Crocus Sativus

► On attempting to write something down, cannot, on account of loss of recollection. ► Signs involuntarily, on hearing even a single note sung, laughs at herself ; but soon signs again in spite of her determination to stop. ► Changeable disposition : depression and hilarity ; or, ill-humour and lively mood, alternating. ► Restless, anxious, sorrowful mood.

► Vertigo, with confusion. ► Congestion of the head, with nosebleed.

► Sudden broad thrust ; in the right temple ; extending into the brain, causing him to start ; above the left frontal eminence, extending deep into the brain.

► Must wink and wipe the eyes, frequently, as though a film of mucus were over them. ► The light seems dimmer than usual, as if obscured by a veil. ► Appearance of a spot jumping up and down before sight. ► Pupils much dilated. ► Feeling as though water were constantly coming in the eyes ; only in the room. ► Feeling in the eyes, like after much weeping. ► Sore burning in the eyes after reading a while ; also dimness, must wink frequent. ► Twitching and itching in the upper lid. ► Inclined to press lids tightly together from time to time.

► Humming in the ears, causing impairment of hearing, worse when stooping.

► Epistaxis of very tenacious, thick, black blood, with cold sweat in large drops, on the forehead. ► Violent sneezing.

► Yellowish earthy color of the face.

► Tongue coated white, papillae elevated, better after breakfast.

► Feeling as if the uvula were elongated, during and when not swallowing.

► Excessive thirst for cold drinks.

► Eructations, tasteless. ► Violent heart-burn. ► Feeling of nausea in the chest and throat.

► Distension of the stomach and abdomen. ► Sensation of fermentation, in the stomach. ► Sensation as if something living were jumping about in pit of stomach.

► Sensation in the abdomen, as if something living were jumping about, with nausea and faintness. ► Stitches in the abdomen arresting respiration, with uterine inflammation.

► Stool contain dark, stringy blood. ► Sensitive, dull, long stitch near left side of anus, from time to time. ► Crawling in the anus, as from thread-worms. ► Intolerable writhing in the anus.

► Excitement of sexual desire.

► Sensation as if the menses would appear, with colic and pressing towards the genitals. ► Uterine flow during full or new moon. ► Menses profuse and lasting too long, but come at proper time ; blood dark, clotted, stringy. ► Metrorrhagia of dark, viscid, stringy blood, in black clots, after overheating, straining or lifting, also after abortion or delivery ; worse from slightest motion.

► Lochia dark, stringy.

► Offensive sickly-odor of the breath.

► Violent attack of exhausting dry cough, relieved by laying the head on the pit of stomach. ► Cough, with spitting of blood.

► Heaviness of the chest, must frequent take a deep breath. ► Dull stitches in the left chest.

► Pulse : feverish, accelerated. ► Anxious palpitation of the heart. ► Palpitation of the heart on going up stairs.

► Pain on moving the upper arm, as if the head of the humerus were loose and would easily be isolated. ► Chilblains on the hands and fingers.

► Violent cracking of the hip or knee joint, when stooping. ► Knees give way. ► Chilblains on the toes. ► Burning and tingling of the feet. ► Aching of the soles from standing.

► Excessive prostration and weariness in the evening, as from severe physical exertion, accompanied by great sleepiness, with feeling as if the jerking in the muscles. ► Spasmodic contraction of single sets of muscles. ► Jumping, dancing, laughing, whistling, wants to kiss everybody.

► Signs in sleep. ► Dreams : confused ; frightful.

► Room : 5. Overheating : 23.

► Chill in the afternoon, growing worse toward evening, with shivering from the back down the legs ; trembling. ► Thirst, with the chill and heat. ► Flushes of internal heat, with pricking and crawling in skin. ► Heat, principally of head and face, with paleness of cheeks and thirst. ► Heat, principally of head and face, with paleness of cheeks and thirst. ► Heat, with intense redness of race, and distension of blood-vessels. ► Violent heat over whole body chiefly in the head, with redness of the face and great thirst without much dryness of the mouth toward evening. ► Sweat scant, only at night, and then cold and debilitating. ► Sweat only on the lower half of the body.

► New and full moon : 23.

► Right : 3. Left : 3, 20, 28.

► Sensation, as of something living, jumping, in various parts.

► Pricking and crawling in the skin. ► Scarlet-colored spots on the skin. ► Scarlet redness of the skin. ► Painful suppurations of bruised parts (old cicatrized wounds reopen and suppurate).

► Antidotes to Croc. sat., Acon., Bellad., Opium.