Allium cepa

Allium cepa
(red onion)
* A picture of coryza, with acrid nasal discharge and laryngeal symptoms, eye secretion
bland; singers' cold, worse in warm room and towardevening; better in open air is presented
by this remedy.
* Specially adapted to phlegmatic patients; colds in damp cold weather.
* Neuralgic pains, like a fine thread, following amputations or injuries to nerves.
* Traumatic chronic neuritis.
* Burning in nose, mouth, throat, bladder and skin.
* Sensation of glowing heat on different parts of the body.
Head
- Catarrhal headache, mostly in forehead; worse inwarm room towards evening.
- Thread-like pains in face.
- Headache ceases during menses; returns when flowdisappears.
Eyes
- Red.
- Much burning and smarting lachrymation.
- Sensitive to light.
- Eyes suffused and watery; profuse, bland lachrymation, better in open air.
- Burning in eyelids.
Ears
- Earache, shooting in eustachian tube.
Nose
- Sneezing, especially when entering a warm room.
- Copious, watery and extremely acrid discharge.
- Feeling of a lump at root of nose.
- Hay-fever. [Sabad.; Sil.; Psor.]
- Fluent coryza with headache, cough, and hoarseness.
- Polypus.
Stomach
- Canine hunger.
- Pain in pyloric region.
- Thirst.
- Belching.
- Nausea.
Abdomen
- Rumbling, offensive flatus.
- Pains in left hypogastrium.
- Colic sitting, moving about.
Rectum
- Diarrhoea with very offensive flatus.
- Stitches in rectum; itching and rhagades in anus.
- Glowing heat in rectum.
Urinary
- Sensation of weakness in bladder and urethra.
- Increased secretion of urine with coryza.
- Urine red with much pressure and burning in urethra.
Respiratory
- Hoarseness. Hacking cough on inspiring cold air.Tickling in larynx. Sensation as if larynx
is split or torn. Oppressed breathing from pressurein middle of chest.
- Constricted feeling in region of epiglottis.
- Pain extending to ear.
Extremities
- Lame joints.
- Ulcers on heel.
- Painful affections of fingers about nails. neuralgia of stump.
- Bad effects from getting feet wet.
- Limbs, especially arms, feel sore and tired.
Sleep
- Yawning with headache and drowsiness.
- Gaping in deep sleep.
- Dreams.
- Wakes at 2 a.m.
Modalities
- Worse, in the evening, in warm room.
- Better, in open air, and in cold room.
Relationship
- Compare : Gels.; Euph.; Kali hyd.; Aconite; Ipecac.
- Complementary : Phosphor.; Thuja; Puls.
- Antidotes : Arn.; Cham.; Verat.
Dose
- Third potency.