Aurantium
Citrus × aurantium (bitter orange) · Plant · Rutaceae
Aurantium is suited to sensitive individuals, particularly elderly men with chilliness, who react to oranges with nervous and neuralgic symptoms. The remedy covers right-sided neuralgias, choking sensations from a globus-like rising in the throat, and skin eruptions resembling scarlatina.
Key symptoms
- Fearful taste at back of nose and throat lasting many days with choking sensation and faintness
- Sensation of something rising in throat causing choking
- Right-sided hemicrania; neuralgic shooting pains in temples especially right side
- Palpitation of the heart
- Too copious menses; metrorrhagia
- Constant toothache; teeth become carious and wear off
- Itching in upper limbs with redness and swelling of hands
Citrus vulgaris. Orange. N. O. Rutaceæ. Tincture of peel of Seville orange.
Clinical
Choking, sensation of. Faintness. Headache. Metrorrhagia. Neuralgia. Palpitation. Throat, rising in.
Characteristics
The tincture of the peel is used as a pleasant bitter tonic in the old-school practice. On sensitive individuals oranges in any form produce pathogenetic effects. One patient of my own could never eat an orange without experiencing a fearful taste at the back of the nose and throat, lasting many days and causing choking sensations and faintness. Nervous affections predominate; neuralgias of various kinds. The skin is the seat of many symptoms.
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