====== CROCUS SATIVUS ======
<span tc1>{{anchor:s1}}Crocus Sativus.</span>

<span grade2>{{anchor:s2}}Saffron. {{anchor:s3}}Iridaceae.</span>

{{anchor:s4}}Employed by the ancients both as a medicine and a condiment.

{{anchor:s5}}The provings are principally by Stapf and Gross, and associate provers. {{anchor:s6}}See Encyclopaedia, vol. 3, p. 578.

====== CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. ======

{{anchor:s8}}- <span grade2>Cerebral disturbance</span>, Schmid, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 1, p. 20; <span grade2>Headache during climacteric period</span>, H., Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 1, p. 176; <span grade2>Ophthalmia</span>, S. Lilienthal, Med. Inv., vol. 7, p. 64; <span grade2>Conjunctivitis</span>, T. C. Fanning, Hom. Clinics, vol. 3, p. 21; <span grade2>Epistaxis</span>, Landesmann, Raue's Rec., 1873, p. 81; <span grade2>Epistaxis</span> (four cases), Hartlaub, Sonnenberg, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 1, p. 412; J. Stein, Raue's Rec., 1875, p. 81; <span grade2>Gastric disturbances after operation for hemorrhoids</span>, Schmidt, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 1, p. 636; <span grade2>Hemorrhage from uterus</span> (five cases), Diez, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 2, p. 307; Kopp, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 2, p. 307; <span grade2>Metrorrhagia</span>, Werber, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 2, p. 306; Metrorr<span grade2>h</span>agia, Camillo Lederer, Raue's Rec., 1874, p. 245; <span grade2>Uterine hemorrhage during pregnancy</span>, H. M. Warren, Med. Inv., vol. 5, p. 35; <span grade2>Severe after-pains and hemorrhage</span>, G. Schmid, Hom. Clinics, vol. 4, p. 150; <span grade2>Haemoptysis</span>, H. Ring, Raue's Rec., 1874, p. 159; Chorea, Gross, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 4, p. 507.

====== MIND. [1] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s10}}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.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s11}}On attempting to write something down, cannot, on account of loss of recollection.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s12}}Greatly concerned about his life, believes that he will die, is no longer fit for business.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s13}}~</span> <span grade3>Epistaxis.</span>\\ {{anchor:s14}}Extravagant ideas and great loquacity.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s15}}Sings involuntarily, on hearing even a single note sung; laughs at herself, but soon sings again in spite of her determination to stop.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s16}}Jumping, dancing, laughing, whistling; very affectionate, wants to kiss everybody.</span>\\ {{anchor:s17}}Gayety; uncommon mirth and cheerfullness; witty.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s18}}Changeable disposition, depression and hilarity.</span>\\ {{anchor:s19}}Alternations of excessive happy affectionate tenderness and rage.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s20}}Restless, anxious, sorrowful mood; deep melancholy.</span>\\ {{anchor:s21}}Excessive timidity.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s22}}Vexation, contradicted by bursts of laughter.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s23}}He takes everything in anger and suddenly repents of having injured others.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s24}}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.</span>

====== SENSORIUM. [2] ======

{{anchor:s26}}Giddiness with fainting.\\ {{anchor:s27}}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.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s28}}Congestion of head, with nosebleed.</span>

====== INNER HEAD. [3] ======

{{anchor:s30}}Sudden shock in forehead and temples.\\ {{anchor:s31}}Pain in forehead in evening by candlelight, with burning and pressure in eyes.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s32}}Sudden broad thrust in right temple, extending deep into brain, causing him to start; above left frontal eminence, extending deep into brain.</span>\\ {{anchor:s33}}Pulsating pains in left side of head extending into eye.\\ {{anchor:s34}}Sudden cold sensation on left parietal bone, as if a drop of cold water had fallen on it.\\ {{anchor:s35}}When moving head, sensation as if brain was loose.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s36}}Congestion of head; violent throbbing.</span>\\ {{anchor:s37}}Nervous or menstrual headache.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s38}}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; agg. during period in which she was accustomed to have menstrual flow, pain continuing at that time two or three days without remission, preventing sleep.</span>

====== OUTER HEAD. [4] ======

{{anchor:s40}}Vertigo when raising head, with heat of body.

