The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica
Citrus Vulgaris cit-v.
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.