaucoma
- Embolism of arteria centralis retinal
- Epistaxis
- Dark stringy clotted nosebleed
- 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
- Sensation of something alive in stomach
- Abdomen swollen
- Feeling of something heavy in abdomen
- Threatened abortion especially when hemorrhage is dark and stringy
- Urging of blood to genitals
- Menses dark viscid too frequent and copious black and slimy
- Uterine hemorrhage clots with long strings
- Uterine hemorrhage worse from least movement
- Jerking pain in interior of left breast as if drawn toward back by means of thread
- A bounding feeling as if something alive in right breast
- Wheezy cough with frothy expectoration containing threads like fine twine
- Cough 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
- Cracking in knees
- Weakness in knees
- Weakness in legs
- Pain in ankles
- Pain in soles