Uranium Nitricum

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.

Suited for diseases of old men, esp. with coldness and chilliness——An orange

eaten before breakfast is said to destroy the craving for alcohol in drunkards.

Ill-tempered; dull, heavy pain. Nostrils sore, with purulent, acrid discharge. Mental depression.

Lids inflamed and agglutinated; styes.

Something seems to rise in throat and choke her.—Fearful taste at back of nose and

throat, lasting for days and causing choking sensation and faintness.

• ▸Excessive thirst; nausea; vomiting. Ravenous appetite; eating followed by flatulence.
• ▸Boring pain in pyloric region. Gastric and duodenal ulcers. Burning pain.
• ▸Abdomen bloated.
• ▸Gas, second only to Lycop.

• ▸Copious urination.
• ▸Diuresis.
• ▸Incontinence of urine.
• ▸Diabetes.
• ▸Emaciation and tympanites.
• ▸Burning in urethra, with very acid urine.
• ▸Unable to retain urine without pain.
• ▸Enuresis (Mullein oil).

Complete impotency, with nocturnal emissions. Organs cold, relaxed sweaty.

Itching, general or more often only in upper limbs, with redness and swelling of

hands.—Eruption and other symptoms like scarlatina.

• ▸Choking, sensation of.
• ▸Faintness.
• ▸Headache.
• ▸Metrorrhagia.
• ▸Neuralgia.
• ▸Palpitation.

Throat, rising in.

• ▸Compare: Syzygium; Phos ac; Lact ac; Arg nit; Kali bich; Ars; Phloridzin (a glucosidal principle obtained from the bark of the root of the apple and other fruit trees.
• ▸Produces diabetes and fatty degeneration of the liver; intermittent fever.
• ▸Daily doses, 15 grains.
• ▸Phlorizin causes glycosuria.
• ▸No hyperglycemia results.
• ▸It compels the secretory epithelium of the kidney to break down serum albumin into sugar.
• ▸There is no increase in blood sugar).

Second trituration.