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Materia Medica Viva Volume 10 – page 2072

or ropy and the bleeding becomes worse with every motion.
Stapf says that Crocus is useful in ‘some of the most dangerous haemorrhages from the uterus, and maybe from some other parts’. He also remarks: ‘Several experiences show that the bleedings suitable to the action of Crocus are characterised by a dark and black colour and by a stringy consistency of the blood secreted, as Crocus is apt to cause this kind of bleeding in healthy persons’.
The proving contains this symptom: ‘Epistaxis of very tenacious, thick, black blood, with cold sweat on the forehead in large drops’. Often the blood has already coagulated when it comes out, and in this case it is drawn out as long black strings that hang down from the orifice affected. (In Crocus, it is the blood that is stringy; in Kali bichromicum, it is the mucus secreted that is drawn in strings.)
‘If the blood is very black and clotted, give Crocus’.
‘Something Alive’ in the Abdomen
The next particular symptom for Crocus is a sensation that something is alive and moving within the abdomen or stomach, and this may also appear in other parts as well. Clarke reports: ‘On one occasion, in hospital, I happened to see a young girl who was really desperately ill with heart failure and valvular disease, in a fit of hysterical laughter’. Because there was also a ‘jumping’ sensation in her body, Crocus 30C was given, and she made a rapid recovery from her cardiac condition.
‘At times, sensation as of something living and jumping about in the pit of the stomach, abdomen, arms, and other parts of the body’.
‘A painless shock in the epigastrium, as of something living that jumped up’. ‘Sensation internally, in both sides of the abdomen, as if something living were jumping about, with nausea and shivering’.