Allium Cepa all-c.

MUCOUS MEMBRANES: NOSE. EYES. Larynx. Bowels. Nerves. Left to right.

WARM ROOM. Wet feet. Singing. Damp. N.E. Winds. Spring.

Cool, open air. Bathing. Motion.

Acute colds, catarrhs or neuralgias. Shooting pains; as fine as a thread.

Forehead aches; into eyes and face; > free coryza or menses. Watery eyes, < coughing; wants to rub them (Scil.). FREQUENT, VIOLENT SNEEZING, CORYZA; ACRID, FLUENT; with burning, smarting. Dripping nose or from uvula. Sensitive to odors. Raw throat or larynx. Flatulence; noisy; foul; painful. Copious urine. Incessant, hacking, tickling cough; holds it back; as if to tear or split larynx; must grasp it. Painful talking. Hoarseness. Senile bronchitis. Neuralgia of stump. Galled feet.

Complementary: Pho. Related: Euphr. Gel. Kali-io.

Acute catarrhal inflammation of mucous membranes, with increased secretion. Catarrhal dull headache, with coryza; < in the evening, > in open air; < on returning to a warm room (compare, Euph., Puls.). Headache ceases during menses; returns when flow disappears (Lach., Zinc.). Eyes: burning, biting, smarting as from smoke, must rub them; watery and suffused; capillaries injected and excessive lachrymation. Coryza: profuse, watery and acrid nasal discharge, with profuse, bland lachrymation (profuse, full of acrid tears, bland and fluent coryza, Euph.). Acrid, watery discharge dropping from tip of nose (Ars., Ars. iod.). Spring coryza: after damp northeasterly winds; discharge burns and corrodes nose and upper lip. Hay fever; in August every year; violent sneezing on rising from bed; from handling peaches. Nasal polypus (Mar. v., Sang., Sang. nit., Psor.). Catarrhal laryngitis; cough compels patient to grasp the larynx; seems as if cough would tear it. Colic: from cold by getting feet wet; over eating; from cucumbers; salads; haemorrhoidal; of children; <sitting, > moving about. Neuralgic pains like a long thread; in face, head, neck, chest. Traumatic chronic neuritis; neuralgia of stump after amputation; burning and stinging pains. Panaritia: with red streaks up the arm; pains drive to despair; in child-bed. Sore and raw spots on feet, especially heel, from friction. Efficacious when feet are rubbed sore - Dioscorides. Phlebitis, puerperal; after forceps delivery.

Complementary: Phos., Puls., Thuja. Compatible: before Cal. and Sil. in polypus. Similar: to, Euph., but coryza and lachrymation are opposite. Bad effects from getting wet (Rhus).

Predominantly in the evening and in warm room (Puls. - in open air, Euph.).

In cold room and open air (Puls.).

Catarrhal conditions most decidedly lead the way to the useful employment of this remedy. All catarrhal symptoms and pains, as a rule, are worse in the evening. Lachrymation and running from the nose, worse in the room. Coughs are worse in cold air.

Very melancholy, often very anxious, with catarrh, dulness of intellect. Fear that the pains will become unbearable.

Confusion and pain of the head with coryza. Headache better in open air, gets worse on returning to a warm room. Pain in the head with catarrh. Pain in the temples aggravated by winking. Pain in occiput and down the neck.

Very much lachrymation and coryza, often with biting and smarting, worse on left side and in left eye. Swelling of the lids and around the eye with coryza.

Copious watery discharge from the nose with lachrymation. Ichorous discharge from the nose in scarlet fever. Frequent and violent sneezing, particularly on entering a warm room. Acrid and burning discharge from the nose, inflaming the upper lip. With these catarrhal affections there is usually a sense of oppression in middle and upper part of the chest. Colds after damp north-easterly winds. A sort of hay-fever every August, morning coryza, violent sneezing, sensitive to the odor of flowers and skin of peaches. Nasal polypi.

Paralysis of left half of face, also in limbs of the same side, copious flow of urine.

Hawking of lumpy mucus from posterior nares, and from the fauces and throat; this is sometimes tough and difficult to detach. Pain in the throat as if one had swallowed too large a substance, the pain extends into the right ear. Bad odor from the mouth and throat. Sensation of a lump in throat.

Thirst with heat, and coryza. Appetite, increased or diminished. Strong craving for raw onions. Cannot take any other nourishment. After each meal prickling perspiration on the vertex. Nausea, coming from stomach up the throat into the fauces. Belching with rumbling in and puffing of the abdomen. Weak, empty feeling in stomach. Sour eructation.

Pains in hepatic region, spreading into the abdomen. Violent pains in left hypogastrium, with urging to urinate, urine scalding. Strangulated hernia has been known to follow the eating abundantly of cooked onions. Various colicky pains. Abdomen distended, rumbling, urging and finally diarrhœa.

