Crocus sativus

by C.M. Boger — General Analysis

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, discharges, etc.
SLEEPINESS
STICKY, stringy, etc.(Comp. Adhesive.)
THICK, discharges, etc.

Crocus sativus across the other classic books

Crocus sativus appears in 11 of the 13 classic books on Similia. Each was written to do a different job — here is what each adds on this remedy, with the opening of its entry.

Allen HC — The keynotes that separate this remedy from its nearest neighbours.
“Saffron (Iridaccae) Frequent and extreme changes in sensations ; sudden , from the greatest hilarity to the deepest despondency (Ign., Nux m.). Excessively happy, affectionate, wants to kiss everybody; next moment in a rage . Haemorrhage from any part, blood black, viscid, clotted, forming into long black strings…”
Allen TF — The raw proving record — symptoms as the provers reported them, unedited.
“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 (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…”
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…”
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…”

Crocus sativus in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Crocus sativus in 1,050 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in GENERALITIES (158), MIND (144), EXTREMITIES (116), HEAD (96), FEMALE GENITALIA (64).

NOSE - EPISTAXIS - hot weather
EXPECTORATION - BLOODY,spitting of blood - viscid
FEMALE GENITALIA - METRORRHAGIA - stringy blood
STOMACH - ALIVE,sensation as if something,in
NOSE - EPISTAXIS - blood, - stringy
FACE - DISCOLORATION - pale - heat,during
FEMALE GENITALIA - MENSES - tenacious
PERSPIRATION - SINGLE parts - lower part of body
STOMACH - MOVEMENT in,sensation of
ABDOMEN - ALIVE,sensation of something
FEMALE GENITALIA - METRORRHAGIA - active
FEMALE GENITALIA - MENSES - clotted - dark
EXPECTORATION - BLOODY,spitting of blood - dark
GENERALITIES - FASTING,while
NOSE - EPISTAXIS - blood, - dark,black
SLEEP - COMATOSE
FEMALE GENITALIA - MENSES - dark
FEMALE GENITALIA - ABORTION
GENERALITIES - FLABBY feeling
ABDOMEN - MOVEMENTS in

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Crocus sativus across the other classic books

Crocus sativus appears in 11 of the 13 classic books on Similia. Each was written to do a different job — here is what each adds on this remedy, with the opening of its entry.

Allen HC — The keynotes that separate this remedy from its nearest neighbours.

“Saffron (Iridaccae) Frequent and extreme changes in sensations ; sudden , from the greatest hilarity to the deepest despondency (Ign., Nux m.). Excessively happy, affectionate, wants to kiss everybody; next moment in a rage . Haemorrhage from any part, blood black, viscid, clotted, forming into long black strings…”

Allen TF — The raw proving record — symptoms as the provers reported them, unedited.

“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 (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…”

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…”

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…”