23/10/2025
CROCUS SATIVUS
BOTANICAL NAME: Crocus sativus Linn.
FAMILY: Iridaceae
COMMON NAMES: English: Saffron; Hindi: Kesar, Zafran; Malayalam: Kunkumappu; Tamil: Kunkumappu; Telegu: Kunkuma-puvva.
DESCRIPTION: A perennial, low growing, bulbous plant. Corm globular producing 6-9 sessile leaves surrounded in lower part by 4-5 broad membranous scales. Flowers terminal on scape. Perianth pale reddish- purple forming cylindrical tube about 10 cm long terminating in 6 oblong oval segments.
DISTRIBUTION: India in Kashmir, southern Europe and Asia.
PART USED: Dried stigma of the flower.
HOMOEOPATHIC USES
CHOREA AND HYSTERIA: Hysteria with laughing mania. Rapidly or alternating mental disposition, opposite to each other. Anger with violence rapidly, followed by abject repentance, laughter quickly followed by tears. Changeable disposition. Vacillating moods. Happy and affectionate, then angry. Sings on hearing a single note sung. Jumping, dancing, laughing, whistling, wants to kiss everybody. Sensation as if something alive was moving about the abdomen or chest with nausea and faintness. Sensation in the eyes as if the room was filled with smoke, as if had been weeping, as of old wind blowing across the eyes. Better from eyelids are tightly closed.
NOSEBLEED: Bleeding from nose, strings of dark blood hanging down the nose with faintness and cold sweat on forehead. Nosebleed at puberty of young girls.
ABORTION, THREATENED: Threatened abortion, especially when is dark and stringy. Movement of fetus are violent and painful.
MENORRHAGE: Me**es heavy. Blood clotted with long strings, worse from least movement. Hemorrhage is aggravated during 2-3 days of accustomed menstrual flow.
MENOPAUSE: Throbbing and pulsating headache during climacteric.
CONSTIPATION: Obstinate constipation due to portal stagnation.
CANCER: Cancer of large intestine. Crawling and stitches in a**s with bleeding of dark black blood.
POTENCY: Mother tincture, 30 potency.