Flatus very offensive, diarrhœa towards morning. Difficult stool, hæmorrhoids; tearing, jerking pains in anus: fissures.

Pressure and very sensitive over the bladder, frequent urinating, with burning, urine very red. Strangury after wet feet, abdomen cold. Dribbling or spouting of urine in old people.

Violent catarrhal laryngitis, hoarse cough seems to split and tear the larynx; causes watering of the eyes. Oppressed feeling in middle of chest, with sensation of weakness. Constant inclination to hack, in order to relieve the tickling in larynx. Acute bronchitis going from left to right. Cough with fulness of the head, heat, copious fluent coryza, and profuse lachrymation; spasmodic, croupy with the characteristic catarrhal symptoms. Stitching and burning pains here and there about the chest. Takes a severe cold, frequent sneezing, lachrymation, pain in head, acrid discharge from nose, hacking cough on inspiring cold air. Inflates the lungs, raises up, gives a hearty sneeze.

Intense pain in nape of neck. Chilly crawls run down the back, most at night, with frequent urinations, followed by heat and thirst.

Upper: Much pain under right shoulder-blade. Painful affections of fingers about the nail, red streaks running up the arm. In all the limbs, especially both arms, a very sore, tired feeling. Lower: Sore, raw spots on feet from friction. Pain on most external soft part of right big toe and left middle finger.

Wakes at 2 o'clock, and sleeps no more till morning; restless sleep with frightful dreams.

Pricking in the skin like needles, redness and itching nettle-rash, measles, scarlatina, when the complaints are characterized by the characteristic catarrhal symptoms. Panaritia of lying--in females, red streaks running up the arm, very painful.

Neuralgia from old injuries, pains. Gangrene senile. Phlegmatia alba dolens. After hurts and lesions, violent and wearing. Weak and tired; has to lie down. Neuralgic pains like a long thread. Bad effects from getting wet, Trismus after injuries. Worse in the evening.

Copious watery discharge from the nose, and watering of the eyes. Constant sneezing, with profuse acrid coryza; worse when coming into a warm room; better in the open air.

Red Onion

A picture of coryza, with acrid nasal discharge and laryngeal symptoms, eye secretion bland; singers' cold, worse in warm room and toward evening; 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.

Catarrhal headache, mostly in forehead; worse in warm room towards evening. Thread-like pains in face. Headache ceases during menses; returns when flow disappears.

Red. Much burning and smarting lachrymation. Sensitive to light. Eyes suffused and watery; profuse, bland lachrymation, better in open air. Burning in eyelids.

Earache, shooting in eustachian tube.

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.

Canine hunger. Pain in pyloric region. Thirst. Belching. Nausea.

Rumbling, offensive flatus. Pains in left hypogastrium. Colic sitting, moving about.

Diarrhœa with very offensive flatus. Stitches in rectum; itching and rhagades in anus. Glowing heat in rectum.

Sensation of weakness in bladder and urethra. Increased secretion of urine with coryza. Urine red with much pressure and burning in urethra.

Hoarseness. Hacking cough on inspiring cold air. Tickling in larynx. Sensation as if larynx is split or torn. Oppressed breathing from pressure in middle of chest. Constricted feeling in region of epiglottis. Pain extending to ear.

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.

Yawning with headache and drowsiness. Gaping in deep sleep. Dreams. Wakes at 2 am.

Worse, in the evening, in warm room. Better, in open air, and in cold room.

Compare: Gels; Euph; Kali hyd; Aconite; Ipecac.

Complementary: Phosphor; Thuja; Puls.

Antidotes: Arn; Cham; Verat.

Third potency.

Coryza with frequent sneezing and profuse acrid discharge, corroding upper lip and nose. Lachrymation also profuse but bland. (Euph. reverse).

Cold extends to the bronchi, with profuse secretion of mucus; coughing and much rattling (Chelidon).

Anyone who has cut up raw onions for coming knows what is the effect upon the eyes and nose -irritation, which causes violent sneezing and lachrymation. Then, if the homœopathic law of cure is true, it ought to be a good remedy for coryza, and so it is; but like every other remedy, it cures its own peculiar and characteristic form of the disease.

