CROCUS SATIVUS



LEGS.

Feeling of weakness in the thighs, down to the knees, especially when sitting. Pain in the posterior surface of the thighs, after having been sitting for a time. Great weariness in the lower limbs. Lacerating along the knees, down to the malleoli, at night. The knees give way way even while standing. Painful tension in the knees when sitting down. Intermittent painful drawing in the bent knee. The lower limbs feel bruised. He finds it difficult to stand or walk, his limbs feel likewise weak, when sitting. Painful weariness in the feet, also when sitting, with a feeling of heaviness. Burning and tingling of the feet. Lameness of the lower limbs, after a walk. Pain of the soles of the feet.

Charles Julius Hempel
Charles Julius Hempel (5 September 1811 Solingen, Prussia - 25 September 1879 Grand Rapids, Michigan) was a German-born translator and homeopathic physician who worked in the United States. While attending medical lectures at the University of New York, where he graduated in 1845, he became associated with several eminent homeopathic practitioners, and soon after his graduation he began to translate some of the more important works relating to homeopathy. He was appointed professor of materia medica and therapeutics in the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia in 1857.