Aurantium
Hering, The Guiding Symptoms of our Materia Medica, 1879, Vol. II, p. 259
Citrus vulgaris. Aurantiaeece.
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 the whole head, now on one part, and the forehead.
Outer Head
Promotes the growth of hair.
Nerves
Weakness of sight.
Nerves
Noises in the ears as from bells ringing.
^ Face. Aggravated periodical erysipelas.
Faceache sometimes changes into transient but frequently repeated epileptic like convulsions of the face.
Neuralgia in the face, shooting, gnawing pains, most in the temples, especially r. side.
Teeth
││ Constant toothache.
Teeth become carious.
Teeth wear off.
Tongue
Tongue furred thickly, brown.
Throat
Something seems to rise in the throat and choke her.
Appetite. Thirst
No appetite.
Great thirst, drinking little at a time.
Hiccough, Belching, Nausea and Vomiting
Nausea and vomiting.
Smell of oranges always makes her sick.
Stomach
Aching and heaviness in region of stomach ; with belching and thirst.
Hypochondria
Left side distended.
Stool
Constipation.
Urine
│ ' Pains in kidneys and bladder.
Female Sexual Organs
▌ Too copious menses.
▌▌ Painful menstruation (tincture of seed of lemons).
Relations
Oppression of the chest.
Sensation in the upper part of breast bone as if suffocating.
Constriction in the throat.
▌ Pleurodynia.
Heart
││ Palpitation.
Upper Limbs
Pressure upon the shoulders.
Small blisters over the whole arms, especially on the hands and between the fingers.
General itching but much oftener only on the upper limbs, with redness and swelling of the hands.
Spasmodic pains in the hands.
Lower Limbs p. 260
▌ Sciatica.
Limbs in General p. 260
▌ Painful joints.
▌ Trembling of limbs.
▌ Cold limbs when travelling.
Stretching and drawing in limbs ; has to stretch and rub the hands.
Nerves p. 260
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 p. 260
Constant irresistible gaping.
Sleep very restless, full of dreams.
Sudden starting, burning heat, tossing about in bed and sleeplessness.
Fever p. 260
Oranges are said to render gastric fevers milder, even when of a typhoid form.
Locality and Direction p. 260
Right : hemicrania ; neuralgia in temple.
Left: hypochondrium distended.
Sensations p. 260
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 of 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 p. 260
Dusky dry skin.
Red spots appear on different parts of the body.
Children eating plenty of oranges peeled by themselves, get an eruption and other symptoms very similar to scarlatina.
Taste and Tongue p. 260
▌ Diseases of old men, especially with coldness and chilliness.
Relations p. 260
An orange eaten before breakfast is said to destroy the desire for alcoholic drinks in drunkards. ^y