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Crocus Satavus

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Crocus Satavus Reference Specimen Botanical Specimen and Materia Medica Identification
🧬 Remedy Miasm: Sycotic Miasm The Sycotic miasm is characterized by overgrowth and retention. It manifests as warts, tumors, fibroids, joint pain, excessive discharges, and suspicious or secretive mental states.
GENERAL
  • Characteristic hemorrhage from various parts when the blood is black, stringy, clotting, forming itself into long black strings hanging from the bleeding orifice.
  • Viscidblood,dark.
  • Clotting.
  • Tumors.
  • Lipoma.
  • Encephaloma.
  • Symptoms rapidly change sides or mental and physical symptoms alternate.
  • Rapid alternation of mental conditions.
  • Jerking or spasmodic contraction of single sets of muscles.
  • Chorea and hysteria.
  • Chorea every seven days with hilarity, singing and dancing.
  • Sensation as if something alive were moving internally in abdomen, chest etc.
  • with nausea, faintness and shivering or jumping about various parts.
  • Drowsiness, better by literary occupation.
  • Prostration, weariness, fainting with nosebleed, metrorrhagia
MODALITIES ETC
  • Better after breakfast.
  • Better in open air.
  • Better yawning, desire to take a long breath.
  • Worse from motion.
  • Worse lyingdown.
  • Worse reading.
  • Worse looking fixedly at an object.
  • Wor se from puberty.
  • Worse pregnancy.
  • Worse fasting.
  • Worse during new and full moon.
  • Worse hot weather.
  • Worse heat, warm room.
  • Worse in morning
RELATIONSHIPS
📊 Side-by-Side Comparison:

Antidote: Op., Bell. Compare: (1) Ip., Trill., Plat., Chin., Phos., Ust., Sabin.

