Op.
bei Kinder = Croc-s
[Farokh Master]
My first experience was with a child of 11 years who was suffering from
recurrent epistaxis. The characteristic symptoms that I found in this child
were that he was extroverted, affectionate, and friendly, happy go lucky type.
The mother said that he is very moody sometimes he is very kind hearted
towards his sister and everybody at home and suddenly one fine day he becomes
very violent towards his sister for no reason. He had a hobby of telling funny
jokes to his friends and making them laugh. However, most of the times his
jokes were quite silly.
I also observed that while he was sitting in front of me there was a
constant winking of his eyes.
In his physical data he had constipation ever since he was a small
infant and many times in the sleep he would talk and sometimes he may shriek
also.
The epistaxis was more characteristic during his summer vacation. The
child was tall; he was just going to enter his puberty.
He had a strong desire to have water from the refrigerator but otherwise
also he loved cold drinks.
Epistaxis: The most characteristic thing that I had observed was that
the blood is dark, clotted and very stringy.
An important thing that I had observed in epistaxis of Crocus is that it
usually comes at the time of puberty and probably associated with this like
reproach from parents due
to misbehavior or excessive fun and joy with no sense of responsibility.
I have also been able to see few children who had attacks of
epistaxisafter every bout of physical exertion.
I remember I had a very obstinate case of epistaxis when the mother said
whenever the child has a physical exertion like playing cricket for many hours
or playing football for many hours or playing games for many hours and then
this is followed by epistaxis, the remedy which really helped me was Crocus
sativus. In fact Dr. Kent has repeatedly mentioned that in case persistent
profuse epistaxis, think of Crocus sativus. The characteristic of this remedy
is that the moment the bleeding starts the blood coagulates very fast, the
blood coagulates so quickly and it turns into what is known as long strings
(Merc. Nit-ac.).
Another case of a child with an obstinate epistaxis where I could not
elicit any modality, the bleeding may come any time from any nostril; it was
not related to any weather changes
but it was stubborn, it was chronic, they tried all the remedies in
homoeopathic materia medica by consulting at least several homoeopaths. The
child was not feeling well. When I was trying to interview the child I saw that
there was a constant quivering on his upper eyelid.
And outsider will surely feel as if his upper eyelid has gone into
spasm. This is a very important clinching point, immediately I opened the
repertory, I saw this rubric in the section of eye ‘quivering upper eyelid’ and
there are very few remedies mentioned in this particular rubric like Ars. Calc.
Con. Stram. Verat. but the most important thing
that I knew was Crocus sativus with the concomitant of chronic
epistaxis, persistent epistaxis, not responding to usual line of treatment with
the strong concomitant of quivering of the upper eyelidI was successfully
treated the case.
The important thing in Crocus sativus you will see that it has got lot
of involuntary movement from head to foot.
Many Crocus patients complained to me of unusual pulsation or shocks in
the head. And these shocks are quite deep or some waving sensation in the
brain.
Others have complained to me twitching of the eyelids, quivering of the
eyelids, winking of the eyes etc.