CROCUS.
Crocus sativus, L.
Natural order
, Iridaceæ. Common
names, Saffron, Safran.
Preparation
, Trituration of the dried stigmas.
Authorities.
1, Stapf,
Beitrage zur rein. Arzm., proving with “a small quantity of the tincutre shaken up in
water; none of the provers took over 12 grains of saffron, several far less;” 2, Gross, ibid.; 3, Thorer,
ibid.; 4, Wahle, ibid.; 5,
Boerhaave, in Chem. ex. Msct. Lugd. Batav. Process, 59, from Stapf; 6,
Carp. Pezold, Obs., 55, Vratislav., 1715, effects of a drachm of saffron on a girl of 18,
from Stapf; 7, Riverius, Opp. Med., p. 136, from Stapf; 8, Tralles, de Opio, Sect. 1, p. 114, effects of the odor, from
putting Saffron up in papers in a heated room (from original); 9,
Schulz, Prælut. in Disp. Brandenb., 236, from Stapf; 10,
Zacut. Lusit. ap. Fricc. de Ven., p. 394, from Stapf; 11,
Bergius, Mat. Med., 1, p. 38, from Roth’s résumé; 12,
Sundelin, effects of freshly blooming Crocus, from A. H. Z., 20, 288; 13, same, a girl took 6 grains in one afternoon.
MIND.
► Emotional. ► Childish foolishness; silly dementia, [5]. ► Suddenly there arises
before her fancy a concert which she attended a long time since, as vividly as if she were
listening to it; she even imagines she can hear the different instruments; after a time this
vivid recollection of the past disappears, and she is no more able to recall the music, [1]. ► An unpleasant
sensation, as if he were longing for something without knowing what, with a kind of
apprehension, where with, however, he was very joyous, [1].
► Inclination to sing (after half an hour), [1]. ► If any one happens to
sing a single musical note, she begins involuntarily to sing, and then is obliged to laugh
at herself; she, however, soon sings again in spite of her determination to stop,
[1]. ► Even when
out of humor, quiet repetition of a lively melody, [1].
► Stinging in sleep, [1].
► Children begin to laugh immediately on smelling the
bottle, [9]. ►
Almost constant unbecoming laughter, [5]. [10.] ► Immoderate laughter,
as if he would die, [1]. ►
Sardonic laughter, and attacks of morbid jollity, [13].
► It causes a lively mood in a most unnatural degree, [13]. ► Lively and joyous
mood, much more than natural, [1]. ► Very lively mood, witty, jocose, excessively talkative, [1]. ► Very gay and
laughing mood in a dream, [1]. ►
Great joyousness even in those who are naturally melancholic and hypochondriac, [1]. ► Excessive gayety,
bordering upon delirium; paleness, headache, obscuration of vision, [10]. ► Irresistible inclination
to joke and laugh, with great prostration, and great dilatation of the pupils (after four
hours and a half), [1]. ►
Melancholic, sad hypochondriac mood, [1]. [20.] ► Deep melancholy,
[11]. ► During an
interesting lecture he became suddenly and peculiarly sad, so that he was unable in spite of
every exertion to fix his mind upon the subject (after ten hours), [1]. ► Uneasy, anxious, sad mood,
[1]. ► The
slightest thing puts her out of humor; she then does not know what she is doing; with
anxiety and trembling of the whole body, [4]. ► A slight cause which would usually have made her laugh, now
causes a most violent ill-humor, almost rage, so that she frequently loses her
consciousness; afterwards she is astonished at this outbreak (fourth day), [1]. ► Indifference to everything,
[4]. ► Joy and
sadness alternating; with paleness, [4]. ► A joyous mood frequently alternates with a sad one, [1]. ► Vacillating,
peevish mood; the slightest cause excites his anger, for which, next moment, he is sorry,
which however, soon returns, because his calmness frets him and prevents his exposing his
feelings; usually he changes a hard word which he has on his tongue to a mild one, but the
latter seems too mild, and he now chooses a more severe word, which he again changes to a
still milder one, and so on in speech, though, and action; after several days, in the
evening, [1]. ► *He
takes everything in anger and suddenly repents of having injured others, [1]. [30.] ► *Great ill-humor; the behavior of relatives and friends excites her
to anger, and she is at the point of permitting an outbreak of passion towards them, but at
this moment she feels calm; at the next moment this calmness seems a weakness; she is vexed
with herself, and her anger becomes greater than even; this very unusual vacillation of mood
lasts several hours (second day, towards evening), [1].
