Crocus sativus

From the stigmas of Crocus sativus (Iridaceae), a costly aromatic rich in crocin, picrocrocin, and safranal. In crude use it is stimulant, antispasmodic, and emmenagogue; toxic doses excite, accelerate the pulse, quicken the imagination, and in women may provoke uterine bleeding—observations echoed by the homœopathic picture of hysterical hyperexcitability, changeable mood, chorea-like movements, and dark, viscid, stringy hæmorrhages, most notably uterine and nasal ([Toxicology]). Tincture is prepared from the dried stigmas; provings appear in Materia Medica Pura and later compilations. [Hahnemann], [Hughes], [Allen], [Clarke], [Boericke]

First provings by Hahnemann and his circle, further symptoms amassed by T. F. Allen, Hering, and Hughes. Recurrent confirmations include: hysterical alternation of laughing and weeping, loquacity, affectionate impulsiveness (kissing, embracing), sensation as if something alive moved in the abdomen/uterus, jerkings/chorea, and hæmorrhages of dark, viscid, thread-drawing blood—uterine, nasal, pulmonary—worse from the least motion and excitement, better quiet and coolness. [Hahnemann], [Allen], [Hering], [Hughes], [Clarke], [Boericke]

Crocus sativus marries a hæmorrhagic surface to a hysterical core. The surface speaks in black, viscid, stringy blood that gushes with the least motion—uterus first, nose next, and sometimes lungs—relieved by absolute quiet, cool air, and firm pressure (Essence ↔ Female/Nose/Chest; 10a/10b). The core is capricious mirth and tenderness flipping at a breath into tears: loquacious, affectionate, impulsive to kiss and embrace, delighted and overborne by music, then suddenly peevish or despondent, a nervous ebb-and-flow that surges with vascular tides (Essence ↔ Mind/Heart). Between these poles moves the strangest of sensations—as if something alive were stirring within the abdomen or womb—a visceral metaphor for the surging, vermicular motion of the blood itself; when that inner “motion” is provoked by exertion, gushes ensue, and with them palpitations, faintness, and a mental flutter (Essence ↔ Abdomen/Female/Generalities).

Miasmatically, the picture blends sycosis (over-production and clotting; stringiness; recurrent bleeds) with syphilitic hæmorrhagic tendencies (dark, tarry ooze; ecchymoses), set upon a psoric nervous background of hyper-reactivity to music, warmth, and company. Modal code is unequivocal: worse from least motion, excitement, music, warm rooms, rising, stooping; better by quiet, cool air, pressure/binder, darkness/seclusion, and sipping cold water. The time of day colours expression: morning epistaxis on rising, evening nervous restlessness in warm salons; the place too: crowds and concerts are unsafe arenas (Essence ↔ Modalities).

Differentially, if the bleeding is bright and pains draw to sacrum, Sabina; if thin, passive, offensive with coldness, Secale; if profuse with sacral collapse, Trillium; if dark clots yet no hysterical changeability, Ustilago. For hysteria without hæmorrhage, Ignatia and Coffea share facets, but neither offers black, ropy blood nor living-thing motion. The clinician watches cure by a simple calculus: flow steadies without threads or gushes on movement, palpitation quiets, music ceases to excite, the sensation of inner life fades to neutrality, and the mood holds in gentle evenness. [Hahnemann], [Hering], [Kent], [Farrington], [Clarke], [Boericke], [Boger], [Allen]

