Crocus sativus
par H. A. Roberts — The Rheumatic Remedies
Historical reference for practitioners and students. The statements below reflect the named author’s homeopathic teaching and do not establish treatment effectiveness. This text is not medical advice and must not replace appropriate diagnosis or care.
The pains of Crocus are of a heavy bruised nature with a sensation of tension in the joints. The cracking of the joints on motion and the constant tendency for the limb to go to sleep are marked, and when these conditions are found in nervous, hysterical patients, with the characteristic hæmorrhagic diathesis, it will do its work well.
Crocus is compatible with Nux vom., Puls., Sulph., which are to be compared.
Compare Lach. for pains in eye to top of head; also Rhus tox. and Ruta.
NECK AND BACK
Swelling of muscles of neck.
Sensation of coldness in back.
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES
Pain on moving upper arm as if head of humerus were loose and easily dislocated.
SENSATION AS IF ARMS, ESPECIALLY FOREARMS, WERE BRUISED; THEY FEEL HEAVY.
SENSATION AS IF ARM AND HAND HAD GONE TO SLEEP.
Burning tingling AND TENSION IN JOINTS, ESPECIALLY OF FINGERS.
CRACKING OF JOINTS.
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES
Violent cracking of hip AND KNEE JOINTS ON STOOPING.
SENSATION OF WEAKNESS AND WEARINESS OF LIMBS, ESPECIALLY OF KNEE JOINTS.
Trembling of feet on falling asleep.
Aching of soles from standing.
EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL
GREAT TENDENCY OF LIMBS TO GO TO SLEEP.
GREAT PROSTRATION WITH WEAKNESS OF LIMBS.
Jerking of single muscles or set of muscles.
CONCOMITANTS
SENSATION AS IF SOMETHING ALIVE WERE JUMPING ABOUT IN THE BODY.
SEVERE DRAWING PAIN FROM EYES TO THE TOP OF HEAD.
HÆMORRHAGES FROM VARIOUS PARTS, BLOOD DARK, CLOTTED AND STRINGY.
GREAT PROSTRATION AND WEAKNESS.
AGGRAVATIONS
MORNING.
EVENING AND NIGHT.
MOTION.
AMELIORATIONS
EXTERNAL PRESSURE.