Homeopathy Remedy Crocus


Crocus homeopathy drug symptoms from Handbook of Materia Medica and Homeopathic Therapeutics by T.F. Allen, of the homeopathic remedy Crocus…


      A tincture is made Saffron, the dried stigmas of Crocus sativus, L.

General Action

      It seems to produce marked hysterical symptoms, with tendency to haemorrhages of dark blood.

Allies.– Platina, ign., Zincum met.

Generalities

      Distended veins, with internal heat but not much increase of temperature. Lying as if in apoplexy. Anxious trembling of whole body. Spasms every evening with delirium, alternating with tender mood, wildness and outbreaks of rage, with inclination to bite. Sensation of something living and jumping about in pit of stomach, abdomen, arms and other parts. Uneasiness of blood, with palpitation. Weakness in evening after a moderate meal, (>) literary occupation, with sleepiness, pressure on eyelids and feeling as if they were swollen; W. in morning, (>) open air, (<) in the house, with yawning; with indolence and sleepiness; with sensation as if general sweat would break out and desire to sit or lie; even to sinking down, with sensation as if general sweat would break out, and rapid pulse; of whole body, hands and feet. Faintness. Aggravation in morning. Amelioration in open air.

Clinical Chorea, with repeated nosebleed of the Crocus character. Hysteria and nervous prostration, with the peculiar abdominal symptoms or chorea-like twitchings, etc.

Mind

      Silly dementia. Anger at everything and sudden repentance at having injured others. Vehement, peevish, quarrelsome, an hour later talkative, lively, laughing, singing (compare Platina). Vacillating mood towards evening, anger at the behaviour of her relatives and friends and she is at the point of breaking into a passion, but at this moment she feels calm, the next moment this calmness seems a weakness, then vexation with herself and greater anger than ever. Joy alternating with sadness; with pallor. Affectionate mood alternating with rage and inclination to bite. Peevishness alternating with desire to embrace others. Ill humor at what would usually make her laugh, so that she loses consciousness, then astonishment at the outbreak; I. at the slightest thing, then she does not know what she is doing, with anxiety and general trembling. Sadness; with anxiety and uneasiness; sudden S. so that he could not fix his mind upon an interesting lecture. (Alternating moods, see Platina, Ignatia, Zincum met., etc. ).

Inclination to sing; involuntary singing if she hears a single note sung, then she must laugh at herself, but soon sings again in spite of her determination to stop (Tarent.); quiet repetition of a lively melody, even when out of humor. Gayety; bordering on delirium, with pallor, headache and obscuration of vision; and witty, jocose and talkative mood (Tarent). Laughter; immoderate, as if he would die; sardonic, with attacks of morbid jollity; and joking, with prostration and dilated pupils. Longing for he knows not what, with apprehension and joy. Indifference. Thoughtlessness from the least thing which affects her. Sudden vivid recollection of a concert, then inability to recall the music. Forgetfulness; and absence of mind, does not recognize an old acquaintance. Loss of ideas on attempting to write down anything. It suddenly seems as if thoughts would vanish. Confusion. mistakes about the time or objects though they were distinctly visible., Senses easily lost, with blackness before eyes. Disinclination for every work.

Head

      Sticking, with stopped coryza. Tearings, and in r. eye and a l. hollow tooth, with dimness before l. eye and feeling as of a cold wind in it. Aching; rising from stomach; on moving, with sensation as if brain fell back and forth. Stupidity, with painful confusion of occiput. Intoxicated feeling, with confused vision and warmth of face. Vertigo; in night after rising, with staggering and general heat; with confusion of head; with confusion of head and pain in eyes.

Forehead.– Thrusts extending deep into brain above l. eminence, then painful confusion, (>) pressure (Ignatia). Pain; above eyes, (<) r., (<) towards rubbing; beneath l. eminence as if a dull point were pressing inward, then intermittent paroxysms of the same pain; drawing P in a line down middle; painful drawing, with nausea. Painful cramplike drawing from l. eminence to l. side of bony parts of nose. Tension in l. eminence. Confusion; tensive, as if intoxicated, then in whole head. Stupefaction of forepart of head as if drunken and reeling, (>) open air.