It has constant and frequent sneezing, with profuse acrid discharge, which burns and corrodes the nose and upper lip, and it is worse in the evening and indoors and better in open air. It has also profuse lachrymation, with burning, biting and smarting of the eyes, but the discharge is bland; that is, it does not make the eyes sore afterwards. There may or may not be headache; if there is it is, like the coryza, worse in warm room or evening and better in open air. I have found it particularly useful in children when the profuse coryza or cold extended downward to the bronchi, with a like profuse secretion in the bronchial tubes, with much coughing and rattling of mucus. Before Cepa came into homœopathic use we used to give Euphrasia when there was profuse coryza and lachrymation. The difference between the two remedies is, that with Cepa the nasal discharge is acrid and the lachrymal bland, while exactly the reverse is true of Euphrasia. The action of the remedy seems to be primarily in the nose with the one and in the eyes with the other, and thus we must learn to differentiate between all remedies.

Modalities < in the evening, and in warm room, > in open air (the coryza).

Melancholy. Fear that the pains would become unbearable.

Dulness. Dull head-ache, with coryza ; worse in the evening ; better in the open air ; but aggravated when returning to a warm room.

Flow of (mild) tears. Redness of the eyes, with itching, burning and stinging, with inclination to rub them. Swelling around the eyes. Dulness of the eyes, with aversion to light and coryza.

Earache. Discharge of pus from the ear. Hardness of hearing.

Profuse watery discharge from the nose, with sneezing, acrid burning, excoriating the nose and upper lip. Fluent coryza, with running of water from the eyes, headache, heat, thirst, cough, trembling of the hands ; worse in the evening and in a room ; better in the open air. Bleeding of the nose.

Sensation as of a lump in the throat. Expectoration of a lumpy mucus through the posterior nares.

Violent cutting pain in the left lower abdomen, with frequent desire to micturate, and burning micturition.

Diarrhœa after midnight and in the morning. Stitches in the rectum. Rhagades at the anus. Itching at the anus (worms).

Pressure and other pains in the region of the bladder. Sensation of weakness in the bladder and urethra. Increased secretion of urine with coryza. Urine red, with much pressure and burning in the urethra.

Oppressed breathing, from pressure in the middle of the chest ; worse in the evening. Cough, when inhaling cold air.

Trembling of the right hand. Panaritium.

Soreness ; the skin is rubbed off by the shoes, especially on the heel.

Inflammation and increased secretions of the raucous membranes. Stitches (head, eyes, ears, rectum, skin). Burning (eyelids, throat, nose, mouth, bladder, skin). Bad effects from wet feet.

Pulse full and accelerated. Heat, with rumbling in the abdomen, coryza and thirst.

Cepa. Common Red Onion. N. O. Liliaceæ. Tincture of the onion; or of whole fresh plant gathered from July to August.

Anus, fissure of. Ascites. Catarrh. Cold. Coryza . Cough. Diarrhœa. Facial paralysis. Feet, easily galled. Hay-fever. Hernia. Influenza. Laryngitis. Panaritium. Pneumonia. Trauma. Whitlow. Whooping-cough. Yellow fever.

Allium cepa covers more symptoms of common cold than any other remedy, as the well-known effect of onions in producing tears would suggest. It will cure a large proportion of cases of cold in the head, but the conditions which most particularly indicate it are: Cough, or cold, or headache < in warm room, > in open air, < again on returning to warm room. It causes burning of eyelids, nose, mouth, throat, bladder, skin. Inflammation and increased secretion of mucous membranes: neuralgic pains like a long thread ; in face, head, neck, and elsewhere; < evening; towards ear from deep within head. The toothache of Cepa is > by cold air or cold washing. It is suited to traumatic neuritis. Hurts do not heal. The feet are easily galled by walking. It was recommended by Dioscorides as a remedy for this condition, and homœopathy has confirmed his observation. Desire for raw onions is an indication for it. Thread-like pains are common in various parts and are characteristic of Cepa . Thread-like pains in face. Left-side facial paralysis has been cured by Cepa . The cough of Cepa is caused by tickling in larynx; constant inclination to hack in order to relieve it. It has cured violent catarrhal laryngitis; hoarse cough with feeling as if it would split and tear the larynx, causing watering of eyes. Cough from inhaling cold air. Cepa has yawning and drowsiness. A raw onion eaten just before going to bed is a popular remedy for sleeplessness. Cepa is a left-side medicine primarily. Symptoms go from left to right. Left eye; left facial paralysis; left inguinal ring. Rest < ; motion > . < Afternoon and evening; when lying down. Damp cold wind and weather = colds and toothache. But cold water and open air > ; warm room < Picking or sucking teeth > toothache. Eyes sensitive to touch.

Compare: Al. sat., Alo., Conval., Lil. tig, Scilla (botan.); Antidoted by: Arn. (toothache); Cham. (abdominal pains); Nux v. (coryza recurring in August); Verat. (colic, with despondency); Thuja (offensive breath and diarrhœa after eating onions). Roasted coffee will remove onion breath. Followed by Calc. c. and Silic. in polypus. Incompatible: All. sat., Alo., Scilla. Complementary: Phos., Puls., Sars., Thuj. Compare also: Aco., Chlorum, Ipec.; Lach. (left to right).

