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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).
🔑 Modalities
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💊 Dosage & Potency
Tincture to 30th
Other
🕒As directed
Primary Dosage
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🚫 Antidotes
Opium →Belladonna →
🔄 Compare With
Trillium Pendulum →China Officinalis →Ipecacuanha →Sabina →Platinum Metallicum →
📚 Sources & References

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