Crocus Sativa
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William Boericke 1922
Sudden feeling of coldness in back as if cold water were thrown over him; icycold
Compare
William Boericke 1922
I pec.; Trillium; Plat.; China; Sabina.
Dose
William Boericke 1922
Tincture, to thirtieth attentuation.
Extremities
William Boericke 1922
Spasmodic contractions and twitchings of single set of muscles. Chorea and hysteria, with great alterations of feeling. Whole upper extremity falls asleep. 280 CROCUS SATTVA — CROTALUS HORRIDUS
Female
William Boericke 1922
Sensation of something alive and moving in stomach and in the abdomen, which is swollen, or of something dead and heavy. Threatened abortion, especially when haemorrhage is dark and stringy. Urging of blood to genitals. Menses dark, viscid, too fre- Quent and copious, black and slimy. Uterine haemorrhage; clots with long strings; worse from least movement. Jerking pain in interior of left breast, as if drawn toward back by means of thread. [Crot. fig.] A bounding feeling, as if something alive in right breast.
Guiding symptoms
William Boericke 1922
as if in smoke. Ciliary neuralgia, pain from eyes to top of
Head
William Boericke 1922
Sensation as if cold air was rushing through eye. [Fluor, ac.; Syph.] Asthenopia with extreme photophobia.
Modalities
William Boericke 1922
Worse, lying down, hot weather, warm room, in morning, fasting, before breakfast, looking fixedly at an object. Better, in open air.
Nose
William Boericke 1922
Bloody urine.
William Boericke 1922
Epistaxis.
Relationships
William Boericke 1922
Antidote: Opium; Bell.
Respiratory
William Boericke 1922
Wheezy cougn, with frothy expectoration, containing threads like fine twine; worse, lying down. Breath has offensive, sickly smell. Feeling as if the uvula is elongated in hysterical patients. Haemorrhages. — Dark, stringy, clotted. Epistaxis; strings of dark blood hanging down the
Stomach
William Boericke 1922
Obstinate constipation due to portal stagnation. Constipation in infants. Crawling and stitches in anus. Sensation of something alive in abdomen, stomach, etc., especially on left side. [Calend.]
References
This monograph is an original summary faithful to the classical tradition. It condenses material from these public-domain sources:
- James Tyler Kent, Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica (1905)Primary remedy pictures; characteristic mental and general symptoms. · Public domain (USA, pre-1930 publication)
- William Boericke, Pocket Manual of Homeopathic Materia Medica and Repertory (1927)Reproduced here in full — the complete classical repertory-style monographs. · Public domain (USA, pre-1930 publication)
- Constantine Hering, The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica (1879–1891)Confirmed symptom aggregates behind the section organization. · Public domain
- Timothy Field Allen, Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica (1874–1879)Provings background referenced by the verification tradition. · Public domain
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