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periods in youth. Menstrual disturbance with fulness, head- 
ache, etc. Metrorrhagia after violent exertions, or stimulating 
drinks taken at the period of the menses, or from fright.” 
According to Hirzel, Crocus is more suitable for metrorrhagia, 
with erethism of the circulation, and Secale for hemorrhages 
from atony. According to Lobethal, Crocus corresponds to 
active hemorrhage; Sabina to hemorrhage with erethism, and 
Secale to torpid hemorrhage. According to Hartmann, the 
characteristic indication for Crocus is a dark, blackish, clotty, 
viscid blood, always accompanied with lancinating pains in the 
abdomen, and towards the small of the back. According to 
others, Crocus is indicated even when the labour-like pains are 
wanting, and the discharge of blood is either fetid or not. 
Different affections accompanying hemorrhage from the uterus, 
as frequent anxiety and flying heat over the whole body, 
with irritation of the skin, syncope, chilliness, etc. Lochia too 
excessive. (In some cases of elongation of the uvula, causing 
a tickling cough.) 
AntipoTes.—Aconitum. Opium. The stupefaction and 
sopor caused by Crocus may probably be counteracted by 
Opium, or perhaps by Belladonna (Stapf). Forestus (De Venen., 
in Schol., lib. iii. fol. 122) states that Crocus is an antidote in 
cases of poisoning by Aconitum napellus. 
