Crocus sativus
Allen, Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica, 3rd ed., 1910, p. 108
Saffron. Iridacece.
Keynotes
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.
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, 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 veg.) ; in children who develop too rapidly (Col., 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.).
Relation. — Nux, Puls, or Sulph. follow Crocus well in nearly all complaints.
Compare: In menstrual derangements (Ust.T