====== SIGHT AND EYES. [5] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s42}}Eyes fixed and shining.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s43}}~</span> <span grade3>Cerebral disturbance.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s44}}Sudden flashes before eyes like electric sparks.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s45}}Appearance of a spot jumping up and down before sight.</span>\\ {{anchor:s46}}On reading, the paper looks pale red or rose color, shines.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s47}}The light seems dim, as if obscured by a veil.</span>\\ {{anchor:s48}}Acute tearing pain in head and right eye, with dimness of vision, and a sensation as if cold air was rushing through eye.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s49}}Sore burning in eyes after reading awhile; also dimness, must wink frequently.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s50}}Pupils much dilated.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s51}}Pain in eye to top of head, pain in left eye darting to right; sensation of cold wind blowing across eyes.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s52}}~</span> <span grade3>Sclero-choroiditis post.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s53}}~</span> <span grade3>Asthenopia.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s54}}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.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s55}}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).</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s56}}~</span> <span grade3>Conjunctivitis.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s57}}Feeling as though water was constantly coming into eyes, only in room.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s58}}Sensation as if she had been looking through too sharp spectacles.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s59}}Feeling as of biting smoke in eyes.</span>\\ {{anchor:s60}}Worse from looking fixedly at an object, cannot even thread a needle.\\ {{anchor:s61}}Ophthalmia menstrual in patients of a sanguine temperament, subject to attacks of congestion and inclination to spasms (hysterical) at climacteric period.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s62}}Extreme photophobia and most copious lachrymation; impossible to read without a torrent of tears inundating eyes, so that light gets confused and veiled.</span>\\ {{anchor:s63}}Lachrymation in room; not in open air.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s64}}Constant winking, with tearful suffusion of eyes.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s65}}Must wink and wipe eyes frequently, as though a film of mucus was over them.</span>\\ {{anchor:s66}}Twitching of eyelids.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s67}}Jerking, twitching and itching in upper lid.</span>\\ {{anchor:s68}}Nightly spasms of lids.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s69}}Sensation as if eyelids were swollen.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s70}}Inclined to press lids tightly together from time to time.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s71}}Heating and lancinating pains in eyes after surgical operations.</span>

====== HEARING AND EARS. [6] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s73}}Humming and roaring in ears, causing impairment of hearing, agg. when stooping.</span>

====== SMELL AND NOSE. [7] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s75}}Mild pressure in forehead precedes attack of nosebleed; he is very anxious, believing that he will die, constant coldness of hands and feet; towards evening, congestion of blood to head, with warmth of face, quivering in left eyelid, sour taste in mouth, pulse full and quick.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s76}}Epistaxis of very tenacious, thick, black blood, every drop drawn into a thread, with cold sweat in large drops on forehead.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s77}}Violent sneezing; coryza with stringy mucus.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s78}}Bloody mucus, or dark, stringy blood from nose.</span>

====== UPPER FACE. [8] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s80}}Yellowish, sallow color of face.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s81}}~</span> <span grade3>Epistaxis.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s82}}~</span> <span grade3>Metrorrhagia.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s83}}Livid complexion, or circumscribed, burning red spots.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s84}}Red, hot face, or alternate redness and paleness.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s85}}Redness and heat of face, with congestion to head.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s86}}~</span> <span grade3>Cerebral disturbance.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s87}}Sensation of warmth in face, with congestion to head and twitching in left eyelid.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s88}}~</span> <span grade3>Epistaxis.</span>

====== LOWER FACE. [9] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s90}}Lips cracked.</span>

====== TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE. [11] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s92}}Tongue moist, dirty and coated in centre.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s93}}~</span> <span grade3>Metrorrhagia.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s94}}Tongue coated white, papillae elevated, amel. after breakfast.</span>

====== INNER MOUTH. [12] ======

{{anchor:s96}}Unusual warmth in mouth.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s97}}Sour taste in mouth.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s98}}~</span> <span grade3>Epistaxis.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s99}}Foul odor from mouth.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s100}}~</span> <span grade3>Metrorrhagia.</span>

====== PALATE AND THROAT. [13] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s102}}Feeling as if uvula was elongated, during and when not swallowing.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s103}}Elongation of uvula.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s104}}Sensation in esophagus as from a plug.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s105}}Scraping in throat in evening before and after, but not during time he takes his food.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s106}}Scraping rough throat.</span>

====== APPETITE, THIRST. DESIRES, AVERSIONS. [14] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s109}}Excessive thirst for cold drinks; thirst in evening.</span>

====== HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING. [16] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s111}}Eructations, tasteless.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s112}}Violent heartburn.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s113}}Feeling of nausea in chest and throat.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s114}}Nausea, disappearing in open air.</span>

====== SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH. [17] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s116}}Great feeling of emptiness in pit of stomach.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s117}}Distension of stomach and abdomen.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s118}}Sensation of fermentation in stomach, or of motion upward and downward, hither and thither.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s119}}Sensation as if something living was jumping about in pit of stomach.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s120}}Fullness and bloatedness of stomach; eructations and rancid pyrosis; nausea and difficult vomiting of decomposed fluids; fine cutting pain beginning in cardiac region, extending to and fixing itself in stomach; abdomen sunken; no stools during paroxysms; pulse about 60, intermittent, as also beat of heart; great dyspnea; icteric symptoms.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s121}}~</span> <span grade3>After operation for hemorrhoids.</span>\\ {{anchor:s122}}Very violent heartburn.

====== ABDOMEN AND LOINS. [19] ======

{{anchor:s124}}Bloated abdomen.\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s125}}Sensation in abdomen as if something living was jumping about, with nausea, faintness and shivering.</span>\\ {{anchor:s126}}In night when waking she experiences repeated kicks in left side of abdomen as from a fetus.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s127}}Stitches in abdomen arresting respiration, with uterine inflammation.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s128}}Sensation of heaviness in abdomen, with pressing towards uterus.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s129}}Cutting pains deep in lower abdomen extending towards small of back.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s130}}~</span> <span grade3>Uterine hemorrhage.</span>\\ {{anchor:s131}}Pain in groins.

====== STOOLS AND RECTUM. [20] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s133}}Obstinate constipation caused by stagnation in portal system; costiveness of newborn children when based on venous disturbances.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s134}}Stools contain dark, stringy blood.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s135}}Sensitive, dull, long stitch near left side of anus, from time to time.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s136}}Stitches and itching at anus; stitch extending from anus through small of back into left groin, agg. during an inspiration.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s137}}Crawling in anus, as from thread worms.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s138}}Intolerable writhing in anus affecting whole nervous system painfully.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s139}}Urine scant and pale.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s140}}~</span> <span grade3>Cerebral disturbance.</span>

====== MALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [22] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s142}}Excitement of sexual desire.</span>

====== FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [23] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s144}}Sensation as if menses would appear, with colic and pressing towards genitals.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s145}}Menses too early and too profuse.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s146}}Uterine flow during new or full moon.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s147}}Menses profuse and lasting too long, but come at proper time; blood dark, clotted, stringy, viscid.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s148}}Dysmenorrhea, with dark, stringy blood; sensation of commotion in stomach upward and downward, hither and thither, during painful menses.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s149}}After non-appearance of menses for ten weeks, sudden severe bearing down pains in abdomen and small of back with severe hemorrhage; blood flowing in large, black, coagulated masses from uterus, greatly exhausting patient.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s150}}Menses suppressed; sensation of rolling or tumbling in abdomen.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s151}}After dancing or a long walk during menses, with or without pain, when there is a discharge of dark, stringy blood; it comes away in dark or black strings; sense of rolling or bounding in stomach or abdomen; violent cephalic throbbing.</span>\\ {{anchor:s152}}Nervous excitement; palpitation of heart; fearfullness.\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s153}}Metrorrhagia of dark, viscid, stringy blood, in black clots, or after overheating, straining or lifting, also after abortion or delivery; agg. from slightest motion.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s154}}Daily discharge of bright red blood, viscid, slimy, coagulated, with vertigo, pains in head, stitches in both sides under false ribs, frequent palpitation; small and frequent pulse, pains in back and great exhaustion.</span>\\ {{anchor:s155}}Leucorrhea with paroxysms of acute stitches from pudendum to right thigh, as if a knife was suddenly thrust into these parts every now and then, gradually penetrating into the parts and with increasing pain.

