The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

Citrus Vulgaris cit-v.

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General

Citrus Vulgaris ; Lemon. Aurantiaceæ.

Mind

Great excitement ; motions quick, brusque, and performed with uncontrollable zeal.

Sensorium

Feels drunken and giddy.

Inner head

Hemicrania ; right side.
Pressing headache, now over whole head, now on one part, and forehead.

Outer head

Promotes growth of hair.

Sight and eyes

Weakness of sight.

Hearing and ears

Noises in ears as from bells ringing.

Upper face

Aggravated periodical erysipelas.
Faceache sometimes changes into transient but frequently repeated epileptic-like convulsions of face.
Neuralgia in face, shooting, gnawing pains, most in temples, especially right side.

Teeth and gums

Constant toothache.
Teeth become carious.
Teeth wear off.

Taste, speech, tongue

Taste and Tongue
Tongue furred thickly, brown.

Palate and throat

Something seems to rise in throat and choke her.

Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions

No appetite.
Great thirst, drinking little at a time.

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

Nausea and vomiting.
Smell of oranges always makes her sick.

Scrobiculum and stomach

Aching and heaviness in region of stomach ; with belching and thirst.

Hypochondria

Left side distended.

Stools and rectum

Constipation.

Urinary organs

Pains in kidneys and bladder.

Female sexual organs

Too copious menses.
Painful menstruation (tincture of seed of lemons).

Respiration

Oppression of chest.
Sensation in upper part of breast bone as if suffocating.
Constriction in throat.
Pleurodynia.

Heart, pulse and circulation

Palpitation.

Upper limbs

Pressure upon shoulders.
Small blister over whole arms, especially on hands and between fingers.
General itching but much oftener only on upper limbs with redness and swelling of hands.
Spasmodic pains in hands.

Lower limbs

Sciatica.

Limbs in general

Painful joints.
Trembling of limbs.
Cold limbs when traveling.
Stretching and drawing in limbs ; has to stretch and rub hands.

Nerves

Trembling all over.
Lameness.
Restlessness, fidgety.
Half-sided epileptiform convulsions, especially of face and shoulders.
The whole muscular system is in a state of irritation, cannot keep in an erect position.

Sleep

Constant irresistible gaping.
Sleep very restless, full of dreams.
Sudden starting, burning heat, tossing about in bed and sleeplessness.

Fever

Oranges are said to render gastric fevers milder, even when of a typhoid form.

Locality and direction

Right : hemicrania ; neuralgia in temple.
Left : hypochondrium distended.

Sensations

As if something rose in throat.
Shooting : in face and temples.
Gnawing : faceache.
Drawing : in limbs.
Aching : in region of stomach.
Pressing : headache ; upon shoulders.
Suffocating sensation : in upper part or breast bone.
Constriction : in throat.
Spasmodic pains : in hands.
Undefined pain : in kidneys and bladder ; in joints.
Heaviness : in region of stomach.
Itching : on upper limbs.

Skin

Dusky dry skin.
Red spots appear on different parts of body.
Children eating plenty of oranges peeled by themselves, get an eruption and other symptoms very similar to scarlatina.

Stage of life, constitution

Diseases of old men, especially with coldness and chilliness.

Relations

An orange eaten before breakfast is said to destroy desire for alcoholic drinks in drunkards.