Effects of exposure to damp cold winds and weather. Colds of spring; hay-fever of August; epidemics of spasmodic cough in autumn. Wet feet. Eating spoiled fish. Injuries. Surgical operations (fine shooting pains after).

Very melancholy. — Fears pains will become unbearable. — Often very anxious, with catarrh, dulness of intellect.

Dulness. — Dull headache, with coryza, < in the evening; > in the open air; but < when returning to a warm room. — Pains in temples, most in right; aggravated by winking; extending over forehead, worse on l. side. — Pain in occiput and down the neck.

Flow of (mild) tears. — Excessive non-excoriating lachrymation; l. eye worse, with redness of the eyeball; sensitive to light; worse evenings. — Sensation as if eye were hanging by a string or torn. — Itching, biting, burning in the eyes. — Dulness of the eyes, with aversion to light, and coryza. — Letters appear smaller. — Near objects seem distant with yawning. — Swelling around the eyes.

Earache. — Discharge of pus from the ear. — Hardness of hearing.

Profuse watery discharge from the nose, with sneezing, acrid burning, excoriating the nose and upper lip. — Fluent coryza, with running of water from the eyes, headache, heat, thirst, cough, trembling of the hands; < in evening and in a room; > in the open air. — Ichor oozing out of nose; second stage of scarlatina. — Bleeding of the nose. — A sort of hay-fever every August, morning coryza, violent sneezing, sensitive to the odour of flowers and skin of peaches. — Nasal polypi.

Paralysis of l. half of face, also in limbs of same side.

Sensation as of a lump in the throat. — Expectoration of a lumpy mucus through the posterior nares. — Pain in throat extending to the ear. — Bad odour from the mouth and throat.

Canine hunger. — Appetite, increased or diminished. — Strong craving for raw onions; cannot take any other nourishment. — Pressure in stomach. — Pain in region of pylorus. — Thirst, with heat and coryza. — Nausea, coming from stomach up the throat into the fauces. — Weak, empty feeling in stomach. — Sour eructations.

Rumbling in bowels. — Very offensive flatus. — Belching, with rumbling in and puffing up of the abdomen. — Violent cutting pain in the left lower abdomen, with frequent desire to micturate, and burning micturition. — Pains in hepatic region, spreading into the abdomen. — Violent pains in l. hypogastrium, with urging to urinate, urine scalding. — (Strangulated hernia has been known to follow the eating abundantly of cooked onions.). — Abdomen distended, rumbling, urging, and finally diarrhœa.

Diarrhœa after midnight and in the morning. — Flatus very, offensive. — Hæmorrhoids, tearing, jerking pains in anus. — Stitches in the rectum. — Rhagades at the anus. — Itching at the anus (worms).

Strangury after wet feet. — Dribbling or spouting of urine in old people. — Frequent and copious urination. — Urine red, with much urging and burning in urethra. — Pressure and other pains in the region of the bladder. — Sensation of weakness in the bladder and urethra.

Oppressed breathing, from pressure in the middle of the chest; worse in the evening. — Cough when inhaling cold air. — Catarrhal hoarseness. — Acute bronchitis going from l. to r. — Tickling in throat, with aching in larynx. — Constant inclination to hack. — Hacking cough from inhaling cold air. — Violent catarrhal laryngitis; the hoarse cough seemed to split and tear the larynx. — Much sneezing; he inflates the lungs, raises himself on his toes, then gives a hearty sneeze.

Intense pain in nape of neck. — Chilly crawls run down the back, most at night, with frequent urination, followed by heat and thirst.

Much pain under r. shoulder-blade. — Sore, tired feeling of the limbs, esp. arms. — Trembling of the r. hand. — Panaritium. — Painful affections of the fingers about the nails, red streaks running up the arm.

Soreness; the skin is rubbed off by the shoes, esp. on the heel. — Pain on most external soft part of r. big toe and l. middle finger.

Stitches and burnings; aching. — Stitches (head, eyes, ears, rectum, skin). — Burning (eyelids, throat, nose, mouth, bladder, skin). — Bad effects from wet feet. — Phlegmasia alba dolens. — Traumatic neuritis, pains violent and continuous, wearing out patient. — Inflammation and increased secretions of the mucous membranes. — Senile gangrene. — Trismus after injuries. — Weak and tired; has to lie down. — Aching throughout the body. — Neuralgia from old injuries. — Neuralgic pains, like a long thread, in face, head, neck, and elsewhere; < evenings.

