Allium Cepa all-c.

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.