► *Disagreeable mood; vehement, peevish, quarrelsome; an hour
later talkative, lively, laughing, singing, [1].
► At times she is very peevish, and morose to others,
and, next moment, wishes to embrace, [1]. ► Intellectual. ►
Disinclination to very work, [1]. ► It suddenly seems, for a moment, as though her thoughts would
vanish, [1]. ► The
least thing which affects her makes her very thoughtless, [4].
► *On attempting to write down anything, he is unable to
do so without loss of ideas, [1]. ► Senses easily vanish, and it becomes black before the eyes, [4]. ► Confusion of mind,
[1]. ► He makes
mistakes about the time or about objects, although they are quite clear and distinctly
visible (after eight hours), [1]. [40.] ► Great forgetfulness;
she asks about something, and next moment entirely forgets that she has done so, [1]. ► Absence of mind
and forgetfulness; he doses not recognize a person whom he frequently sees; on coming near
she seems like one wholly unknown to him; he looks wonderingly at her, remembers having seen
her, but cannot recall her name, and mistakes her for another; only recognizes her after a
long time, [1].
HEAD.
► Confusion and Vertigo.
► Confusion in the head; momentary vertigo, with dull
pain in the eyes, [1]. ►
Tensive confusion first in the forehead, soon afterwards in the whole head, as if
intoxicated (after ten minutes), [1]. ► Vertigo and much confusion of the head, [1]. ► Dizziness and staggering
after rising from lying down, in the night; much whirling in the head, with heat of the
whole body, [1]. ►
Head feels intoxicated; with confusion of the eyes as if he could not see, and sensation of
warmth in the face (after seven minutes), [1]. ► General Head. ►
Dulness in the head, with painful confusion in the occiput (after two hours), [1]. ► Stupidity in the head
(immediately), [1]. ►
Headache, [12]. [50.]
► Headache on moving; it seems as if the brain were loose
and fell back and forth, [1]. ►
Violent headache, lasting three days, [20]. ► Sticking headache with stopped coryza, [3]. ► Sensitive tearings in the
head and right eye; as also in a hollow tooth of the left side; with dimness before the left
eye and a feeling as if a draft of cold air blew into it, [1].
► Forehead. ►
An empty feeling in the forehead, [3]. ► Dulness in the forepart of the head as if drunken and
reeling; in a moderately warm room, not in the open air (after one hour), [1]. ► Dull tension in the left
frontal eminence, [1]. ►
Headache in the forehead (the whole of the second and third days after taking), [1]. ► Headache above the
eyes, with burning and pressure on them, which compels rubbing and is much increased towards
evening, especially in the right, [1]. ► Painful drawing in the forehead, with nausea, [1]. [60.] ►
Pressive-drawing pain in a narrow line down the middle of the forehead (after three quarters
of an hour), [1]. ►
Pressure in the forehead, [1]. ►
Constant sensitive pain beneath the left frontal eminence, as if a dull point were pressing
inward; succeeded by intermitting paroxysms of the same pain (first day), [1]. ► *A transient broad thrust,
extending deep into the brain above the left frontal eminence, so that he started up, from
time to time (after twelve hours); a painful confusion
remains for a moment, relieved by external pressure, [1]. ► Temples. ► *A broad thrust suddenly in the right temple, extending deep into
the brain, so that he started up, [1]. ► Vertex. ► Headache in
the morning after waking; a pressure on the vertex, with heaviness in the whole head, so
that he could scarcely hold it up, [1]. ► Parietals. ► A sudden
cooling sensation in a small spot on the left parietal bone, as if a drop of water fell upon
it from a height, [1]. ►
Momentary drawing headache, like a painful vessel, on the right side, rather externally,
extending from behind forward; recurring at intervals, [1].
