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CROCUS SATIVUS

Saffron

Clinical Picture:
Frequent and extreme emotional changes; from the greatest hilarity to the deepest despondency (Ignatia amara, Nux moschata).
Excessively happy, affectionate, wants to kiss everybody; the next moment in a violent rage.
Hemorrhage from any part; blood black, viscid, clotted, forming into long black strings hanging from the bleeding surface (Elaps corallinus).
Headache (in women at the climacteric); throbbing, pulsating, increases during the days of accustomed menstrual flow; nervous or menstrual headache before, during or after flow (Lachesis, Lilium tigrinum, Sepia).
Nosebleed; black, tenacious, stringy, every drop can be turned into a thread; with cold sweat in large drops on forehead (cold sweat, but wants to be fanned; with bright red blood: Carbo vegetabilis) in children who develop too rapidly (Calcarea carbonica, Phosphorus).

Modalities:
Worse:

Lying down.
Hot weather.
Warm room.
In the morning.
Fasting.
Before breakfast.
Looking fixedly at an object.
Better:
In open air.

Relations:
Nux vomica, Pulsatilla nigricans and Sulphur follow Crocus sativus well in nearly all disorders.

Summary of Indications:
Extreme emotional affections - hemorrhage - menstrual headaches.

Antidotes:
Aconitum napellus
Belladonna atropa
Opium