HOMOEOPATHIC REMEDY CITRUS LIMON---FOR CANCER

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BOTANICAL NAME-—Citrus limon ( L ) Burm.f

COMMON NAMES
Bengali-Baranebu, Goranebu
English—Lemon
French—Citronnier, Limonier
German—Limone
Hindi—Baranimbu, Jambira, Paharikaghzi
Malayalam—Cherunaranga, Ganapatinarakam
Tamil—Mahanimbu, Vanabijapura
Telugu—Bijapuram, Gajanimma, Naradabba

HISTORY
The name Limonum is derived from the Arabic limun or Limu, which in turn probably comes from the Sanskrit Nimbuka
It is mentioned in T.F Allen’s , Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica, Vol. 111; J.H Clarke, A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica, Vol1,p.532.

OCCURRENCE   & DISTRIBUTION
It is a native of northern India. It is cultivated; grown in the orchards in Uttar Pradesh , Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, and Karnataka. Found wild in the north – west regions of India, ascending 1300 m.
It is also cultivated in all countries bordering on the Mediterranean , especially in Sicily and southern Italy, in Spain and Portugal.

DESCRIPTION
A straggling , bushy , small tree, 3-4 m high, with throny branches. Leaves ovate, petiole margined or winged. Flowers small, white, or pinkish, sweet-scented. Fruit ovoid or obovoid, externally bright yellow and nearly smooth , about 6-10 cm long and 4-7 cm wide, usually with a nipple-shaped extremity and a dry disc-like nectary at the base. It consists of about 8-10 carpels and about 8-10 loculi filled with pulp. The pulp has an agreeable and strongly acidulous taste. Flowers in April- May and fruits in May-June.

PART USED
Fresh juice- Fresh lemon yield about 30 percent of juice. It is a  turbid yellowish liquid, translucent , having characteristic pleasant odor and sour taste. Freely miscible with water and alcohol.It contains not less than 50 percent w/v of citric acid

CHEMICAL CONSTITUENTS
Limonene, citral, pinene, camphene,citric acid, phellandene, citronellal, terpinol, octyl aldehyde, linalyl acetate, geranyl acetate, citroptene.


USES
Citrus limonum is antidiarrhoeal, antidysenteric, astringent, antiscorbutic , antirheumatic anti-uricaemic, vitamin rich and refrigerant. The rind is carminative, and stomachic.

HOMOEOPATHIC USES
Homoeopathic action has been proved by the occurrence of scurvy from the excessive use of citric acid when taken for other purposes.
Citrus limonum has powerful effect on the circulation and on the blood itself. It produces faintness, a weak pulse, hemorrhages and swellings. Inflammation and painful enlargement of spleen, dyspnea.Cancer. Relieved the pain of cancer. Lymphoma.   Daily headache. Stiffness in the joints, especially in the fingers, bruised feeling particularly in the feet. Herpetic eruptions.

THERAPEUTIC USES
Cancer. Colic. Constipation. Convulsions. Diarrhea. Dropsy. Dysentery. Dyspnea. Eruptions. Faintness. Headaches. Hemorrhages. Herpes. Rheumatism.Scurvy. Splenitis. Sunstroke.

POTENCY
IX and higher.



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