• Uterus & Female Generative Organs. Menorrhagia/metrorrhagia, especially after miscarriage/abortion or during threatened abortion: blood black, viscid, in long strings, flow intermittent and aggravated by the least motion; with hysterical alternations and sensation of something alive moving in the womb. See Female/Generalities. [Hering], [Clarke], [Boericke], [Allen]
• Blood & Capillaries. A hæmorrhagic diathesis with dark, clotted, stringy blood; oozing from mucous membranes; epistaxis on rising, black, ropy; coagula drawn out in threads. See Nose/Chest. [Allen], [Clarke], [Boger]
• Mind & Sensorium. Hysterical hyper-reaction: laughing ↔ weeping, loquacity, impulses to embrace, capricious, sensitive to music; states track with uterine bleeding. See Mind. [Hahnemann], [Kent], [Clarke]
• Motor System (Chorea/Spasm). Jerkings, twitchings, dance-like movements; chorea worse emotion, music, menstruation. See Extremities/Generalities. [Hering], [Farrington]
• Nose/Nasopharynx. Dark stringy epistaxis, morning or with exertion; catarrh with black clots. See Nose. [Allen], [Clarke]
• Chest & Lungs. Cough with black, viscid blood-streaks; hæmoptysis in strings; palpitation with nervous erethism. See Chest/Respiration/Heart. [Clarke], [Allen]
• Abdomen. Creeping/motion sensation as of a living thing in abdomen—worms, foetus, or mouse-like; linked to uterine axis. See Abdomen/Female. [Hering], [Clarke]
• Eyes. Congestive states with black specks, lachrymation in hysterical attacks; dark clots from canthi in some provers. See Eyes. [Allen], [Hughes]
• Skin & Menses Interface. Ecchymoses, purpura-like spots, and dusky flushes with menstrual disorders; clotting tendency strong. See Skin/Fever. [Clarke], [Boger]
• Heart & Circulation. Palpitations with exaltation, flushes, and irregular pulse; circulation labile with excitement. See Heart/Generalities. [Hughes], [Clarke]

The mental portrait is capricious and effusive: laughing alternates with weeping in rapid waves; the patient is loquacious, affectionate to excess, embracing and kissing those near, then suddenly peevish or tearful, a seesaw that tracks uterine and circulatory flux (Mind ↔ 9 Affinity Uterus; 10b excitement/music <). There is a notable sensitivity to music—tunes thrill the patient into laughter, tears, palpitations, or dance-like movements, heightening any hæmorrhage already present (Mind ↔ Extremities/Heart/10b). She may describe exaltation, buoyancy, and rapid ideas with inability to fix attention; religious or lascivious colourings pass like clouds, without deep malice (compare Hyos., more obscene and suspicious) [Kent], [Clarke]. Conscientious remorse may follow an outburst, as if she had been another person—a hysterical alienation typical of Crocus rather than Ignatia’s silent grief. In children, fitful laughter, kissing, and sudden tears accompany epistaxis of black strings (Mind ↔ Nose). Anxiety centres on the gushing when she moves, hence the spontaneously adopted quietude, whispering, and hand pressed to the lower abdomen (Mind ↔ 10a quiet/pressure >; Female). Better in cool air, worse warm rooms with company, she begs that music be stopped; improvement is registered in a steadier mood, softer pulse, and bleeding that ceases to gush on movement. [Hahnemann], [Kent], [Hering], [Clarke], [Boericke]

Sleep is restless when warm, better after cooling the room; patients talk, laugh, or sigh in sleep; jerkings startle on the verge of slumber (Sleep ↔ Extremities/10b warm <; 10a cool >). Dreams of dancing, embracing, or of children moving within the abdomen—somatic echo of the living-thing sensation. Sleep refreshes the capricious mood if bleeding is controlled. [Clarke], [Allen], [Hering]

Dreams of music, festivity, embracing, quickly shifting to weeping; of moving foetus/animal in belly; of black blood. On waking, palpitation if the room is warm (Dreams ↔ Mind/Female/10b). [Clarke] (clinical)

A hæmorrhagic–hysterical remedy: dark, viscid, stringy bleeds (uterus, nose, lungs) worse the least motion, with nervous exaltation, music-sensitivity, laughing↔weeping, jerkings, and the sensation of a living thing within (Generalities ↔ 9 Affinity; 10b). Better absolute quiet, cool air, firm pressure, seclusion/darkness; worse warm rooms, excitement, rising, stooping, music, sexual stimuli. Recovery is legible when the flow ceases to gush on movement, the blood lightens from tarry threads, palpitation stills, and the capricious mirth/tears flatten into calm. [Hahnemann], [Hering], [Clarke], [Allen], [Boericke], [Kent], [Boger]

Flushes of heat with mirth or weeping; warm room aggravates; chill follows loss of blood; sweat scant unless exhausted. Pulse irregular with excitement; cool air rebalances (Fever ↔ 10a/10b). [Allen], [Clarke]

Chill after gush or emotion; heat with glowing cheeks and lively spirits that soon flag; sweat on exertion renews bleeding. Course is labile like the mental tide (Chill/Heat ↔ Mind/Generalities). [Clarke], [Hughes]

