Crocus – Saffron
Crocus – Saffron
The mother tincture is prepared from the dried stigmas of the plant, Crocus sativus L., a native of the Orient and cultivated in Southern Europe. N.O. Iridaceae.
The main indications are:
Burning in the eyes after reading for a short time; muscae volitantes (floaters). Sensation as if a foetus were moving within the abdomen. Metrorrhagias, miscar- riage. Haemorrhages aggravated by the slightest movement, curdled like an icicle. Sydenham’s chorea.
The other symptoms obtained from the provings are essential, for after large doses narcotic symptoms are observed, likewise a surge of blood to the head, which may reach the point of apoplexy, with intoxication and dulled senses, delirium and lethar- gy to the point of coma. Haemorrhages, particularly uterine, are generally frequent. There is a rare symptom from the provings which may lead us to this remedy: the sensation of dull, blunt thrusts, blows and pains, occurring suddenly, not lasting long, and recurring again in attacks. These are often caused or aggravated by move- ment. They are at their most violent in the mornings and quiet down on walking
slowly in the open air. There may also be a sensation as if something were hopping about inside the body or on it.
A striking symptom is the excessive jollity and delight, mood for fun and joking, immoderate laughter, and a tendency to sing and behave deliriously with musical ideas. If musical tones are registered by the ear, the patient joins in, singing involun- tarily. This is accompanied by a rapid change of moods with no obvious cause, an excessive vacillation from one extreme of mood to the other.
Women experience labour-like pains in the abdomen such as might occur before the monthly period.
Crocus should also be tried in hysterical conditions, paroxysmal laughing and cry- ing, St. Vitus’ dance, melancholia, masked intermittent fever, gouty conditions and especially in haemorrhage of dark, thick and easily coagulated blood (like an icicle). The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Crocus sativus, published the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for crocus: haemorrhages; tendency to painful spasmodic conditions; quickly change-