====== PREGNANCY. PARTURITION. LACTATION. [24] ======

{{anchor:s159}}Imaginary pregnancy.\\ {{anchor:s160}}Motions of child are felt too violently, and are painful.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s161}}Threatened abortion, especially when there is a hemorrhage of dark, stringy blood; miscarriage third month.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s162}}Quarter of an hour after delivery, placenta still remaining, blood in large clots; womb dilated, soft; fainting; pale as death; pulseless, extremities cold as ice.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s163}}~</span> <span grade3>Post-partum hemorrhage.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s164}}Lochia dark, stringy; abdomen distended.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s165}}Discharge composed of black strings; as fast as blood flows from vulva it is formed into black, string-like masses.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s166}}Offensive smelling uterine hemorrhage; or when the patient, in consequence of long-continued hemorrhage, has fallen into a state of nervous erethism.</span>

====== RESPIRATION. [26] ======

{{anchor:s168}}Oppression of chest, with desire to draw a long breath, amel. by yawning.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s169}}Offensive, sickly odor of breath.</span>

====== COUGH. [27] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s171}}Violent attack of exhausting dry cough, relieved by laying hand on pit of stomach.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s172}}Cough, with spitting of dark, stringy blood.</span>

====== INNER CHEST AND LUNGS. [28] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s174}}Heaviness of chest, must frequently take a deep breath.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s175}}Sensation as if something living was hopping in chest.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s176}}Jumping, as if from something living in lower portion of right chest, as if beneath the ribs.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s177}}Dull stitches in left chest.</span>

====== HEART, PULSE AND CIRCULATION. [29] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s179}}Anxious palpitation of heart.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s180}}~</span> <span grade3>Uterine hemorrhage.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s181}}Palpitation of heart on going up-stairs; great debility.</span>\\ {{anchor:s182}}Pulse: feverish, accelerated; full and quick (epistaxis); slow, scarcely 60 (cerebral disturbance); weak and intermitting, hardly accelerated (metrorrhagia); pulseless.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s183}}Excited circulation.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s184}}~</span> <span grade3>Hemorrhages.</span>

====== OUTER CHEST. [30] ======

{{anchor:s186}}Peculiar jerking pain in interior of left breast, as if drawn towards the back by means of a thread.

====== NECK AND BACK. [31] ======

{{anchor:s188}}Swelling of neck.\\ {{anchor:s189}}Sensation of coldness in back.

====== UPPER LIMBS. [32] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s191}}Pain on moving upper arm, as if head of humerus was loose and easily dislocated; cracking.</span>\\ {{anchor:s192}}Sensation as if arms and hands had gone to sleep.\\ {{anchor:s193}}The arms (forearm) feel heavy, as if bruised.\\ {{anchor:s194}}Burning, tingling and tension in tips of fingers.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s195}}Chilblains on hands and fingers.</span>

====== LOWER LIMBS. [33] ======

{{anchor:s197}}Sudden concussion in buttocks as from a fall, while sitting.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s198}}Violent cracking of hip or knee joint, when stooping.</span>\\ {{anchor:s199}}Great sensation of weariness in knee joint and lower legs.\\ {{anchor:s200}}Knees give way.\\ {{anchor:s201}}Trembling of feet on falling asleep.\\ {{anchor:s202}}Burning and tingling of feet.\\ {{anchor:s203}}Aching of soles from standing.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s204}}Chilblains on toes.</span>

====== LIMBS IN GENERAL. [34] ======

{{anchor:s206}}Limbs go to sleep (at night).\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s207}}Constant coldness of hands and feet.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s208}}~</span> <span grade3>Epistaxis.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s209}}Extremities cold as ice.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s210}}~</span> <span grade3>Metrorrhagia.</span>

====== REST. POSITION. MOTION. [35] ======

{{anchor:s214}}Sitting: sudden concussion in buttocks, as from a fall.\\ {{anchor:s215}}Motion: metrorrhagia agg. from slightest.\\ {{anchor:s216}}Raising head after lying down: staggering and giddiness; vertigo.\\ {{anchor:s217}}On moving head: as if brain was loose.\\ {{anchor:s218}}On moving upper arm: pain, as if head of humerus was loose and easily dislocated.\\ {{anchor:s219}}Stooping: agg. humming and roaring in ears; violent cracking of hip or knee joint.\\ {{anchor:s220}}On going up-stairs: palpitation of heart.\\ {{anchor:s221}}Child sits or stands up in bed, making various quick movements, without being conscious of what he is doing.\\ {{anchor:s222}}After dancing or long walk during menses, blood dark and stringy, bounding in stomach or abdomen, violent cephalic throbbing.

