(Meadow Saffron)
Affects markedly the muscular tissues, periosteum,
and synovial membranes of joints. Has specific power of relieving the gouty
paroxysms. It seems to be more beneficial in chronic affections of these
parts. The parts are red, hot, swollen. Tearing pains; worse, in the
evening and at night and from touch; stubbing the toes hurts exceedingly.
There is always great prostration, internal coldness, and
tendency to collapse. Effects of night watching and hard study. Shocks as
from electricity through one half of body. Bad effects from suppressed
sweat. Dreams of mice. | ||
| Head. Headache
chiefly frontal and temporal, but also occipital and in nape of neck, worse
afternoon and evening. | ||
| Eyes. Pupils
unequal; left pupil contracted. Variations in visual acuity. Lachrymation
worse in open air; violent tearing pain in eyes. Dim vision after reading.
Spots before eyes. | ||
| Ears. Itching
in ears; sharp, shooting pains below right tragus. | ||
| Face. Pain in
facial muscles, moving about. Tingling and edematous swelling; cheeks red,
hot, sweaty. Very irritable with the pains. [Cham.]
Pain behind angle of right lower jaw. | ||
| Stomach. Dry
mouth, tongue burns, gums and teeth pain. Thirst; pain in stomach
and flatulence. The smell of food causes nausea even to fainting,
especially fish. Profuse salivary secretion. Vomiting of mucus, bile and
food; worse, any motion; great coldness in stomach. Craving for various
things, but is averse to them when smelling them, seized then with
nausea. Gouty gastralgia. Burning or icy coldness in stomach and
abdomen. Thirst for effervescent, alcoholic beverages. Pain in transverse
colon. | ||
| Abdomen.
Distention of abdomen, with gas, inability to stretch out legs.
Borborygmi. Pain over liver. Cecum and ascending colon much distended.
Fullness and continuous rumbling. Ascites. | ||
| Stool. Painful,
scanty, transparent, jelly-like mucus; pain, as if anus were torn open,
with prolapse. Autumnal dysentery; stools contain white shreddy
particles in large quantities. Ineffectual pressing; feels feces in
rectum, but cannot expel them. | ||
| Female.
Pruritis of genitals. Cold feeling in thigh after period. Sensation of
swelling in vulva and clitoris. | ||
| Urine. Dark,
scanty or suppressed; bloody, brown, black, inky; contains clots of putrid
decomposed blood, albumin, sugar. | ||
| Heart. Anxiety
in region of heart. Impulse not felt. Pericarditis, with severe pain,
oppression and dyspnea, pulse threadlike. Sound of heart become weaker,
pulse of low tension. | ||
| Extremities.
Sharp pain down left arm. Tearing in limbs during warm weather, stinging
during cold. Pins and needles in hands and wrists, fingertips numb. Pain in
front of thigh. Right plantar reflex abolished. Limbs, lame, weak,
tingling. Pain worse in evening and warm weather. Joints stiff and
feverish; shifting rheumatism; pains worse at night. Inflammation of great
toe, gout in heel, cannot bear to have it touched or moved. Tingling
in the finger nails. Knees strike together, can hardly walk. Edematous
swelling and coldness of legs and feet. | ||
| Back. Aching in
lumbar and lumbosacral region. Dull pain across loins. Backache, better,
rest and pressure. | ||
| Skin. Blotchy
papular rash on face. Pink spots on back, chest and abdomen.
Urticaria. | ||
| Modalities.
Worse, sundown to sunrise; motion, less of sleep, smell of food in
evening, mental exertion. Better, stooping. | ||
| Relationship.
Antidote: Thuj.; Cocc.; Nux-v.; Puls. Compare: Carbo-v.; Arn.; Ars.; Verat. | ||
| Dose. Third to
thirtieth attenuation. |