Fullness, throbbing temples, and darkness before the eyes attend loss of blood; vertigo on rising or turning is common (Head ↔ Generalities/10b motion <) [Allen], [Clarke]. The scalp may feel tight, hot, with glowing cheeks in warm rooms; cool air relieves. Headache alternates with uterine cramps; music increases throbbing and palpitation (Head ↔ Heart/Mind/10b). The nosebleed is dark, stringy, often morning on rising or with stooping (Head ↔ Nose/10b). Compare Belladonna (congestive, red, throbbing, hot skin, not hæmorrhagic-stringy) and Pulsatilla (tearful, gentle, changeable, but blood non-viscid and motion rarely gushes). [Farrington], [Clarke]

Black motes, momentary obscurations, lachrymation during hysterical fits; subconjunctival hæmorrhagic points reported in bleeding diathesis (Eyes ↔ Blood). Eyes may sparkle with exaltation, then swim with tears; music intensifies both (Eyes ↔ Mind/10b). Photophobia slight; relief in cool dim rooms. [Allen], [Clarke]

Hyperacusis to music and sudden sounds provoking palpitation or twitchings; ringing during anæmia from bleeding; ear-lobes flushed in warm rooms. [Hughes], [Allen], [Clarke]

A hallmark: epistaxis of dark, viscid, stringy blood, drawn out in long black threads, especially morning on rising, or after stooping/exertion (Nose ↔ 9 Affinity Blood; 10b motion <) [Allen], [Clarke], [Boger]. Catarrh carries black clots; smell acute during excitement; cool air restrains the oozing (Nose ↔ 10a). Children with capricious mirth often herald a nosebleed; once bleeding steadies, behaviour calms (Nose ↔ Mind). [Hering], [Clarke]

Sudden flushes, glowing cheeks in warm rooms; pale after gushes; lips may be darkened by oozed blood. Smiling–weeping play about the mouth mirrors the mental alternation. Cold sponging is grateful (Face ↔ 10a). [Clarke], [Allen]

Taste of blood; saliva sometimes streaked; tongue moist, redder at tip during excitement; thirst only when much blood lost. Talking increases palpitation; cool sips soothe. [Allen], [Clarke]

Grinding in hysterical children; teeth feel long during congestive throbs; bleeding gums with dark ooze in diathesis. [Allen], [Hering]

Hawking of dark clots from naso-pharynx; globus sensation in hysterical storms; music increases constrictive feelings. Cool drinks ease the throat and temper the pulse. [Clarke], [Allen]

Oppression, fluttering, and dry teasing cough; with cough may come dark, stringy blood-streaks—hæmoptysis in threads (Chest ↔ 9 Affinity Blood; 10b motion/excitement <) [Allen], [Clarke]. Warm rooms aggravate palpitation and breathlessness; cool air relieves (Chest ↔ 10a). Sighing frequent in hysterical phases. [Boericke], [Hughes]

Palpitation, irregular quick pulse, and precordial thrills during excitement, music, conversation, sexual emotion—consonant with the nervous–uterine axis (Heart ↔ Mind/Female/10b) [Hughes], [Clarke]. Syncope threatens after gushes; cold sips, recumbency, quiet revive (Heart ↔ 10a). Unlike Aconite (fear of death) or Cactus (iron band), Crocus displays exaltation and capricious mirth. [Farrington], [Clarke]

Short breath on exertion or in warm rooms; deep inspirations provoke cough and sometimes black threads; cool air, quiet better (Respiration ↔ 10a/10b). [Clarke], [Allen]

Nausea with palpitation and gushing bleeds; faint sinking at epigastrium after clots pass; desire for cold water in sips (Stomach ↔ Heart/Generalities). Warm food/room may aggravate nausea; quiet settles it. [Allen], [Clarke], [Boericke]

Keynote: sensation as if something living moved—crawling, jumping, fluttering—in abdomen or uterus, often around navel or hypogastrium (Abdomen ↔ 9 Affinity; Female) [Hering], [Clarke]. Crampy pains alternate with head and back symptoms; motion starts gushes; pressure of the hand is craved (Abdomen ↔ 10a pressure >; 10b motion <). Flatus shifts with the creeping sensation; improvement comes with coolness and repose. Compare Thuja (movement as of a child; warty diathesis; less hæmorrhagic stringiness) and Sabina (uterine bleeding bright and active, pains shoot to sacrum). [Farrington], [Clarke]

Dark oozing in purpura or after excessive menses; bearing-down as if everything would escape with uterine storms; constipation from fear to strain lest gush be provoked (Rectum ↔ Female/10b). [Hering], [Clarke]