Pricking as from pins. — Redness; nettle-rash, measles, scarlatina, when the complaints are characterised by the characteristic catarrhal symptoms. — Panaritia of lying-in females, red streaks running up arm, very painful.

Yawning; with headache and cramp in stomach; with sleepiness near objects seem distant. — Gaping in deep sleep. — Wakes 2 a.m. — Dreams of being near water; of battles, precipices, deep wells; of storms, high waves; annoying in convalescents.

Pulse full and accelerated. — Heat, with rumbling in the abdomen, coryza, and thirst. — Flitting heat over whole body, and thirst. — Coldness alternates with heat during catarrh. — Sweats easily and copiously.

Apathetic, mornings.
Very melancholy. θ Catarrh.
Indefinable anxiety ; walks about, and finally full of apprehension, throws himself on the bed and now gets up again ; constant violent pains in left side of abdomen, more in middle and lower part of abdomen and in region of bladder, with troubles in urinating and no
stool ; violent thirst ; face expressive of anxiety and doubt ; skin hot, especially in painful and sensitive places ; pulse somewhat accelerated, full and hard.
Fears she will become distracted, from pain in suppuration of fingers.
Confused and absent-minded, in afternoon after wine and coffee.
Makes mistakes in spelling.

Vertigo on rising.
Dulness, pressure, fulness, heaviness in head, most in occiput, < evenings, > in open air, and < when returning to a warm room.
Dulness and confusion of head. θ Coryza. θ Whooping cough.

Stitches as of needles in forehead.
Dull frontal headache. θ Coryza.
Dulness in forehead and whole head, as after inhaling chloroform.
Pain in forehead, with catarrh.
Pains deep in head, over left brow.
Pains in both temples, most severe in right, < by winking ; afterwards the pain extends over forehead, < on left side.
Pain in temples, < after motion of eyelids.
As if swollen and heavy on crown.
Headache, first in occiput, then in forehead, over right eye.
Intense pain in occipital region and cervical spine. θ Influenza.
Confusion in occiput, first on both sides and towards upper part, pressing down sideways, then behind ears and around whole occiput.
Severe headache, with slight coryza.
Whole head becomes hot.
Head full and heavy.
Fulness and heaviness in head, as if it was bound up, with flickering before eyes.
Pressive headache, with sensation as if whole head was wrapped up in warm water.
An electric shock passes through head.
Dull headache, with coryza ; < in evening, > in open air, but aggravated when returning to a warm room.
Headache ceases during menses.
Catarrhal headache.

Stitches over whole left forehead, externally ; they draw into ear, upper jaw and teeth of same side ; evenings.
Numbness in bones of skull, as if asleep.
Tingling pain behind left mastoid process.
Sensation as if whole head was wrapped up in warm water.
Prickling sweat on bald vertex after each meal.
(OBS :) Falling out of hair.

Eyes sensitive to light, particularly left.
Cloudy vision by candlelight.
Dullness of eyes, with aversion to light. θ Coryza. θ Pertussis.
Flickering and blinding before eyes ; everything dances hither and thither.
A bright dazzling in distance and dimness near by.
Letters appear smaller ; when getting sleepy, eyes dull, dim and sensitive to light. θ Coryza.
Burning, biting and smarting of eyes as from smoke, wants to rub them.
Itching, burning, stinging of eyes.
Sensation as if eye was hanging by a string or torn.
Drawing pain extending into left eye from cheek.
Eyes red, itching, and sensitive to touch, left worse.
Eyes watery and suffused, capillaries injected. θ Coryza.
Muco-watery discharge from eyes and nose.
Excessive lachrymation, with redness of eyeballs, with frequent sneezing. θ Coryza.
Lachrymation of left eye, with coryza, was much greater, eye was much redder and more sensitive to light than right.
Profuse bland lachrymation. θ Coryza.
Lachrymation is for most part in evening in warm room ; l. eye weeps most and is more sensitive to light.
Shooting pain in right lachrymal duct.
Winks with eyes, with pain in temples.
Smarting of inner surface of upper lids.
Swelling of lids and around eyes. θ Coryza.
Thread-like pain : over right eye, towards root of nose ; from cheek towards eye.
Needle stitches in eyebrows.
Itching in supraorbital region, more on left side.
Heat in left eyebrow.
Pain over right eye to root of nose.
Catarrhal ophthalmia. θ Whooping cough.

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Allium cepa is used principally for "colds."

There are various phases of these "colds," in the nose, in the throat, in the larynx, in the bronchial tubes.

The patient and all the phases of his "cold," his coryza, his Ia laryngitis, his cough, all his complaints, are aggravated by warmth, are worse in a warm room, excepting the tickling in the larynx, which is sometimes aggravated by drawing in cold air.

In this way the cou is sometimes excited by cold air but the patient himself is better in cold air and sensitive to heat.

