Crocus Sativus


Crocus Sativus symptoms of the homeopathy remedy from Keynotes and Red Line Symptoms by Adolph von Lippe. What are the symptoms of Crocus Sativus? Keynote indications and uses of Crocus Sativus…


COMMON NAME:

      SAFFRON.

Symptoms

      Sore burning in the eyes after reading; also dimness; must wink frequently and wipe the eyes, as though a film were before the eyes (N.).

Feeling in the eyes as though she had wept violently, as though water were constantly coming into the eyes (N.).

VERY CHANGEABLE TEMPERAMENT (Ignatia, Mosch., Pulsatilla).

Epistaxis of very thick blood, with cold sweat on the forehead, yellowish face, and fainting (N.).

METRORRHAGIA, WHEN THE DISCHARGE IS DARK, BLACK, VISCID AND STRINGY; IT SMELLS BADLY, AND IS WORSE ON MOTION (N.).

Stitches in the abdomen arresting respiration (Bt.).

Sensation of hopping and jumping, as from something alive in the abdomen and in the chest.

Tingling in various parts of the body (Aconite, Alumina, Kali-P., Nux vomica, Phosphorus, Platina, Plb., Rhus toxicodendron, Zincum met.).

BLEEDING FROM VARIOUS ORGANS OF THE BODY (Acaly., Calcarea, Carbo vegetabilis, China, Ferr- P., Hamamelis, Mercurius, Acid nitricum); THE BLOOD IS BLACK AND TOUGH.

Skin scarlet-red (Belladonna, Ferr-P., Stramonium, Verat-V.).

St. Vitus’s dance (Agaricus, tarent.).

These attacks are of a recurrent nature–are evening attacks-and associated with singing, laughing and dancing spells.

Sings during sleep (Belladonna, Acid phosphoricum.) (Bt.).

She is worse every evening, with alternations of excessive, happy, affectionate tenderness and rage (G.).

JUMPING, DANCING, LAUGHING, AND WHISTLING (Belladonna, Stramonium) (G.).

WANTS TO KISS EVERYBODY (G.).

DARK, FOUL, STRINGY MENSES (Platina, Ustilago) (B.).

Great debility and palpitation of the heart on going up-stairs (Arsenicum, Calcarea, Phosphorus) (G.).

The patient is alternately cheerful or depressed. In the former state she will sung, dance, jump, laugh and whistle, love and want to kiss everybody. In the latter, she will cry, get into a rage, abuse her friends, and then repent it (N.).

Headache, worse during menses (Belladonna, Gloninum, Graphites, Kreosotum, Lycopodium, Natrum muriaticum, Sepia) (Br.).

Spasmodic contractions and twitchings of single sets of muscles (Agaricus, Ignatia, Zincum met.) (A.).

Giddiness with fainting (China, Kali-P., Acid phosphoricum.).

Sensation of coldness in the back (Bol., Cact., Caps., Eup-P., Eup-Purp., Lachesis, Natrum muriaticum, Nat-S., Pulsatilla, Silicea, Sulphur, Veratrum).

Eyes dry on reading (Argentum nitricum) (T.).

Music affects her. Hearing one sing, she begs involuntarily to join in; but there is not the subsequent relief from music (F.).

AGGRAVATION:

      In the morning; from fasting; in a warm room; before breakfast; during pregnancy; looking fixedly at an object; and from lying down.

AMELIORATION:

      In the open air; and after breakfast.

RELATIONSHIP:

      Compare: Aconite, Belladonna, Calcarea, China, Hamamelis, Ignatia, Ipecac., Kali bichromicum, Lachesis, Mercurius, Natrum muriaticum, Platina, Phosphorus, Sabina, Sepia, Thuja, Tril., and Ustilago

Complements: Nux vomica, Pulsatilla and Sulph.

Antidote: Aconite, Belladonna and Opium.

Adolph Lippe
Adolph Lippe (born near Goerlitz, Prussia, 11 May 1812; died in Philadelphia, 23 January 1888) was a homeopathic physician who worked in the United States. Adolph got a legal education at Berlin. After completing his legal studies, Lippe became interested in homeopathy, and emigrated to the United States in 1837 to further his study. In 1838, he enrolled in the North American Academy of Homeopathy at Allentown, Pennsylvania, from where he graduated in 1841. He settled in Philadelphia, where from 1863 until 1868 he was professor of materia medica in the Homeopathic College of Pennsylvania. Besides some essays and treatises from the French, German, and Italian which became standards, Lippe was the author of:
Comparative Materia Medica (Philadelphia, 1854)
Text-Book of Materia Medica (1866)