Sudden thrust in r. temple, extending deep into brain. Pressure on vertex in morning after waking, with heaviness of whole head so that he could scarcely hold it up. Pain on r. side; in l. side, extending into r. temple as a counteractive drawing pain, then to ear ad throat, where it is (<) swallowing; intermittent drawing pain in r. side like a painful vessel, rather externally, extending forward. Rhythmical pulsation in whole l. half of head and face. Drawing pressure in r. half of occiput. Hair falls from temples and sides of head.

Clinical Headaches, during the climacteric, frequent, pulsating, sometimes in one side, sometimes in the other, the pain involves the eye.

Eyes

      Weak, glassy, with sleepiness. Feeling of biting smoke. Pain, with sore burning after reading, with dimness so that he must frequently wink. Feeling as if she had wept much; with corresponding expression of face. Burning. Dryness. Feeling as if smaller than usual. Feeling as if water were coming into eyes, (>) open air. Running of much water from the dim eyes when reading letters. Pupils dilated, then contracted. Sticking at one point in r. ball in morning. Pain in balls, with great running of water, then dimness of eyes; P. in balls as after looking through too powerful glasses, without dim vision. Crawling in brows.

Lids.– Twitching (Platina), with sensation as if something must be wiped from r. eye; T. of upper, with itching; sudden T., with crawling in l. brow and sensation as if something were in the eye which he must wipe away. Frequent necessity to wink and wipe dyes as if a film of mucus were over them ( Euphrs.). Inclination to press them tightly together. Drawing together, with running of water from eyes. Sticking in l. lower. Burning pinching beneath l. lower. Sore sensation in evening by the light, with inclination to press them together and wipe the eyes. Burning; (<) closing them. Itching extending towards outer side, r., then both; sticking I. in l. upper in evening. Heaviness of upper, with dim vision. Inability to open on waking at night as from a weight, if she forcibly opens them tension and pressure, and they are only incompletely opened after much rubbing and pressing.

Vision. Dim; intermittent; as if there were a veil between eyes and the light; on reading in evening by a bright light, with dryness of eyes and frequent necessity to wink; as if a veil were before eyes on reading, (>) frequent winking, with pressure on balls, which became a pressure on closing lids, but returned after opening them. Darkness before eyes, then bright stars dancing before eyes; frequent D. Lightnings like electric sparks during the day. When reading the white paper seemed pale red.

Clinical Ciliary neuralgia, the pain goes from the eyes to the top of the head, with feeling as if a cold wind were blowing against the eye. Asthenopia, pain extending from the eye to the top of the head. Affections of the eye in near-sighted people, posterior sclero-choroiditis. Asthenopia with extreme photophobia, cannot read without a gush of tears. Spasmodic affections of eyelids, as if he had to wink all the while.

Ear, Nose and Face

      Cramplike pain in and behind r. ear. Cramplike drawing in concha and auditory canals. Distant ringing in l. ear in evening in bed, (>) forcibly fixing his thoughts away from it. Roaring and noises in ears; R. as from a storm of wind. Violent sneezing, S. at 7 P.M., then shaking extending from back to feet, (<) posterior half of body. Epistaxis of tenacious, thick, black blood, with drops of cold sweat on forehead. Stopped coryza, with cold hands and feet and hot face, (<) eating; r. nostril completely stopped. Circumscribed redness and burning of face. Lips dry, inclined to crack. Smarting of lips.

Mouth

      Throbbing pain as if blood were pumped too quickly through the first l. upper incisor, extending to all l. upper teeth (all decayed), (<) by any one walking across the room or by opening mouth, (>) quiet, it caused throbbing in forehead and vertex, the toothache lasting all day, being bad for an hour, generally alternating with watery diarrhoea, the latter usually from 4 A.M. to 1 or 2 P.M., and before and during the stool cutting from sides of abdomen to centre, (>) bending forward. Tongue coated white, moist, with prominent papillae; coated white and dry in morning, clean after breakfast. Speech refuses its service when angry at reproaches and desirous of justifying herself. Dryness and scraping; D., with burning on one side of upper part of tip of tongue as if a blister would appear, very painful on talking or touching tongue. Heat. Salivation, with biting as from salt on tip of tongue, with sweetish salt taste. Offensive, sickly breath. Offensive, sweetish-sour taste in morning after rising, (>) rinsing mouth. Sweetish taste in back of throat. Bitter taste in back of throat.

TF Allen
Dr. Timothy Field Allen, M.D. ( 1837 - 1902)

Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.