Condensed Materia Medica

Allium Cepa all-c.

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Mind

Confusion.
Fears she will become distracted, from pain in the suppurations on the fingers.
Very melancholy.

Sensorium

Dulness, pressure, fulness, heaviness in the head most in occiput, worse evenings, better in the open air, and worse when returning to a warm room.

Inner Head

Dull frontal headache.
Dull headache, worse evenings.
Like an electric shock, through the head.

Outer Head

Formication in the skull bones.
Prickling sweat on the bald scalp after each meal.

Eyes

Dim and sensitive to light.
Thread-like pain: over the right eye, towards the root of nose; from the cheek towards the eye.
Smarting in the eyes, like from smoke.
Eyes-red, itch, and are sensitive to touch, worse left.
Eyes watery, capillaries congested; with coryza.
Shooting pain in right lachrymal duct.
Profuse bland lachrymation.
Smarting of inner surface of upper lids.

Ears

Noises in the ears.
Jerking pains from the throat towards the eustachian tube.
Dulness of hearing.
Earache.

Nose

Epistaxis.
Constant sneezing, with profuse acrid coryza, when coming into a warm room.
Spring coryza; tingling and itching in right nostril.
Every year in August morning coryza, with violent sneezing; very sensitive to odor of flowers and skin of peaches (lasting two or three weeks).
Fluent coryza, headache, lachrymation, cough, thirst, want of appetite, trembling of hands, feverish; worse evenings and in-doors; better in open air.
Profuse, watery, acrid nasal discharge, with bland lachrymation.
Ichor oozing out of the nose. θ Second stage of scarlatina.
Polypus of nose.

Face

Thread-like pains about the face, temples and ears.
Throbbing, drawing, pressing pains, with swelling of cheek.
Face hot.

Teeth

Toothache with coryza, getting better when the catarrh is worse, and worse when the catarrh ceases.

Mouth

Dryness of mouth, root of tongue, soft palate and throat.
Bad odor from the mouth or throat.

Throat

Sensation as of a ball in the throat.
Tough mucus in the fauces and throat.
Numb feeling in posterior wall of pharynx.

Desires and Aversions

Canine hunger, or may have loss of appetite.

Eating and Drinking

Bad effects from eating spoiled fish.

Nausea and Vomiting

Sour eructations.
Belching, with rumbling in and puffing up of abdomen.
Nausea when rising.

Stomach

Pressure in the stomach.
Pain in the region of the pylorus.
Stomach feels empty, weak.

Hypochondria

Pressure in region of the liver, with creeping chills along the back, coldness.
Contracting sensation in the spleen, with stitches while lying.

Abdomen

Colic; pain in region of navel, worse sitting, better walking.
Violent pain in the hypogastrium, to the left, with urging to urinate; burning micturition.
Annoying pains over the middle of the groin.
Pressure in left inguinal ring.

Stool, etc

Very offensive flatus.
Diarrhœa after midnight, or toward morning.
Constipation, following intermittents treated by quinine.
Rhagades at the anus.

Urine

Pains in the region of kidneys.
Region of bladder very sensitive, child screams if the hand is placed there.
Pressing and other pains in region of bladder.
Sensation of weakness or warmth in bladder and urethra.
Copious urine, with other complaints.
Urine red, with much urging and burning in the urethra.
Albuminuria.

Male Sexual Organs

Increased sexual desire.
After coitus pain in bladder and prostate gland.
Drawing in the spermatic cord.
Burning in the glans.

Female Sexual Organs

Pain in uterine region.

Pregnancy

In childbed, panaritia on several fingers, with red streaks up the arm, pains driving to despair.

Larynx

Catarrhal hoarseness.
Tickling in throat, with aching in the larynx.
Catarrhal inflammation of larynx.
Pain as if the larynx would be torn when coughing.

Breathing

Breathing oppressed from pressure in middle of chest.

Cough

Laryngeal cough, frequently repeated.
Severe laryngeal cough, which compels the patient to grasp the larynx; feels as if the cough would tear it.
Hacking cough from inhaling cold air.
Constant inclination to hack.

Lungs

Chest laden with mucus.
Pains here and there through the chest.
Stitches with burning, in middle of left side of chest, when taking a deep breath.

Heart and Pulse

Pulse more frequent and full; or, slow and hard.

Neck and Back

Creepings in the back; after sitting, pain under the right shoulder-blade.
Pain in small of back, if the bowels did not move.

Upper Limbs

Pain in right shoulder-blade when lying in bed.
All the joints feel lame.
Trembling of right hand.
Run-around, pain extends up the whole arm.
Suppuration, after prick with a needle, under the thumb nail; a red streak up to the elbow.

Lower limbs

Weakness of the hips.
Nettle-rash on the thighs.
Pain above the knees.
Lameness in the knee.
Sore and raw spots on the feet, from friction.
Pain in the great toes.

Limbs in General

Soreness in the limbs.

Position, etc

Walking: 19. Rising: 16. Sitting: 19, 31. Lying: 18, 32. Must lie down: 36.

Nerves

Weak and tired, has to lie down.
Lassitude.

Sleep

Yawning, with headache and cramp in the stomach.
Restless sleep, drowsy in the morning.
Dreams: of being near the water; of storms at sea, high waves.

Time

Morning: 7, 20, 37, 40. Evening: 2, 3, 7, 43. After midnight: 20. 2 A.M.: 40. Toward morning: 20.

Temperature and Weather

Bad effects from getting the feet wet.
Colds, after damp, cold weather and north-east winds.
Cold air: 27. Better in open air, worse in warm room: 2, 7. Spring: 7. August: 7.

Chill, Fever and Sweat

Coldness alternates with heat; during catarrh.
Heat and thirst, with rumbling in the belly.
Heat without thirst, 2 A.M., passes off by daylight, worse again after breakfast.
Sweats easily and copiously.

Attacks

Periodic attacks: 45. Spring: 7. August: 7.

Sides

Right: 5, 7, 18, 31, 32. Left: 5, 18, 19, 24, 28, 43.
Most symptoms in provings go from left to right; cures symptoms that proceed from right to left.

Sensations

Aching through the body.
Neuralgic pains like a long thread; in the face, head, neck and elsewhere; worse evenings.

Tissues

Inflammation and increased secretion of the mucous membrane.
Joints ache.
Gangræna senilis, woman, æt. 80 (externally as a salve).

Contact, Injuries, etc

Touch: 5, 21.
After hurts and lesions stiffness in back, periodic attacks.
Must grasp larynx: 27. Rubbing: 33.

Skin

Pricking as from pins.
Redness of the skin.
Nettle-rash on the thighs.
Measles.

Stages and States

Old age; gangrene.

Relationship

Antidotes to Cepa; Arnic. against tooth ache; Chamom. bellyache; Veratr. colic with despondency.
Phosphor. is complementary.
Cepa is complementary to Phosphor., Pulsat., Sarsap., Calc. and Silic. follow Cepa well in polypus.
Collateral relations that neither antidote nor follow well: All. sat., Scilla, Aloe soc.
Allium sativum is useful in chronic cough with an abundant mucous expectoration, and sensitiveness to cold air; herpetic diathesis.