Most of the symptoms are worse in the evening, the symptoms of coryza, the "cold," and the general symptoms.

These are symptoms most striking general features of Allium Cepa.

It is not strange that the old ladies used to bind onions on the ear for earache and around the neck for sore throats, for onion is very frequently indicated in almost every climate for the effects of cold.

Cold, damp, penetrating winds, in any climate, are likely to bring on Allium cepa complaints-coryza, Ia grippe, influenza or whatever they may be called, and usually there is congestive headache.

Rawness in the nose, copious flow of water from the eyes, which is always bland; copious watery discharge from the nose, which is always excoriating.

Rawness in the larynx and throat, extending down into the chest. Raw in the nose. In twenty-four hours it reaches the larynx.

Cough, excited by tickling in the larynx and when lying down at night in a warm room.

On going to bed in the evening Allium has its most troublesome aggravation.

I have heard patients describe the pain in the larynx on coughing, saying that it felt as if someone was reaching down with a hook at every cough.

Tearing in the larynx with every cough. Sneezing, rawness of all the mucous membranes and that tearing cough, all symptoms worse in a warm room and in the even ing; it is astonishing how quickly the onion will break up that "cold."

Now we will take up the particulars of the coryza. Among the earlier symptoms will be the sneezing, which comes with increasing frequency. A watery discharge drips from the nose constantly, burns like fire, and excoriates the upper lip and the wings of the nose until there are rawness and redness.

Notice that the fluid from the nose is excoriating and the fluid from the eyes bland. Bear that in mind, for when we come to study Euphrasia we will find just the opposite.

We will find just such a watery discharge from the nose and such copious lachrymation; but the lachrymation is acrid and the discharge from the nose bland. The nasal discharge of Cepa fairly eats the hair off of the upper lip. And there is so much congestion that the patient has a sensation of fullness in the nose, with throbbing and burning, and sometimes nosebleed.

Pains through the jaws, in the face; and these pains extend into the head. Dull frontal headaches, occipital headaches; headaches very severe and the eyes cannot stand the light; tearing, bursting, throbbing in the head.

Now, there is another phase of this medicine. Why it begins the left side and goes over to the right nose, I do not know, but it usually does this.

Stuffing up of the side of the nose, watery, acrid discharge from the left side of the nose - in another twenty-four hours the right side is invaded.

"Profuse nasal discharge. Colds after damp north easterly winds."

That is, after damp, cold winds, for they may come from different directions in different localities. Fluent coryza with headache, tears from the eyes, want of appetite, cough and trembling in the open air.

"Every year in August, morning coryza, with violent sneezing, very sensitive to the odor of flowers and skin of peaches."

That is one form of hay fever cured by Allium cepa. It will wipe out an attack of hay fever in a few days, when the symptoms agree.

You may know that the true nature of hay fever is not generally understood. It is really only an explosion of chronic disease, that is, it is a manifestation of psora, and can be eradicated only by antipsoric treatment. Many a time have I seen hay fever wiped out in one season by a short-acting remedy, only to return the next just the same, and perhaps another remedy will be required.

As soon as the hay fever is stopped you must begin with constitutional treatment. There will be symptoms, if you know how to hunt for them, that differ altogether from the acute attack. When the hay fever is on these do not appear.

It is a difficult matter to find a constitutional remedy when the hay fever is at its height, for it resembles an acute disease; but it is a manifestation of psora, like an other manifestation of psora, as eruptions, cough, etc.

The nose may manifest only a certain phase of chronic disease in one season which may, for instance, be suited to Allium cepa. I remember one time having occasion to prescribe Allium cepa at long distance. it was near a homoeopathic pharmacy. I wired the pharmacist to send my patient Allium cepa, and he labeled it.

Well, the patient kept the bottle and used it next season, but it did no good. That is likely to be the case, even when the symptoms seem to agree. In a psoric condition a short-acting remedy is insufficient; it may help for one day only, and the deep-acting remedy that includes the patient as well as the hay fever and all the other symptoms will have to be administered.

The best time to treat hay fever is after the acute attack subsides and until it begins again the next season. It will then occur in a greatly modified form, different from any the patient has ever had, and calling for a different remedy.

That will be the case if the constitutional remedy has been properly selected.

In these coryzas the inflammation soon spreads to the ears, the throat and the larynx.

The old mothers used to put onions on the baby's ear when it had earache. That is not surprising, when we see all the pains and aches belonging to this remedy. Jerking pains from the throat toward the Eustachian tube. Violent earache, even to the discharge of pus from the car. Ringing in the ears. Stitches towards the ear from the forehead. Pain like thick threads drawing from deep within the head. Stitching, tearing pains in the ear, with whooping cough, with coryza, with laryngitis.