====== NERVES. [36] ======

{{anchor:s224}}Great nervous exaltation and depression.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s225}}Excessive prostration and weariness in evening, as from severe physical exertion, accompanied by great sleepiness, with feeling as if eyelids were swollen; literary occupation relieves.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s226}}Fainting.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s227}}~</span> <span grade3>Epistaxis.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s228}}~</span> <span grade3>Metrorrhagia.</span>\\ {{anchor:s229}}Hysteria; excessive mirth and cheerfullness alternating with melancholy; childish follies; pleasant dementia, with paleness and headache.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s230}}Jerking in muscles.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s231}}Spasmodic contractions of single sets of muscles.</span>\\ {{anchor:s232}}Chorea, every seven days, with great hilarity, singing and dancing.

====== SLEEP. [37] ======

{{anchor:s234}}Continuous yawning and desire to sleep.\\ {{anchor:s235}}Drowsiness; somnolency; sleepiness daytime, after meals.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s236}}Sings in sleep.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s237}}Dreams; confused; frightful.</span>

====== TIME. [38] ======

{{anchor:s239}}In daytime: sleepiness.\\ {{anchor:s240}}In afternoon: chill, growing agg. towards evening, with shivering and trembling.\\ {{anchor:s241}}Towards evening: violent heat over whole body, great thirst, chill agg.\\ {{anchor:s242}}In evening: pain in forehead; when reading, sees as through a gauze; congestion of blood to head, quivering in left eyelid, sour taste in mouth, pulse full and quick; scraping in throat; thirst; excessive prostration, weariness and sleepiness.\\ {{anchor:s243}}At night: staggering and giddiness when raising head after lying down; when waking, as of kicking of fetus in left side of abdomen; limbs go to sleep; sweat.

====== TEMPERATURE AND WEATHER. [39] ======

{{anchor:s245}}In room: vertigo; lachrymation.\\ {{anchor:s246}}In hot weather: epistaxis.\\ {{anchor:s247}}Open air: nausea amel.; desire for.\\ {{anchor:s248}}Cold drinks: excessive thirst for.

====== FEVER. [40] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s250}}Chill in afternoon, growing agg. towards evening, with shivering from back down legs; trembling.</span>\\ {{anchor:s251}}Chilliness, only on back part of body.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s252}}Thirst, with chill and heat.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s253}}Flushes of internal heat, prickling and crawling in skin.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s254}}Heat, principally of head and face, with paleness of cheeks and thirst.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s255}}Heat in face and in front of head.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s256}}Heat, intense redness of face, distension of bloodvessels.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s257}}Violent heat over whole body, chiefly in head, with redness of face and great thirst, without much dryness of mouth; towards evening.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s258}}Internal heat and great anguish.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s259}}~</span> <span grade3>Metrorrhagia.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s260}}Sweat scant, only at night, and then cold and debilitating.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s261}}Sweat only on lower half of body.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s262}}Continual foul-smelling sweat, which aggravates the debility.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s263}}~</span> <span grade3>Hemorrhage after confinement.</span>

====== ATTACKS, PERIODICITY. [41] ======

{{anchor:s265}}Sudden: shock in forehead and temples; broad thrust in right temple, or above left frontal eminence; cold sensation on left parietal bone; flashes before eyes like electric sparks; severe bearing down pains in abdomen and small of back, after non-appearance of menses.\\ {{anchor:s266}}Frequent: winking; palpitation; drawing a long breath; changes in sensations.\\ {{anchor:s267}}Constant: winking; coldness of hands and feet; yawning and desire to sleep; foul-smelling sweat.\\ {{anchor:s268}}Nightly: spasms of lids.\\ {{anchor:s269}}Every seven days: chorea.\\ {{anchor:s270}}During new or full moon: uterine flow.\\ {{anchor:s271}}For two or three days: headache during climacteric period.\\ {{anchor:s272}}For twenty-two days: hemorrhage from uterus.\\ {{anchor:s273}}For six weeks: daily discharge of blood, with disturbed menses.\\ {{anchor:s274}}For three months: discharge of blood from uterus.