► Headache on the right side (after three hours), then
disappearing, [3]. ►
Dull headache in the left side of the head, [1]. [70.] ► Dull pain in the left
side of the head, extending into the right temple as a contractive drawing pain, and then to
the ear and throat, where it is especially sensitive on swallowing, [1]. ► Rhythmical pulsation of the
whole left half of the head and face (after two hours and a half), [1]. ► Occiput. ► Drawing pressure in the right half of the occiput, [1].
EYE.
► Weak, glassy eyes,
with great sleepiness, [1]. ►
Very dry eyes, [1]. ►
*Feeling in the eyes as though he had wept very violently, with a corresponding
expression of countenance, [1]. ► *Feeling in both eyes as though she had wept much;
everything seems swollen and tense without its being noticeable externally; several days
together, [1]. ►
Burning in the eyes, [1]. ►
*After reading a while (even during the day) the eyes pain with a sore burning, and some
dimness, so that he was frequently obliged to wink, [1]. ► Feeling as though he eyes
were smaller than usual (after half an hour), [1]. [80.] ► *Feeling as of biting
smoke in the eyes, [1]. ► Brow. ► Crawling in
the brows so that he is obliged to rub them (after a quarter of an hour), [1]. ► Lids. ► Twitching and jerking in the upper lid, [1]. ► Visible twitching of the lids,
with a sensation as if something must be wiped from the right eye (after a
quarter of an hour), [1]. ►
Sudden muscular twitches in the lids, with crawling in the left eyebrow, with sensation as
if something were in the eye which he must wipe away; very transient (after three-quarters
of an hour), [1]. ►
The lids draw together, with running of water from the eyes, [1].
► *Inclined to press the eyes tightly together from time to
time, [1]. ►
Sensation of heaviness in the upper lid as if it were too heavy, as if the eyes were
constantly inclined to close, with dim vision (after half an hour), [1]. ► Burning in the lids; worse
on closing them, [1]. ►
Violent burning in the lids, [3]. [90.] ► Burning pinching
beneath the left lower lid (after nine hours), [1]. ► On waking at night, she is unable’ to open the eyes, because
it seems as though a weight were lying upon them; if she forcibly opens them there is
tension and pressure, and they can be opened only incompletely after much effort by rubbing
and pressing them, [1]. ►
A long-continuing dull pressive stitch in the left lower lid (after four hours and a half), [1]. ► Sensation of
soreness in the lids, in the evening by the light, with frequent inclination to press them
together and to wipe out the eyes, [1]. ► Itching in the lids of the right eye, extending towards the
outer side, afterwards in both eyes (after seven minutes), [1].
► Violent sticking itching in the left upper lid, which
obliges him to rub it (first evening), [3]. ► Ball. ► Simple aching
of the eyeball, as if he had been looking through too powerful glasses; without dimness of
vision (after one hour and a half), [1]. ► Pain in the right eyeball; sticking at one point; in the
morning, [1]. ►
Lachrymal Apparatus. ► *Feeling as though water
were constantly coming into the eyes, only in the room, not in the open air, [1]. ► Was unable to read
letters without great quantities of water running from the very dim eyes (after eight
hours), [1]. [100.]
► A pressive pain on the eyeballs, with great filling
with water; as the pains left the eye they immediately became very dim (after seven hours), [1]. ► Pupil. ► Dilated pupils (after half an hour), [1]. ► Very much dilated pupils
(after a few minutes), [1]. ►
Pupils somewhat contracted (after a few hours), [1]. ► Vision. ► Vision dim;
he was unable to see clearly; everything seemed enveloped in a fog (after two hours and a
half), [1]. ► It
seems dim about the eyes and obscure before the eyes; not so clear and bright as formerly
(after six minutes), [1]. ►
Darkness before the eyes; it seemed as though bright stars danced before the eyes (second
day), [1]. ►
Frequent blackness before the eyes (first day), [3]. ► Reading in the evening by a bright light was unusually
difficult; it seemed as though the eyes were obscured, wherewith they seemed very dry; she
was frequently obliged to wink, [1]. ► *He is frequently obliged to wink and to wipe his eyes at though a
film of mucus were over them (after four hours and three-quarters), [1]. [110.] ► *The light seems dimmer than usual, as if a veil were between the
eyes and the light, [1]. ► The usually clear and sharp vision seems befogged; that is,
everything seems more indistinct and paler than usual, as if a veil were before the eyes,
which she must constantly remove by wiping; after which the sight becomes clear for a
moment, but the dimness soon returned, at 8 P.M. (after a few hours), [1]. ► On reading it seems as
though there were a veil before the eyes, which were relieved by frequent winking; together
with a pressure in the eyeballs, which became a heaviness on closing the lids, but returned
after opening them, [1]. ►
She was frequently obliged to wink, because it seemed as though a veil were drawn before the
eyes, [1]. ►
Feeling as though a tog were before the eyes (with contracted pupils?), [1]. ► Sudden small lightnings
before the eyes like electric sparks, during the day (after several days), [1]. ► When reading, the white
paper seemed to be pale-red, aurora-colored, [1].