In the household where a medicine case is kept, Pulsatilla is the standard remedy for earache, and it is true that only occasionally has a doctor to be sent for. Pulsatilla has such a strong affinity for the ear that it will cure earache in almost all sensitive children who cry pitifully. But those who are snappish, who are never suited, who will throw away something they have asked for and slap the nurse in the face must have Chamomilla.

With Pulsatilla, Chamomilla and Allium cepa you can cure the majority of earaches in children.

Further, as to the eye-symptoms that accompany the Allium cepa colds, remember that the discharge from the eye is bland. Although there is burning in the eyes the tears do not excoriate as they flow down over the cheek. Profuse, bland lachrymation. Lachrymation in the evening in a warm room.

We all know what a flatulent vegetable the onion is. It is a wonderful medicine for babies with colic. Cutting, rending, tearing pains, drawing the poor little thing almost double. It screams with the violent cutting in the lower abdomen.

"Stitching pains in the abdomen."

"Colicky pains beginning in the hepatic region and spreading over the whole abdomen, worse around the navel; worse when sitting."

Wind colic. Allium cepa is a wonderful remedy in whooping cough, and when it is indicated the child will often have indigestion, vomiting and flatulency; will pass offensive flatus, will be doubled up with colic. Allium cepa also cures a ragged, sensitive condition of the anus, with bleeding, in infants.

Acute complaints of the voice; catarrhal hoarseness; copious expectoration of mucus from the larynx. Violent inflammation of the larynx coming on very rapidly, with that cough I spoke of, and the tearing in the larynx.

Some will describe it as a sensation as if something were being torn loose. Those who describe more accurately will say that it feels as if a hook were dragging up through the larynx with every cough.

Tickling in the larynx with hoarseness. In the whooping cough there is this same painfulness of the larynx. The child shakes and shudders and you can see that it dreads the cough because of the tearing pain in the larynx.

Cough and difficult breathing from inspiring cold-air, yet a warm draft will so increase the tickling that it is sure to set the patient coughing. So the cough is aggravated both by cold air and a warm room.

Colds sometimes travel down into the bronchial tubes and are attended with fever and rapid pulse. If the tickling in the larynx, the cough from inspiring the cold air, worse in a warm room and in the evening, with tearing pain in the larynx, are present, Allium cepa will cure.

The cough is spasmodic and resembles croup or whooping cough. Cepa has a record for croupy cough.

The old lady binds onion on the throat of the child with croup, and no doubt, out in the back woods, where there are no doctors, it was far better than Old School treatment.

Here is a fairly good description from the Guiding Symptoms:

"Hoarse, harsh, ringing, spasmodic cough, excited by constant tickling in the larynx; cough produces a raw, splitting pain in the larynx, so acute and so severe as to compel the patient to crouch from suffering and to make every effort to suppress the cough."

"Severe, laryngeal cough, which compels the patient to grasp the larynx; feels as if cough would tear it."

The child will reach up to the larynx and clutch it. This is wholly different from the Aconite condition, when the child, after exposure to a dry, cold wind, wakes before midnight with a hoarse, barking cough, and clutches the larynx.

So Aconite cannot be substituted for Allium cepa.

Another affection over which this remedy has marvellous power is traumatic neuritis, often met with in a stump after amputation. The pains are almost unbearable, rapidly exhausting the strength of the patient.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Canine hunger, or may have loss of appetite.

Bad effects from eating spoiled fish.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Pain in uterine region.

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

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 oppressed from pressure in middle of chest.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Soreness in the limbs.

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

Weak and tired, has to lie down.
Lassitude.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Old age; gangrene.

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.

Natural order, Liliaceæ. A tincture is prepared from the common red onion.

The first and most marked effects are catarrhal, nose, eyes and larynx; less marked on intestinal tract. ▶ Neuralgic pains in various parts like a fine thread. ▶ General aggravation from warm air.

Iod., Brom., Arsenicum, Squilla, Arum., Puls.

Shock, with eructations of wind. ▶ Indescribable revolution in whole body. ▶ Feeling as after taking cold, feverish, agg. evenings, with heat in face, tongue and mouth feel burnt and dry, without thirst, drinks only a small quantity, restlessness in limbs (Ars.), next day tongue coated. ▶ Troubles as after taking cold, pains in all bones, with aching in throat, prostration, etc. ▶ Restlessness, with pain in abdomen. ▶ Deathly faintness after profuse micturition. ▶ Weakness (Ars.). ▶ Amelioration afternoon and evenings; after dinner; after supper; by diarrhœa.

Confusion and absent-mindedness from much business in afternoon, after wine and coffee. ▶ Indefinable anxiety and apprehension with the abdominal pain (Ars.).

