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Crocus Sativus

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Saffron · Crocus · "The Changeable Mood Remedy"

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🎯 A remedy primarily indicated for hemorrhages characterized by dark, stringy, clotted blood and for hysterical or choreic conditions with rapidly changing moods.

📖 Boericke writes:

(CROCUS SATIA)

Is a remedy often useful in haemorrhages 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 literary labor.

👤 Constitution

•Typically affects individuals with a highly excitable, hysterical temperament who experience rapid, extreme fluctuations in mood and physical sensations.

⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See

Feeling in eyes as after violent weeping.

eyes

Eyes feel as if in smoke.

eyes

Sensation as if cold air was rushing through eye (Fluor ac; Syph).

eyes

Dark, stringy, clotted.

nose

Obstinate constipation due to portal stagnation.

abdomen

Sensation of something alive in abdomen, stomach, etc., especially on left side (Calend).

abdomen

Uterine haemorrhage; clots with long strings; worse from least movement.

female

🩺 Systems & Indications

🧠Mind

Useful for emotional instability and mood swings that alternate between mania and melancholy.

Vacillating; pleasant mania; sings and laughs.

Happy and affectionate; then angry.

Sudden changes from hilarity to melancholy.

Vivid recollection from music heard (Lyc).

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💊 Dosage & Potency

Historical record, not a prescription. Boericke published this in 1927. It is not medical advice — consult a qualified practitioner before acting on it.

Summarised from the passage below — Boericke’s own wording is the record.

Tincture to 30th

Other

Primary Dosage

🌿 Remedy Relationships

🚫 Antidotes

Opium →Belladonna →

🔄 Compare With

Trillium Pendulum →China Officinalis →Ipecacuanha →Sabina →Platinum Metallicum →

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

About the repertory →

Crocus Sativus is listed in 96 rubrics across 14 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 24 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Female Sexual System25 Eyes16 Mind13 Modalities8 Abdomen6 Head5 Generalities5 Fever4 Nose3 Nervous System3 Respiratory System3 Locomotor System2 Circulatory System2 Throat1

See all 96 rubrics for Crocus Sativus →