Citrus nobilis: the Great Lakes trial of 'Temple Orange'

As for the choice of substances to be tested, it is often best to test the things that are right under our noses. Oranges and orange juice are among the most important foods in America and are an essential part of a healthy breakfast. ("A day without orange juice is like a day without sunshine...") Yet this widespread fruit was first tested in March 2010!

History:

The orange eaten around the world was originally an acidic fruit that grew wild in China. The Chinese were cultivating the orange as early as around 2500 BC. It was also grown in India in the Assam region and in Myanmar (Burma).
Orange trees were probably planted in North Africa as early as the first century AD. The landscape between Seville and Granada and into Portugal was famous for its orange groves. The Saracens brought oranges to Sicily at about the same time, the island off the tip of the Italian boot.

In 1493 Christopher Columbus brought orange, lemon and lime seeds and possibly even young trees from the Canary Islands to the island of Hispaniola.

Around the same time the Portuguese had sweet oranges planted by African slaves in their vast South American colony of Brazil.
In 1565 the Spanish brought oranges to their settlement at St. Augustine in Florida, and by 1579 the groves there were in bloom. The local Native Americans also took to oranges, planting them in their own woods and taking them as food on hunts. Today 9 out of 10 of the oranges grown in Florida are processed into juice. California produces most of the oranges eaten as fruit.
Brazil is the world's leading orange producer. Half of the world's orange juice comes from Brazil and Brazil accounts for 80% of the world trade in concentrated orange juice. Brazil's largest customer is the Netherlands; the United States is the third largest.

Political / cultural significance:

The cultural significance of the orange shows monarchy, colonialism and exclusivity. During the Renaissance, oranges often served as symbols of royal houses, and in Europe orange groves were frequently planted on royal estates. In Botticelli's famous painting 'Primavera', the oranges in the grove stand as a symbol of love and fertility.
William of Orange, the leader of the Dutch revolt against the Spanish, defeated King James in Ireland and established the Protestant (Orange/Orangist) hegemony in Ireland for centuries.

rootstocks. He passed them on to a friend, H.E. Gillett, who owned a nursery. Gillett named the new hybrid after his friend Temple and began selling the trees in 1919. From 1940 cultivation became widespread.

The Temple Orange is also known as the King Mandarin.

Remedy proving:

The Temple oranges used for the proving came from a small orange grove with beekeeping in Bradenton, Florida, where the winter quarters of the Barnum and Bailey circuses are also located. The proving was carried out in March 2010 at the Baylight School of Homoeopathy in Portland, Maine under Director Nancy Frederick.

Proving details:

Nine female provers aged between 30 and 60 took part; there were four supervisors.
The preparation of the triturations (in the first part of the proving) was chaotic, playful and immature; one observer commented: "It was like a circus." The provers sang children's songs, Disney songs and songs from The Sound of Music. There was much prepubescent giggling, vulgar joking, cliquishness and teasing. The provers called each other princesses and queens.
During the trituration, the provers spontaneously began to play a word game called "Tante Sally" – with no one explaining the rules. Those who did not understand the game or could not assert themselves were excluded from the game. The participants felt criticised, mocked one another and treated each other mercilessly. This game dominated the trituration, even though some people reacted with clear stress and did not take part. The most striking themes of this remedy are superiority, inclusion and exclusion; it heals the wounds caused by rejection and repudiation.
 
During the trituration one prover became very nauseous, and she wrote: "I feel as if I am pregnant." While she was so sick she painted a picture of a foetus in the uterus of a plant.

Mental / emotional themes:

- childish: playful, dizzy, giggles, sings, teases others and makes jokes
- family / marriage, desire for relationship
- inclusion / exclusion; sharing / not sharing
- being the centre of attention, attention-seeking, determination, hierarchy
- royalty / purple
- ocean, sea, beach, underwater, swimming, flowing, fluid
- pregnancy
- taking up space, confused; alone, isolated, detached, feeling of floating / clarity
- self-pity, cries, feels robbed and deprived of her dreams
- anxiety; fearful dreams, mistrustful, paranoid, self-assured
- restless / peaceful, calm, clear, blissful
- energetic / tired
- aggression / withdrawal: excited, angry, irritable
- double / synchronous
- the colour orange, the fruit orange
- frightening, anxiety-laden dreams
- dream and reality
- dreams of friends, parties, dancing and laughter.
There were also pronounced physical symptoms, especially dizziness, stomach complaints, limb aches, itching, shingles and sleep disturbances.

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Orange trees
Categories: Provings
Keyword: Superiority, Inclusion / Exclusion, healing of the wounds caused by rejection
Remedy: Citrus nobilis