EAR.
► Pain in and behind
the right ear, like a spasm (immediately), [1]. ► Cramplike drawing in the concha of the ear and the auditory
canals, like earache (after ten hours), [1]. ► Hearing. ► Roaring and
noises in the ears, [4]. [120.]
► Roaring in the head, as from a storm of wind, [4]. ► After lying down
in bed, in the evening, he hears a sound in the left ear like a distant softly sounding
ringing, so like a real sound that he can only persuade himself that it is an illusion by
completely stopping the ear, when he hears it almost equally loud; it continues until he
falls asleep, and only disappears on forcibly fixing his thoughts away from it; several
evening, [1].
NOSE.
► Objective. ► Sneezing at different times at 7 P.M. (after eight hours),
immediately followed by shaking chill, extending from the back to the feet; the face was
warm; the chill affected only the posterior half of the body, though the anterior portion of
the chest was also moderately affected; without subsequent heat, [1]. ► Violent sneezing
(soon), [1]. ►
Stopped coryza a few hours after taking; the right nostril is completely stopped, [1]. ► Stopped coryza,
with cold hands and feet, and heat of the face, especially after eating, lasting three days
(relieved by Nux), [1]. ►►
*Epistaxis of very tenacious, thick, black blood, with
cold sweat on the forehead in large drops, [1].
► Painful, cramplike drawing from the left frontal
eminence to the left side of the bony parts of the nose (after half an hour), [1].
FACE.
► Dry lips, much
inclined to crack, [1]. ►
Smarting of the lips, [1].
MOUTH.
► Tongue. [130.] ► White-coated, very
moist tongue; its papillæ were very prominent, [1]. ► White-coated, though rather dry tongue, in the morning; after
breakfast it became clean, [1]. ► General Mouth. ►
Dryness and scraping sensation in the mouth, [1]. ► Dryness in the mouth and very violent burning on one side of
the tip of the tongue, as if a blister would appear; very painful on talking or touching the
tongue; only on the upper surface of the tongue, [1]. ► Unusual warmth in the mouth, [1].
► Saliva. ►
Much water in the mouth, and slight biting on the tip of the tongue, as from salt; with
sweetish, salty taste, [1]. ►
Taste. ► Sweetish taste in the back of the
throat, [1]. ► An
offensive, sweetish sour taste in the mouth in the morning after rising; somewhat relieved
after rinsing the mouth, [1]. ►
Bitter taste in the back of the throat, [1]. ► Reproaches made her very angry; she desires to justify
herself, but the words stop at her lips; she is now vexed at her silence, and again attempts
to talk, but speech refuses its service; she continues to waver in this way and is unable to
utter a word in her own defence, though making every effort to do so, [1].
THROAT.
[140.] ► Sensation in the throat during inspiration, as of sulphur
fumes, [1]. ► A
sensation similar to heartburn rises up into the throat, especially after a meal which is
eaten with relish (after nine hours), [1]. ► After eating, a sensation in the throat as if a stopper were
forced into it, more on empty swallowing than on swallowing food; it lasts until the next
day; wherewith the uvula seems somewhat elongated, with pressive sensation when not
swallowing, [1]. ►
On empty swallowing there is a feeling deep in the throat as if a morsel were sticking there
and could not go down; he was frequently obliged to hawk, especially in the morning after
rising, [1]. ►
Scraping in the throat as after eating very fat food, [1].
