- Allen TF — A compiled symptom record drawing on proving reports and other named observations.
“Crocus sativus, L. Natural order , Iridaceæ. Common names , Saffron, Safran. Preparation , Trituration of the dried stigmas. Authorities. 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 listen”
- Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“Saffron (CROCUS SATIA) Is a remedy often useful in hæmorrhages that are black and stringy. Tingling in various parts. Chorea and hysterical affections. Frequent and extreme changes in sensations and mental conditions. Anger with violence followed by repentance, Laughing mania. Drowsiness and lassitude ; better by…”
- Boger (GA) — Which general headings this remedy belongs under — the analytical scaffolding.
“AIR Open, Amel.:- IN ROOM, agg., air hunger, etc. ALIVE, SENSATIONS (COMP. FORMICATION) ALTERNATING EFFECTS, sides, states, etc.(Comp. Periodicity, Wandering, Waves). BLOWS, shocks, thrusts, crash, explosions, etc. (Comp. Shattered): HEMORRHAGE, bloody discharges LOOSE, as if (Comp. Rolling, Swashing.) LUMPY EFFECTS…”
- Boger (Syn) — Generals and modalities in a short analytical portrait rather than a symptom list.
“MIND. NERVES. Eyes. Circulation. Female organs. Motion. Puberty. Pregnancy. Reading. Heat. Open air. Rapidly changing or alternating symptoms; of opposite moods; of sides; of mind and body, etc. Single muscles twitch; upper eyelids, etc. Faint, drowsy and hysterical. Chorea. Jumping about, as of something alive…”
- Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“sativus. Saffron. N. O. Iridaceæ. Tincture of dried stigmas. Cooper makes a tincture of the fresh young shoots. Abortion, threatened / After-pains / Anger / Asthenopia / Blepharospasm / Brain, congestion of / Chorea / Dysmenia / Fainting / Gastric affections / Hæmoptysis / Hæmorrhages / Headache / Heart, affections of…”
- Guernsey — The leading characteristics — a compact bridge from repertory result to remedy study.
“Always think of this remedy on seeing dark, stringy blood; e.g., in epistaxis, where there are strings of dark blood hanging down from the nose; also in uterine hæmorrhage or hæmoptysis where the blood is dark and string-like, or on raising a clot of the blood, long strings droop from it. Sexual.--Female: Greatly used…”
- Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Saffron. Iridaceæ. Employed by the ancients both as a medicine and a condiment. The provings are principally by Stapf and Gross, and associate provers. See Encyclopædia, vol. 3, p. 578 . CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. Cerebral disturbance , Schmid, Rück. Kl. Erf., vol. 1, p. 20 ; Headache during climacteric period , H., Rück…”
- Hughes & Dake — The source evidence — provings and poisonings retained with their experimental context.
“CROCUS. Crocus sativus, L. Common saffron crocus. Nat. Ord. , Iridacea. I. Provings.- 1 . Symptoms elicited by provings on healthy persons, under superintendence of Drs. Stapf and Gross ; small quantities of tinct. being used, " none of the provers taking more than 12 gr. in all, some much less ." a. Giddy and…”
- Lippe (KN) — Only the symptoms Lippe considered reliable enough to prescribe on.
“Very changeable temperament. Sensation of hopping and jumping, as from something alive in the abdomen and in in the chest. Bleeding from various organs of the body, the blood is black and tough. Tingling in various parts of the body. St. Vitus' dance. These attacks are of a a recurrent nature, are evening attacks and…”
- Lippe (MM) — The strict Hahnemannian reading — the symptom picture without clinical interpretation.
“Gaiety; uncommon mirth and cheerfulness; witty; joking loquacious. Sings involuntarily, and then laughs. Immoderate, improper laughter; changeable disposition. Vertigo when raising the head, with heat of the whole body. Great forgetfulness; loses his ideas when he undertakes to write them down. Giddiness, as if…”
- Lippe (Red) — Keynotes with the most-trusted ones marked as red-line symptoms.
“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…”
- Nash — The comparisons — the remedy set beside the ones it is most often confused with.
“Spasmodic contractions and twitchings of single sets of muscles. Hæmorrhages from different parts; blood black, viscid, clotted, forming into long black strings, from the bleeding orifice. Changeable disposition; laughs, sings, jumps, wants to kiss everybody, or again cries, gets mad, abuses everybody, etc. Sensation…”