====== LOCALITY AND DIRECTION. [42] ======

{{anchor:s276}}Right: sudden broad thrust in temple; acute tearing pain in eye, and sensation as if cold air was rushing through eye; as if something was alive and moving in side of abdomen; stitches from pudendum to thigh; jumping, as from something living in lower portion of chest, as if beneath ribs.\\ {{anchor:s277}}Left: sudden broad thrust above frontal eminence; pulsating pains in side of head, extending into eye; sudden cold sensation in parietal bone; quivering in eyelid; as of kicking of fetus in side of abdomen; stitch near side of anus; stitch from anus through small of back into groin; dull stitches in chest; jerking in interior of breast.\\ {{anchor:s278}}From left to right eye: pains darting; feeling as if she had been weeping, with corresponding appearances.

====== SENSATIONS. [43] ======

{{anchor:s280}}As if a drop of cold water had fallen on left parietal bone; as if brain was loose; as if cold air was rushing through right eye; as if cold wind was blowing across eyes; as if room was filled with smoke; as if she had been violently weeping; as if something was alive and moving in abdomen; as though water was coming constantly into eyes; as if she had been looking through too sharp spectacles; as of biting smoke in eyes; as though a film of mucus was over eyes; as if eyelids were swollen; as if uvula was elongated; as of a plug in esophagus; as of fermentation in stomach, or of motion upward and downward, hither and thither; as if something living was jumping about in pit of stomach, or in abdomen; as of kicking of fetus in left side of abdomen; as if menses would appear, with colic or pressing towards genitals; as of rolling and tumbling in abdomen; as if a knife was suddenly thrust into pudendum and right thigh, gradually penetrating into these parts with increasing pain; as of something living and hopping in chest, also in lower portion of right chest, as if beneath ribs; as if left breast was drawn towards back by means of thread; as if head of humerus was loose and would be easily dislocated; as if hands and arms were gone to sleep; arms as if bruised.\\ {{anchor:s281}}Pain: in forehead; in eye to top of head; in groins; in head; in back.\\ {{anchor:s282}}Stitches: in abdomen; sensitive, dull, long, near left side of anus; in anus; from anus through small of back into left groin; in both sides under false ribs; from pudendum to right thigh; dull in left chest.\\ {{anchor:s283}}Thrust: sudden broad, in right temple, extending deep into brain; above left frontal eminence.\\ {{anchor:s284}}Lancinating: in eyes.\\ {{anchor:s285}}Cutting: in cardiac region, extending to and fixing itself in stomach; in lower abdomen extending towards small of back.\\ {{anchor:s286}}Jerking: in upper lid; in interior of left breast; in muscles.\\ {{anchor:s287}}Tearing: in head and right eye.\\ {{anchor:s288}}Concussion: sudden, in buttocks as from a fall.\\ {{anchor:s289}}Shock: sudden, in forehead and temples.\\ {{anchor:s290}}Burning: in eyes; red spots on face; of feet; in skin.\\ {{anchor:s291}}Burning-tingling: in tips of fingers.\\ {{anchor:s292}}Sore burning: in eyes.\\ {{anchor:s293}}Pulsating pains: in left side of head extending into eye; in various parts of head.\\ {{anchor:s294}}Throbbing: in various parts of head.\\ {{anchor:s295}}Writhing: intolerable, in anus, affecting whole nervous system painfully.\\ {{anchor:s296}}Twitching: in upper lid.\\ {{anchor:s297}}Quivering: in left eyelid.\\ {{anchor:s298}}Scraping: in throat.\\ {{anchor:s299}}Bearing down: in abdomen and small of back.\\ {{anchor:s300}}Aching: of soles from standing.\\ {{anchor:s301}}Tension: in tips of fingers.\\ {{anchor:s302}}Oppression: of chest.\\ {{anchor:s303}}Pressure: in eyes; in forehead; towards uterus.\\ {{anchor:s304}}Heaviness: in abdomen; of chest; of arms as if bruised.\\ {{anchor:s305}}Weariness: in knee joints and lower legs.\\ {{anchor:s306}}Heartburn: violent.\\ {{anchor:s307}}Tingling: of feet; in skin.\\ {{anchor:s308}}Crawling: in anus, as from thread worms; in skin.\\ {{anchor:s309}}Prickling: in skin.\\ {{anchor:s310}}Itching: in upper lid; in anus.\\ {{anchor:s311}}Dryness: in eyes.\\ {{anchor:s312}}Fullness: of stomach.\\ {{anchor:s313}}Emptiness: in pit of stomach.\\ {{anchor:s314}}Nausea: in chest and throat.\\ {{anchor:s315}}Warmth: in face; in mouth.\\ {{anchor:s316}}Heat: in eyes; in face and head.\\ {{anchor:s317}}Coldness: on left parietal bone; in back; of hands and feet.