Frequent urging during uterine cramps; dark sediment in anæmic states; urination may temporarily quiet palpitations by easing abdominal tension. [Allen], [Clarke]

Desire for cold drinks in sips when faint; alcohol and spices excite pulse and bleeding (Food ↔ 10b). Chocolate/coffee may quicken palpitation in sensitive subjects; cool water and bland diet preferred during attacks. [Hughes], [Clarke]

Lascivious thoughts, increased desire, irritable erections with mental excitability; emissions leave palpitation and empty faintness. Nasal bleeding may attend sexual excitement (neuro-vascular tie). [Hahnemann], [Allen], [Clarke]

Core sphere. Threatened miscarriage, especially early months or after shocks/excitement; menorrhagia/metrorrhagia with black, viscid, stringy blood, intermittent gushing—worse the least motion, worse warm rooms, better absolute quiet, cool air, pressure or binder (Female ↔ 10a/10b; 9 Affinity) [Hering], [Clarke], [Boericke]. Sensation as of a living thing moving in the uterus is decisive. Lochia becomes dark, ropy, with mental alternation; music or visitors rekindle flow (Female ↔ Mind/10b). Pains shoot to back and thighs with the gushing; palpitation and faintness accompany larger losses. Differentiate Sabina (bright, profuse, drawing to sacrum; hot patient), Secale (thin, dark, passive flow with coldness, desire to be uncovered), Trillium (profuse with sacral pains; pale fainting), and Ustilago (dark clots with stringy tendency but less hysterical alternation). [Farrington], [Clarke], [Boericke]

Bearing-down to sacrum with uterine gushes; dorsal weakness after loss; rest and binder relieve (Back ↔ Female/10a). [Clarke], [Boericke]

Jerkings, startings, chorea-like movements—hands, feet, facial mimicry—worse music/excitement, better quiet (Extremities ↔ 10b/10a) [Hering], [Farrington]. Cold hands/feet after bleeds; tremulous weakness. [Allen], [Clarke]

Dusky flushes, ecchymoses, purpura-like spots in hæmorrhagic diathesis; warm room increases glow; cool sponging grateful (Skin ↔ 10a/10b). Clotty oozings from small wounds. [Clarke], [Boger]

Uterine hæmorrhage / Menorrhagia–Metrorrhagia

• Sabina — Bright, active bleeding with pains to sacrum; hot patient; less hysterical alternation. Crocus: black, stringy, gushing on motion, living-thing sensation. [Farrington], [Clarke]
• Secale — Thin, dark, offensive flow with coldness, wants to be uncovered; passive hæmorrhage. Crocus has viscid strings, warm-room <, nervous exaltation. [Clarke], [Boger]
• Trillium — Profuse gushing with sacral/hip pains; pale, faint; blood not roped nor black-threaded. [Farrington], [Boericke]
• Ustilago — Dark clots with tendency to string, but mind less capricious; more uterine tissue action. Crocus sharper on mood/music axis. [Clarke]
• Ipecacuanha — Bright flow with persistent nausea, clean tongue. Crocus: black strings, hysterical shifts; nausea secondary. [Farrington]

Epistaxis / Hæmoptysis

• Hamamelis — Venous, passive, bruised soreness; blood dark but not rope-like. Crocus: stringy, threads from nostrils. [Clarke]
• Phosphorus — Bright hæmorrhages, anxious, fearful; bleeding easily; no stringy threads. [Boger], [Clarke]
• Carbo veg. — Dark oozing in collapse; air-hunger, flatulence; lacking the music–mood signature. [Farrington]

Hysterical states / Chorea

• Ignatia — Silent grief, contradictions, sighing, spasms; bleeding not characteristic. Crocus: effusive, kisses, laughs, then weeps; black-string bleeds. [Kent], [Clarke]
• Hyoscyamus — Lewd, suspicious, tremulous laughter; twitchings; hæmorrhage not key. Crocus lacks jealousy/obscenity. [Farrington]
• Tarentula — Music excites to restless dancing, cunning; less hæmorrhagic. Crocus: gentler mirth, stringy bleeding. [Clarke]

“Something alive moving” (abdomen/uterus)

• Thuja — Motion as of a child, warty diathesis; discharges not stringy black. Crocus: viscid hæmorrhage, hysterical alternation. [Farrington], [Clarke]
• Cina — Crawling/vermicular sensations in wormy children; nose-picking; not hæmorrhagic-stringy. [Boger]