Electric shocks through. ▶ Aching; morning, also especially in temples; evenings in room, with coryza (Iod.); agg. evening, with coryza; amel. open air, also with nasal discharge; deep within, extending forward and outward to ears; moving from deep within to ear like threads, remaining in spots; oppressive. ▶ Confusion. ▶ Dullness; with coryza and lachrymation. ▶ Fulness; with heaviness as if bound up and with flickering before eyes; F., with pressure in stomach. ▶ Heaviness. ▶ Sensation as if wrapped up in warm water during the headache.

Stitches externally over left, in evening, drawing into ear, upper jaw and teeth of same side. ▶ Aching in region of organ of "concentration" over right eye; over right eye, extending to root of nose; neuralgic, over right eye, extending into root of nose; deep-seated aching over left brow; oppressive, over eyes, frequently going through head like an electric shock. ▶ Confusion. ▶ Dullness as after chloroform, and in whole head. ▶ Heaviness; over both eyes.

▶ Aching in temples, agg. right, agg. winking, afterwards extending over forehead, agg. left side. ▶ Tingling pain behind left mastoid process. ▶ Aching in vertex; left side of vertex. ▶ Swollen and heavy feeling on crown. ▶ Aching from both sides of head, downward and inward towards middle.

Aching; both sides, amel. in evening after beer, with dull confusion from crown backward and downward. ▶ Aching on both sides of occiput, then in two round places in upper posterior part of head, then a general and humming sensation of the part being asleep. ▶ Pressure in upper part of O. in evening, becoming about 11 o'clock a sensation as if asleep in bone. ▶ Confusion on both sides of and towards upper part, pressing down sideways, then behind ears around whole occiput.

The headache of Allium cepa is mostly in the forehead, extending to temples and downward to eyes and into the face, associated with coryza.

Redness, agg. left. ▶ Stitches in left in morning. ▶ Biting sensation as if there were smoke under upper lids, agg. night. ▶ Pain; as if they hung loose posteriorly on a string, could be bored into with the fingers and torn out. ▶ Lachrymation of left, with redness of ball; L., agg. left; L., in morning; L. agg. in evening, in warm room; L., with coryza. ▶ Burning of lids; in outside of right upper lid. ▶ Irritation of left upper lid; after drinking coffee, agg. warm room, amel. open air. ▶ Dim vision by candle light. ▶ Dazzling vision in the distance and dim near by. ▶ Flickering and blindness. ▶ Sensitiveness to light, agg. left.

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Violent acute catarrh, particularly of the eyes, nose, and larynx; neuralgic pains; general aggravation from warm air.

Dull pain in forehead and temples (with the acute coryza), > in open air.

Acute inflammation with profuse burning lachrymation (which is not very excoriating).
Pain as if the eyes hung loose on a string.
Photophobia.

Acute coryza with violent sneezing (particularly on deep breathing), profuse, excoriating, watery discharge, with lachrymation and headache, > open air.

Catarrhal inflammation, with a sensation of constriction in the region of the epiglottis.
Pain, sometimes extending to the ear.

Flatulence; pain in hypogastric region, like a fine thread extending inward and upward.

Urine profuse, red; micturition frequent with burning.

Acute laryngitis with great hoarseness and pain on coughing as if the "lining" of the larynx would be torn out, or as if the larynx would split, with sudden lachrymation.
Hacking cough < cold air.

Fine, thread-like pains, shooting (following amputations or injuries).
Ulcers on the heel.

Flitting heat at intervals, irregular (associated with the acute catarrhal symptoms).

Indicated in coryza, with hoarseness, acrid discharge from the nose and harsh, splitting cough.

Catarrhal headache, chiefly frontal, worse in the warm room, toward evening.

Eyes sore, smarting, sensitive to light; lachrymation.

Sneezing when entering a warm room.

Copious, watery and exceedingly acrid nasal discharge.

Tickling in the larynx, with hacking cough upon inspiring cold air.

Tightness in the throat and oppressed breathing.

Violent cough, with the sensation as though the larynx would split to pieces; croupy cough.

Intense pain in the back of the neck.

Derangements of appetite incidental to having a cold, with strong craving for raw onions.

Worse in a warm room, in the evening.

Better in a cool room; in the open air.

Pulse full and accelerated.

Heat, with rumbling in the abdomen, coryza and thirst.

Soreness of the lower extremities.

Breathing oppressed from pressure in the middle of the chest, worse in the evening.

Cough when inhaling cold air.

Pressure and other pains in the region of the bladder.

Sensation of weakness in the bladder and urethra.

Increased secretion of urine, with coryza.

Urine red, with much pressure and burning in the urethra.