Crocus sativus

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

Sexual

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.

Sensations

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.

Generalities

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.

Worse

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.

Better

In the open air; after breakfast.

Remedies following

Nux vom., Pulsat., Sulphur.

Antidote

Opium.