Palpitation with exaltation

• Coffea — Joyous sleeplessness, exaltation from trifles; hæmorrhage absent. Crocus ties exaltation to bleeding/music. [Kent]
• Aconite — Acute fear of death, anxiety; bright red face; not the loquacious caress–weeping alternation. [Clarke]

• Complementary: Hamamelis — venous tendency and bruised soreness after Crocus controls the stringy gushes. [Clarke], [Boericke]
• Complementary: Trillium — when sacral pains and faintness persist though strings have ceased. [Farrington]
• Complementary: Ignatia — to steady nervous aftermath if grief underlies hysterics (without hæmorrhage). [Kent]
• Follows well: Ipecac. in active bright uterine bleeds that have turned dark and ropy with mood-change. [Farrington], [Clarke]
• Follows well: Sabina when flow grows dark-viscid, gushes on motion, and living-thing sensation appears. [Clarke]
• Precedes well: Secale if uterine tone falls to thin passive oozing with coldness. [Boger], [Clarke]
• Precedes well: Ustilago in chronic endo-metritis with clotting but less hysteria. [Clarke]
• Antidotes (practical): Camphora for sudden collapse from over-bleeding; Nux for drug over-stimulation. [Hughes], [Dewey]

Related: Tarentula, Coffea, Hyos., Ign., Hamamelis, Trillium, Sabina, Secale, Ustilago, Phosphorus—select by blood quality, mental tone, music reactivity. [Farrington], [Clarke], [Kent]

• Threatened miscarriage; post-abortal or inter-menstrual flooding with black, viscid, stringy clots; least motion starts gushing; hysterical alternation. Croc. 30C–200C, single dose or q2–6h in acute phases; strict bed rest, cool room, pelvic binder/firm hand pressure; space doses as gushing ceases. [Hering], [Clarke], [Boericke], [Farrington]
• Epistaxis of dark, ropy blood in children with capricious laughter–weeping. Croc. 6C–30C p.r.n.; keep child quiet, head forward, cool compress; avoid stooping. [Allen], [Clarke]
• Chorea/jerkings excited by music, menses, or emotion (especially in warm rooms). Croc. 30C daily to 200C weekly, according to reactivity; remove musical and social stimuli while stabilising the circulation. [Farrington], [Hering], [Clarke]

Case pearls (one-liners):
• Third-month threatenings; every attempt to rise → gush of black strings, laughing then weeping—Croc. 200C; binder; cool room → next day could turn without gush; “living thing” sensation gone by week’s end. [Clarke], [Hering]
• Child with morning black-thread epistaxis, capricious mirth → Croc. 30C p.r.n.; nosebleeds ceased within three mornings; temper evened. [Allen], [Clarke]
• Young woman with music-provoked palpitations and dance-like twitchings at concerts; scant menses dark–stringy → Croc. 30C nightly × 5 days; tolerated church music without palpitation; next menses even, dark strings absent. [Farrington], [Clarke]

Mind

• Mirth alternates with weeping; changeable mood. Signature hysterical swing. [Hahnemann], [Kent]
• Loquacity with affectionate impulses (kissing, embracing). Crocus hallmark. [Clarke]
• Music aggravates—laughs, cries, dances; palpitations. Trigger rubric. [Kent], [Farrington]
• Capricious, peevish after excitement. Post-stimulation dip. [Clarke]
• Impulses with no malice; afterwards remorse. Hysterical colouring. [Kent]
• Wants seclusion and darkness during storms. Handling rubric. [Clarke]

Nose

• Epistaxis—black, viscid, stringy; drawn in long threads. Pathognomonic. [Allen], [Clarke]
• Morning epistaxis on rising; worse stooping. Time–posture stamp. [Allen]
• Nasal catarrh with black clots. Quality matches blood theme. [Clarke]
• Bleeding renewed by slightest exertion. Motion relationship. [Boger]
• Cool air checks oozing. Simple measure. [Clarke]
• Children: nosebleed with laughter. Mind–nose link. [Clarke]

Female

• Menorrhagia/metrorrhagia—black, ropy, stringy; gushing on least motion. Core selector. [Hering], [Clarke]
• Threatened abortion—flow intermittent; pressure and quiet ameliorate. First-aid and modality. [Hering]
• Sensation as if something living moved in uterus. Keynote. [Hering], [Clarke]
• Lochia dark, viscid; excitement renews flow. Puerperal caution. [Clarke]
• Warm rooms aggravate bleeding; cool room ameliorates. Environment rubric. [Boericke]
• Palpitation with uterine storms. Axis confirmation. [Clarke]

Chest / Heart / Respiration

• Hæmoptysis—black, viscid, thread-drawing. Blood quality rubric. [Allen], [Clarke]
• Palpitation from emotion or music. Trigger rubric. [Hughes], [Kent]
• Warm rooms aggravate oppression; cool air ameliorates. Handling. [Clarke]
• Sighing, breath short with excitement. Autonomic tie. [Allen]
• Cough excites dark blood-streaks. Caution sign. [Clarke]
• Pulse irregular during hysterical attacks. Objective accompaniment. [Hughes]

Abdomen / Rectum

• Sensation as if something alive moved in abdomen. Trademark keynote. [Hering]
• Bearing down to sacrum with uterine gushes. Regional echo. [Clarke]
• Pressure on hypogastrium ameliorates pains/bleeding. Mechanical aid. [Hering]
• Fear to strain at stool lest bleeding come on. Behavioural rubric. [Clarke]
• Flatulence with creeping sensations. Somatic echo. [Allen]
• Dark oozing from rectum in diathesis. Systemic bleed sign. [Clarke]

Extremities / Nervous

• Chorea; twitchings excited by music/emotion. Motor signature. [Farrington], [Hering]
• Startings on falling asleep. Threshold instability. [Allen]
• Cold hands/feet after hæmorrhage. Circulatory barometer. [Clarke]
• Weakness with trembling after gushes. Post-bleed state. [Allen]
• Dance-like movements; must be kept quiet. Nursing note. [Clarke]
• Warm room increases restlessness. Modality. [Boericke]

Generalities

• Hæmorrhagic diathesis—dark, viscid, stringy blood. Central general rubric. [Boger], [Clarke]
• Least motion aggravates (starts gushing). Master modality. [Hering]
• Cool air, quiet, pressure ameliorate. Therapeutic trio. [Clarke]
• Excitement, music, company aggravate. Environmental key. [Kent]
• Warm rooms aggravate; seclusion desired. Practical rule. [Boericke], [Clarke]
• Sensation as of inner movement (abdomen/uterus). Cross-sectional keynote. [Hering]

Samuel Hahnemann — Materia Medica Pura (1821–1834): primary proving—hysterical changeability, music reactivity, uterine symptoms.
T. F. Allen — Encyclopædia of Pure Materia Medica (1874–79): collation—black, viscid, stringy hæmorrhages (uterus, nose, lungs), chorea, modalities.
Constantine Hering — The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica (1879): clinical confirmations—threatened miscarriage with gushing on motion; “something alive” sensation; epistaxis threads.
Richard Hughes — A Cyclopædia of Drug Pathogenesy (1891–95): toxicology/pharmacology—saffron stimulation, circulatory effects, uterine action.
John Henry Clarke — A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica (1900): synthetic picture—music-sensitivity, affectionate impulses, hæmorrhagic diathesis; regimen and first-aid notes.
William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homœopathic Materia Medica (1906): keynotes—black stringy blood, hysterical alternation, threatened abortion, warm room <, quiet/cool >.
C. M. Boger — Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica (1915): generals—hæmorrhagic diathesis, least motion <; differentials (Sabina, Secale, Trillium).
E. A. Farrington — Clinical Materia Medica (1887): comparisons—Sabina, Secale, Ustilago, Trillium; chorea from music; obstetric indications.
James Tyler Kent — Lectures on Materia Medica (1905): mental analysis—loquacity, kissing, laughing↔weeping; music aggravation; hysterical complexion.
H. C. Allen — Keynotes and Characteristics (1898): succinct keynotes—stringy black hæmorrhage, least motion gushing, living-thing sensation.
Adolph von Lippe — Text-Book of Materia Medica (1866): clinical hints—epistaxis peculiarities, obstetric cautions.
E. B. Nash — Leaders in Homœopathic Therapeutics (1899): leader notes—bleeding qualities and mental polarity (contextual).
Carroll Dunham — Lectures on Materia Medica (1879): hysterical states vs hæmorrhagic remedies; management pearls (context).
Margaret Lucy Tyler — Homoeopathic Drug Pictures (1942): bedside picture—concert-room aggravation; nursing rules (cool, quiet, pressure).