MIND
  • Mind very much distracted.
  • Forgetful.
  • Impressionable, affectionate and moody.
  • Loss of ideas on attempting to write anything down.
  • Childish behavior.
  • Confusion, better open air.
  • Industrious.
  • Irritability, takes everything in bad part.
  • Mistakes in time, confounds present with past.
  • Uneasy, anxious, sorrowful mood.
  • Happy and affectionate, then angry.
  • Changeable disposition.
  • Rapidly changing or alternating mental disposition, opposite to each other.
  • Anger with violence, rapidly followed by abject repentance.
  • Remorse, repents quickly.
  • Laughter quickly followed by tears.
  • Cheerful at night.
  • Cheerful, alternating with sadness, violence.
  • Hysterical laughter, laughing mania.
  • Invol untary laughter and weeping, worse music.
  • Jesting.
  • Loquacious.
  • Vivid recollection from music heard (Lyc.).
  • Singing in sleep.
  • Sings on hearing a single note sung.
  • Jumping, dancing, laughing, whistling, wants to kiss everybody.
  • Delusion he is unfit for business.
  • Mind very much distracted.
  • Forgetful.
  • Impressionable, affectionate and moody.
  • Loss of ideas on attempting to write anything down.
  • Childish behavior.
  • Confusion, better open air.
  • Industrious.
  • Irritability, takes everything in bad part.
  • Mistakes in time, confounds present with past.
  • Uneasy, anxious, sorrowful mood.
  • Happy and affectionate, then angry.
  • Changeable disposition.
  • Rapidly changing or alternating mental disposition, opposite to each other.
  • Anger with violence, rapidly followed by abject repentance.
  • Remorse, repents quickly.
  • Laughter quickly followed by tears.
  • Cheerful at night.
  • Cheerful, alternating with sadness, violence.
  • Hysterical laughter, laughing mania.
  • Invol untary laughter and weeping, worse music.
  • Jesting.
  • Loquacious.
  • Vivid recollection from music heard (Lyc.).
  • Singing in sleep.
  • Sings on hearing a single note sung.
  • Jumping, dancing, laughing, whistling, wants to kiss everybody.
  • Delusion he is unfit for business
HEAD
  • Throbbing, pulsating headache at menopausal period, during menses, or instead of menses, better pressure.
  • Throbbing, pulsating headache at menopausal period, during menses, or instead of menses, better pressure
EYES
  • Dry.
  • burning, as after weeping.
  • Asthenopia with extreme photophobia.
  • Pupils enlarged and react slowly.
  • Threatened glaucoma, embolism of central retinal artery.
  • Ciliary neuralgia, pain from eyes to top of head.
  • Lachrymation when reading.
  • Must wipe eyes as if mucus or water were in them.
  • Sensation as if she had been looking through too sharp spectacles.
  • Feels as if smoke in eyes.
  • Sensation as if cold air was rushing through eye (Fl- ac., Syph.).
  • Electric sparks or jumping spots before eyes.
  • Twitching of the upper eyelid.
  • Lids heavy
EARS
  • Noises in ears with hardness of hearing, worse stooping
FACE
  • Hot, red, or alternating with paleness
MOUTH
  • Unusual warmth in mouth.
  • Sour taste.
  • Foul, offensive, sickly breath.
  • Nose - Nosebleed, strings of dark blood hanging down the nose, with faintness and cold sweat on forehead.
  • Nosebleed at puberty of young girls »
THROAT
  • Feeling as if uvula were elongated, during and when not swallowing Crocus sativus in hysteria.
  • Feeling of nausea in throat and chest.
  • COMMENTS - Cooper and Culpepper agreed in thinking that Croc, is very similar to Calen, in its action.
  • It is a vulnerary and corresponds to the effects of blows (deafness, tumors, etc.).
  • Dark hemorrhage.
  • Uterine hemorrhage of dark, black, stringy blood, often'associated with miscarriages or cancer of the uterus (Sec.).
  • Painful suppuration of bruised parts, old scars re-open and suppurate.
  • Lipoma and encephaloma of scalp.
  • Used externally to scatter indolent tumors and ecchymosis.
  • Tumor with ulceration and characteristic bleeding.
  • A warm sensation ascending to the heart, impeding breathing, better by yawning.
  • Tingling, crawling, pricking and itching occur in the skin.
  • Scarlet redness of the whole body or scarlet spots on the skin.
  • A domestic remedy for bringing out measles eruptions.
  • Stitches, shocks, throbbings, broad thrusts.
  • Cuttings and jerkings.
  • Twitchings of single sets of muscles (chorea).
  • Sensitive to music, involuntarily joins in on hearing anyone sing.
  • Croc, has been successfully given to pregnant women who have complained of violent fetal movements, as well as in cases of imaginary pregnancy.
  • Clarke once cured a young artist who had become subject to violent outbursts of rage.
  • He would take up a knife to throw at his mother, with whom he lived, and almost immediately after would be abjectly repentant.
  • The household was on the point of being broken up when the trouble was completely removed b y Croc.
  • On one occasion in a hospital, Clarke happened to see a young girl who was des perately ill with heart failure and valvular disease in a fit of hysterical laughter.
  • This made him think of Croc.
  • The only definite sensation she complained of in the h eart region was a “jumping” sen sation.
  • Croc.
  • 30c was given and very soon she was able to lie down flat (after having been propped up for weeks) and from that time she made a rapid recovery.
  • Cooper gave single doses of the tincture in a case of malignant disease of the side following extirpation ofacancerous kidney.
  • The result was an arrest of progress after an initial aggravation and complete relief of pain.
  • The patient was a woman, who had formerly had hemorrhages with dark clots during her periods and f eeling of weight towards womb.
  • She had also the sensation of something moving in the abdomen.
  • Teste cited from Murray the case of several children “who were seized with an extraordinary laughing mania from having, smelled of leather bottles that hadcontained essence of saffron.”
CHEST
  • Sensation of heat ascending to the heart impeding breathing, better yawning.
  • Dull stitches in the left chest.
  • Anxious palpitation, worse ascending stairs.
  • Heaviness in chest, must take deep breath.
  • Dry cough, better laying the hand on the pit of the stomach.
  • Wheezy cough with frothy expectoration, containing threads like fine twine, worse lying down.
  • Expector ation stringy like thread
ABDOMEN
  • Gastric troubles, bloatedness, belchings, vomiting etc.
  • Temperature - Flushes of internal heat with prickling andcrawling in skin.
  • Sweat only on the lower half of the body.
  • Continuous, foul smelling sweat, worse debility, hemorrhages after childbirth.
  • Abdomen swollen, feeling of something heavy.
  • Sensation as if something living were jumping about in the stomach and abdomen (left side) (Thuj.).
  • Great thirst for cold drinks
GENITALS ETC
  • Excitement of sexual desire.
  • Menses dark, viscid, too frequent and copious, black and slimy.
  • Urging of blood to genitals.
  • Uterine hemorrhage, clots with long strings, worse from least movement, worse during full or new moon.
  • Threatened miscarriage, especially when hemorrhage is dark and stringy.
  • False pregnancy.
  • Movements of fetus are violent and painful
EXTREMITIES, LIMBS
  • Spasmodic contractions and twitch - ings of single set of muscles.
  • Chorea and hysteria with great alteration of feeling.
  • Upper limbs fall asleep.
  • Weakness in knees and legs.
  • Cracking in hip joint and knees, worse stooping.
  • Pain in ankles and soles.
  • Cold as ice with metrorrhagia, nosebleed
BACK AND NECK
  • Sudden feeling of coldness in back, as if cold water were thrown over him, with icy -cold limbs.
  • Breasts - Jumping pain in left breast, as if drawn towards the back, as if jumping alive in right breast.
  • Jerking pain in interior of left breast, as if drawn toward back by means of thread (Crot-t.).
  • Causations - Effects of blows.
  • Constitutions - Suited to women and hysterical men
SKIN
  • Prickling and crawling.
  • Scarlet red ness or spots on the skin.
  • Old scars open and suppurate.
  • Lipoma.
  • Encephaloma.
  • Disperses tumors
SLEEP
  • Deep sleep.
  • Sings in sleep

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📚 Literature Citation & References:
This clinical profile is compiled from: Andrew Chevallier, FNIMH — Herbal Remedies (Eyewitness Companions), and Dr. David Keifer, MD — Herbal Remedies Reference Guide. Synced with traditional botanical use and pharmacological outlines.
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