====== TISSUES. [44] ======

{{anchor:s319}}Irritation and congestion of brain, causing hysterical mania, congestion of womb and metrorrhagia.\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s320}}Hemorrhage from various parts, blood black, viscid, clotting, forming itself into long, black strings, hanging from the bleeding orifice.</span>\\ {{anchor:s321}}Tumors, with ulceration and characteristic bleeding.

====== TOUCH. PASSIVE MOTION. INJURIES. [45] ======

{{anchor:s325}}Laying hand on pit of stomach: amel. attacks of exhausting dry cough.\\ {{anchor:s326}}Pressure: on closed lids amel. dryness and burning in eyes.\\ {{anchor:s327}}Inclined to press lids tightly together from time to time.\\ {{anchor:s328}}Bruised parts: painful suppuration.

====== SKIN. [46] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s330}}Pricking, crawling, burning and tingling in skin.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s331}}Scarlet redness of whole body, or scarlet spots on skin.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s332}}Painful suppuration of bruised parts, old, cicatrized wounds reopen and suppurate.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s333}}Lipoma and encephaloma of scalp.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s334}}Chilblains.</span>

====== STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION. [47] ======

{{anchor:s336}}Frequent and great changes in sensations; the feelings changing suddenly from greatest hilarity to deepest despondency.\\ {{anchor:s337}}Especially suitable for women.\\ {{anchor:s338}}Headache during climacteric period.\\ {{anchor:s339}}Epistaxis in children who develop too rapidly or slowly.\\ {{anchor:s340}}Boy, aet. 10, whose father died suddenly in insane asylum; a febrile condition with congestion to head, followed by cerebral disturbances, after awaking from a sleep.\\ {{anchor:s341}}Girl, aet. 10, lively disposition; chorea.\\ {{anchor:s342}}Girl, aet. 20, hemorrhagic diathesis; bright red epistaxis, particularly in hot weather.\\ {{anchor:s343}}Woman, aet. 36, haggard and weak; for three months discharge of blood from uterus.\\ {{anchor:s344}}Woman, aet. 36, good constitution, poorly nourished, after an apparent abortion; hemorrhage from uterus for 22 days.\\ {{anchor:s345}}Woman, aet. 38, pale, thin, of slender build, menstrual function disturbed, menses lasting three weeks; for six weeks daily discharge of blood.\\ {{anchor:s346}}Woman, aet. 40, with tendency to hemorrhoids, after non-appearance of menses for ten weeks in consequence of which she imagines herself pregnant; uterine hemorrhage.\\ {{anchor:s347}}Mrs. M., aet. 48, medium size, fair skin, blue eyes, light hair, mild and sensitive disposition; haemoptysis.\\ {{anchor:s348}}Man, aet. 50, subject to hemorrhoids, for which he had undergone an operation; icteric symptoms, with gastric disturbance.\\ {{anchor:s349}}Man, aet. 56, strongly built, able; epistaxis.\\ {{anchor:s350}}Man, aet. 70; epistaxis, in spells, without apparent cause.

====== RELATIONS. [48] ======

{{anchor:s352}}Antidoted by <span grade2>Acon., Bellad., Opium.</span>\\ {{anchor:s353}}Compatible: with <span grade2>Cinchon.</span> at intervals has cured many cases of menorrhagia; <span grade2>Nux vom., Pulsat., Sulphur.</span>\\ {{anchor:s354}}Compare: <span grade2>Acon., Act. rac., Bellad., Calcar., Fluor. ac.</span> (sensation of cold wind blowing across eyes), <span grade2>Ipec., Ignat., Laches.</span> (pains in eye to top of head), <span grade2>Nux vom., Opium, Platin., Pulsat., Rhus tox., Ruta, Sabina, Sepia</span> and <span grade2>Sulphur.</span>

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====== DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR ======
^ Source: | [[en:mm:hering:start|The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica]] Vol. 04, 1884 |
^ Description: | Clinical materia medica of [[en:rem:r132|Crocus sativus]] |
^ Remedies: | [[en:rem:r132|Crocus sativus]] |
^ Author: | Hering, C.; Raue, C.G.; Knerr, C.B.; Mohr, C. |
^ Year: | 1884 |
^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting |
^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |}