Adven Crocus sativus (Saffron)

A supportive homoeopathic remedy for emotional instability, hemorrhagic tendencies, nervous disorders, unusual body sensations, and spasmodic complaints

Crocus sativus is a valuable homoeopathic medicine prepared from the fresh young shoots of Saffron, belonging to the Iridaceæ family. It acts prominently on the nervous system, circulation, and female reproductive organs, and is especially useful in conditions involving black stringy hemorrhages, emotional fluctuations, hysteria, chorea, and heightened sensitivity. It is well suited to individuals with rapidly changing moods, nervous excitability, and peculiar sensations as if something alive were moving within the body.

Common Name

Saffron

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

Emotional & Mental Instability

• Helps sudden mood changes from laughter to sadness or anger
• Supports cheerful, hysterical, or excitable emotional states
• Useful in emotional sensitivity with remorse after anger
• Assists mental dullness, drowsiness, and nervous exhaustion

Hemorrhagic Tendencies

• Helps dark, stringy bleeding with black clots
• Supports uterine hemorrhage aggravated by movement
• Useful in frequent, dark, and viscid menstrual flow
• Assists threatened abortion with dark bleeding

Visual & Eye Disturbances

• Helps blurred vision and sensation of sparks before the eyes
• Supports ciliary neuralgia with pain extending into the head
• Useful in photophobia, eye heaviness, and visual fatigue
• Assists smoky or strained sensation in the eyes

Unusual Body Sensations

• Helps sensations as if something alive were moving in the abdomen or chest
• Supports crawling, tingling, and formication sensations
• Useful in cold feelings in the back or limbs
• Assists drawing or pulling sensations in different body parts

Digestive & Rectal Complaints

• Helps constipation associated with portal congestion
• Supports abdominal heaviness, crawling, and stitching sensations
• Useful in constipation in infants and sluggish bowel activity
• Assists abdominal discomfort with nervous irritation

Cough & Respiratory Irritation

• Helps wheezy cough with thread-like mucus expectoration
• Supports cough aggravated while lying down
• Useful in hysterical cough with throat irritation
• Assists offensive breath and respiratory discomfort

Muscle Twitching & Nervous Disorders

• Helps spasmodic twitching and involuntary jerking of muscles
• Supports choreic and hysterical motor disturbances
• Useful in numbness and weakness of limbs
• Assists fatigue and heaviness in lower extremities

Coldness & Sleep Disturbance

• Helps icy cold sensations in hands and feet
• Supports disturbed sleep with vivid emotional dreams
• Useful in drowsiness with nervous restlessness
• Assists sensitivity to temperature changes and exhaustion