Crocus sativus

Common name: saffron.

Sore burning in the eyes after reading; also dimness; must wink frequently and wipe the eyes, as though a film were before the eyes (N.).

Feeling in the eyes as though she had wept violently, as though water were constantly coming into the eyes (N.).

VERY CHANGEABLE TEMPERAMENT (Ign., Mosch., Puls.).

Epistaxis of very thick blood, with cold sweat on the forehead, yellowish face, and fainting (N.).

METRORRHAGIA, WHEN THE DISCHARGE IS DARK, BLACK, VISCID AND STRINGY; IT SMELLS BADLY, AND IS WORSE ON MOTION (N.).

Stitches in the abdomen arresting respiration (Bt.).

Sensation of hopping and jumping, as from something alive in the abdomen and in the chest.

Tingling in various parts of the body (Acon., Alum., Kali-P., Nux-V., Phos., Plat., Plb., Rhus-T., Zinc.).

BLEEDING FROM VARIOUS ORGANS OF THE BODY (Acaly., Calc., Carb-V., Chin., Ferr-P., Ham., Merc., Nit-Ac.); THE BLOOD IS BLACK AND TOUGH.

Skin scarlet-red (Bell., Ferr-P., Stram., Verat-V.)

St. Vitus's dance (Agar., Tarant.).

These attacks are of a recurrent nature-are evening attacks-and associated with singing, laughing and dancing spells.

Sings during sleep (Bell., Phos-Ac.) (Bt.).

She is worse every evening, with alternations of excessive, happy, affectionate tenderness and rage (G.).

JUMPING, DANCING, LAUGHING, AND WHISTLING (Bell., Stram.) (G.).

WANTS TO KISS EVERYBODY (G.),

DARK, FOUL, STRINGY MENSES (Plat., Ust.) (B.).

Great debility and palpitation of the heart on going up-stairs (Ars., Calc., Phos.) (G.).

The patient is alternately cheerful or depressed. In the former state she will sing, dance, jump, laugh and whistle, love and want to kiss everybody. In the latter, she will cry, get into a rage, abuse her friends, and then repent it (N.).

Headache, worse during menses (Bell., Glon., Graph., Kreos., Lyc., Nat-M., Sep.) (Br.).

Spasmodic contractions and twitchings of single sets of muscles (Agar., Ign., Zinc.) (A.).

Giddiness with fainting (Chin., Kali-P., Phos-Ac.).

Sensation of coldness in the back (Bol., Cact., Caps., Eup-P., Eup-Purp., Lach., Nat-M., Nat-S., Puls., Sil., Sulph., Verat.).

Eyes dry on reading (Arg-N.) (T.).

Music affects her. Hearing one sing, she begs involuntarily to join in; but there is not the subsequent relief from music (F.).

AGGRAVATION: In the morning; from fasting; in a warm room; before breakfast; during pregnancy; looking fixedly at an object; and from lying down.

AMELIORATION: In the open air; and after breakfast.

RELATIONSHIP: Compare: Acon., Bell., Calc., Chin., Ham., Ign., Ipec., Kali-B., Lach., Merc., Nat-M., Plat., Phos., Sab., Sep., Thuj., Tril., and Ust.

Complements: Nux-V., Puls. and Sulph.

Antidote: Acon., Bell. and Opium.