► Scraping in the throat before and after coughing, [1]. ► Sharp scraping
sensation in the back of the throat which compels hawking, [1].
► Scraping rough throat, [1]. ► Uvula. ► Feeling as if the uvula were fallen down when swallowing and when
not, [1].
STOMACH.
► Appetite and Thirst.
► Very great canine hunger; she was obliged to eat every
moment (first day, in the afternoon and evening), [3].
[150.] ► *Excessive
thirst for cold drinks in the afternoon, [1].
► Eructation. ►
*Eructations, [1], [13]. ► Tasteless eructations, [1]. ► Frequent empty
eructations in the morning, fasting, [1]. ► Nausea. ► Qualmishness
and discomfort, extending from the pit of the stomach into the abdomen, where they moved
about as if griping would appear, [1]. ► Great qualmishness and sensation of weakness in the pit of
the stomach, very much relieved in the open air, [1]. ► Qualmish, nauseated, [1].
► Nauseated sensation in chest and throat, as if she
would immediately vomit, [1]. ►
Stomach. ► Distension in the stomach and abdomen,
[1]. ► Rumbling and
fermentation in the pit of the stomach (after a quarter of an hour), [1]. [160.] ►
Sinking pain in the pit of the stomach, [1]. ►► *Sensation as of something living and jumping about in the
pit of the stomach, abdomen, arms, and other parts of the body, [1]. ► Burning in the stomach, [1]. ► She seems very
full after very little food, as if she had eaten too much; with loss of appetite, [1]. ► Contractive pain
in the pit of the stomach, and beneath the sternum, [1].
► Drawing in the pit of the stomach, back and forth and
up and down (after half an hour), [1]. ► Some violent stitches in the pit of the stomach (after one
hour), [1]. ►
Sensitiveness of the stomach as after taking cold, [1].
ABDOMEN.
► Hypochondria.
► Painless pinching pressure in the right hypochondrium,
on every inspiration, as from a broad hard body, [1]. ► Umbilical. ► Some
griping above the navel, in the morning, [13]. ► General Abdomen. [170.]
► Movings about in the whole abdomen, with a griping
sensation, and from time to time slight urging to stool, [1].
► Rumbling in the abdomen, while yawning, [13]. ► Repeated rumbling in the
abdomen, in the morning, while lying in bed, [1]. ► Slight rumbling, with discomfort in the upper abdomen, [1]. ►► *Sensation
internally, in both sides of the abdomen, as if something living were jumping about,
with nausea and shivering (after nine hours), [1]. ► Sensation of
emptiness in the abdomen, with complete loss of appetite, [1].
► Fulness and pressure in the abdomen, and at the same
time in the chest, as if she had eaten too much and too rapidly; though not after eating, [1]. ► Sensation of
distension of the abdomen, in the forenoon, with an empty stomach (after half an hour), [1]. ► Griping in a small
spot on the left side of the abdomen, on a line with the navel, [1]. ► The child constantly
complains of aching in the abdomen; he bends himself together (second day), [3]. [180.] ►
Drawing thirst in the upper abdomen, then in the region of the uterus, [4]. ► Drawing colic, as if
menstruation would appear (first day), [1]. ► Transient pain, now in the left, now in the right side of the
abdomen, as from pressure on a sore spot, [1]. ► Colic as from taking cold, [1].
► Griping jerking in the abdomen, after an ordinary drink
of water, [1]. ►
Repeated shocks in the left side of the abdomen, at night, while fully awake, like the
movements of a child at the end of pregnancy, and such as she had felt several months
previously (after several days), [1]. ► A painless shock in the upper abdomen, as from something
living which jumped upward, [1]. ►
Transient tickling sensation shoots upward through the abdomen, [1]. ► Stitches, at times, in one
side of the abdomen, arresting breathing, [1]. ► Hypogastrium and Iliac Regions. ►
*Sensation as though something were living and moving about deep in the lower abdomen,
towards evening, [1]. [190.]
► Repeated bubbling in the lower abdomen (after two
hours), [1]. ►
Sensation of heaviness in the inguinal region, [1]. ► Pressure in the groin, as to menstruation, [1].® 2000
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