CROCUS SATIVUS (KESAR)Liquid

Crocus sativus is a well-regarded homoeopathic medicine prepared from the fresh young shoots of Saffron belonging from Iridaceae family, known for its action on the nervous system, circulatory system, and female reproductive organs. It is especially helpful in black, stringy hemorrhages, emotional fluctuations, and conditions involving chorea, hysteria, and vivid sensory perception. Characterized by extreme changes in mood, sudden bursts of happiness, anger, and remorse, as well as sensations of something alive within the body, this medicine is well-suited for individuals with high sensitivity, erratic nervous states, and unusual physical sensations.

Common Name: Saffron

SBL’s Crocus sativus can be helpful in the following conditions:

Emotional and Mental Instability

• Helps in sudden emotional changes from laughter to sadness and from affection to anger.
• Crocus sativus aids in pleasant mania, singing, laughing, and overly cheerful or hysterical states.
• Supports vacillating moods, impulsive anger followed by repentance.
• Mental dullness, drowsiness, and lassitude, especially improved by intellectual activity.
• Manages vivid mental impressions and memory triggers from music.

Pulsation and Throbbing Sensations

• Aids in throbbing sensations in the head, especially during climacteric or menstruation.
• Supports bounding and jerking feelings, particularly in the breast and abdomen.
• Helps in pulsating congestion in the pelvic and cephalic regions linked to hormonal fluctuations.

Visual and Ocular Disturbances

• Relieves the sensation of electric sparks and blurred vision as if looking through too-sharp spectacles.
• Manages ciliary neuralgia, with pain radiating from eyes to the head.
• Aids in wiping the eyes frequently due to a feeling of water or mucus.
• Supports extreme photophobia, asthenopia, and a smoky or wind-blown feeling in the eyes.
• Helps in heaviness of eyelids and slowly reactive, dilated pupils.
• Threatened glaucoma and retinal artery embolism.

Bleeding and Hemorrhagic Tendencies

• Supports dark, stringy epistaxis and hemorrhages with black, clotted blood.
• Helps in uterine hemorrhages with long, stringy clots, worse from slightest movement.
• Aids in menstrual flow that is too frequent, dark, slimy, and viscid.
• Manages threatened abortion with dark hemorrhages.

Unusual Body Sensations

• Crawling, tingling, and formication sensations throughout the body.
• Helps in feeling as though something alive is moving in the abdomen, stomach, or breasts.
• Aids in cold sensations in the back, as if cold water were thrown on it.
• Supports a strange drawing sensation in the breast, as if pulled backward by a thread.

Digestive and Anorectal Complaints

• Manages obstinate constipation, particularly from portal congestion.
• Supports constipation in infants.
• Helps in crawling and stitching in the anus, along with a heavy, swollen abdominal feeling.

Cough and Respiratory Affection

• Crocus sativus relieves wheezy cough with frothy, thread-like expectoration.
• Helps in sensation of a lengthened uvula, especially in hysterical states.
• Aids in offensive, sickly-smelling breath during coughing episodes.
• Worse on lying down.

Muscle Twitches and Motor Disturbances

• Aids in spasmodic contractions, single muscle twitching, and limb jerking.
• Helps in choreic and hysterical conditions with alternating motor and emotional symptoms.
• Supports cracking in hip joints and knees, and weakness in lower limbs.
• Manages numbness in upper limbs and sleep-like sensations in arms and hands.
• Relieves ankle and sole pain with general leg fatigue.

Temperature Sensitivity and Sleep

• Supports icy cold extremities and cold sensations, unrelieved by activity.
• Aids in drowsiness and disturbed sleep with emotional dreams.