Allium Cepa all-c.

Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica

C. M. Boger · Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica · A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1915 — the Materia Medica half

Region

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

Worse

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

Better

Cool, open air. Bathing. Motion.

General

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

Particulars

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.

Related

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

Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica

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Keynote

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.

Relations

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).

Aggravation

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

Amelioration

In cold room and open air (Puls.).

Key-Notes to the Materia Medica

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General

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.

Mental

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

Head

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.

Eyes

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.

Nose

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.

Face

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

Throat

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.

Stomach

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.

Abdomen

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.

Stool

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

Urine

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.

Chest

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.

Neck and Back

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

Extremities

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.

Sleep

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

Skin

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.

Generalities

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.

Seven Hundred Red Line Symptoms from Materia Medica

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Red line symptom

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.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Red Onion

General

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.

Head

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

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

Diarrhœa 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 pressure in 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 am.

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.

Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics

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Leaders

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

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

Text Book of Materia Medica

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Mind and Disposition

Melancholy. Fear that the pains would become unbearable.

Head

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

Eyes

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.

Ears

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

Nose

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.

Throat

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

Abdomen

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

Stool and Anus

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

Urinary Organs

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.

Chest

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

Upper Extremities

Trembling of the right hand. Panaritium.

Lower Extremities

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

Generalities

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.

Fever

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

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

John Henry Clarke · A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica · 1st edition (1900-02, three volumes); homeoint.org / Médi-T HTML digitization

General

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

Clinical

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.

Characteristics

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.

Relations

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).

Causation

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).

Mind

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

Head

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.

Eyes

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.

Ears

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

Nose

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.

Face

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

Throat

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.

Stomach

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.

Abdomen

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.

Stool and Anus

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).

Urinary Organs

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.

Respiratory Organs

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.

Neck and Back

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

Upper Limbs

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.

Lower Limbs

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.

Generalities

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.

Skin

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.

Sleep

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.

Fever

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.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

Constantine Hering · The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica · 1879–91

Mind

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.

Sensorium

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.

Inner head

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.

Outer head

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.

Sight and eyes

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.

Hearing and ears

Noises in ears, buzzing and roaring ; sounds appear to come from a distance.
Humming in ears on lying down.
Roaring in left ear, as after a severe cold.
Tinnitus. θ Pertussis.
Hardness or dulness of hearing.
Stitches towards ear from left forehead.
Pain, like thick threads, towards ear from deep within head.
Pains jerking from throat towards eustachian tube.
Chilling or burning twitching in region of right eustachian tube near throat.
Earache.
Discharge of pus from ear.
Pain behind ears deep within head from backward and inward to ears.
Pecking behind right ear.
Under left ear a hard swelling, size of a hazelnut, extending from above angle of lower jaw to ear, from which pains go into ear, especially on pressure.

Smell and nose

Epistaxis.
Dryness of anterior nares.
Nose stopped, nasal voice.
A feeling of tightness at root of nose.
Pain into root of nose from above right eye.
Constant sneezing, with profuse acrid coryza, < on coming into a warm room. θ Pertussis.
Immediately after rising from bed in morning violent sneezing, as if it would tear her to pieces.
Crawling in right nostril, as before sneezing ; must frequently blow thin mucus out of nose.
Frequent sneezing, lachrymation, pain in forehead, acrid discharge from nostril, hacking cough on inspiration cold air, cold alternates with heat.
Profuse nasal discharge. θ Scarlatina.
Acrid discharge from left nostril.
Cold begins mostly on left side and goes to right.
Spring coryza.
Colds after damp northeasterly winds.
Fluent coryza, with headache, tears from eyes, feels hot and thirsty, with want of appetite ; cough and trembling of hands ; < evenings and in-doors ; > in open air.
Ichor oozing out of nose. θ Second stage of scarlatina.
Ichorous fluid from nose, when singing. θ Convalescence from scarlatina.
Acrid watery discharge dropping from tip of nose.
Dropping from nose, watery discharge, burning and corroding nose and upper lip.
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).
Coryza, at times with stoppage of nose, so that she speaks through nose, at others with profuse mucous discharge.
Catarrh, with watering and smarting eyes, with violent sneezing ; he must "take a long breath", and then sneezes correspondingly.
Violent catarrh, after northeast wind and rainy weather ; eyes suffused, lids very red, as from crying and rubbing them ; nose dropping, throat sore, and some cough.
Coryza : after chilliness ; after flushes of heat at evening.
Coryza, with burning of edges of nose, profuse discharge.
Coryza, > in open air and < in warm room. θ Pertussis.
With coryza, trembling of hands, in evening.
Large pieces of a mucous polypus were blown out and dropping of water ceased. θ Polypus.
Nasal polypi.
Burning in edges of nose and lips. θ Coryza.

Upper face

Expression of anxiety and despair, with pain in abdomen.
Threadlike pains about face, temples and ears. θ Pertussis.
Drawing pain in left cheek going into interior of left eye ; > in cold air.
Threadlike pains in upper maxilla.
Throbbing, drawing, pressing pains, with swelling of cheek. θ Toothache.
Drawing stitches into upper jaw and teeth from left forehead.
Warm spots on right cheek.
Face hot, especially in evening.
Paralysis of left half of face, also somewhat noticed in limbs of same side, too copious secretion of urine.
Eruption of nettlerash of face.
Upper lip red and sensitive from acrid nasal discharge.

Lower face

Worse when chewing. θ Toothache.

Teeth and gums

Toothache, with coryza, > when catarrh is worse, and < when catarrh ceases.
Toothache in molars, after exposure to damp cold wind, and < in warm room and from warm drinks ; > from cold water and picking or sucking.
Toothache, going from left to right.
Jerking pain in last molars.
Pressure in right back teeth on going into a warm room.
In first upper teeth, right side, sensitive drawing from root to crown ; later same feeling in corresponding teeth on left side.
Pressive pain in root of left eye tooth disturbing sleep, with excessive heat in cheeks ; > towards morning during sweat ; cheeks feel swollen.
Feeling as if back teeth were too long, with some pain, during sleep ; > on rising.
Drawing stitches into teeth from left forehead.
Teeth are dirty and turn yellow.

Taste, speech, tongue

Disgusting taste in mouth ; sweet and nauseous.
Burning taste, more on gums.
Loss of taste.
Tongue dirty, slimy and furred, especially in morning.
Dryness at root of tongue, on right side.
Pains under tongue ; small sore elevations at lower insertion of frenum.

Inner mouth

Aching like a large lump on root of tongue, roof of mouth, eustachian opening, extends towards ear.
Sensation of fulness and soreness behind palate.
Dryness and smarting above palate.
Dryness in mouth, on root of tongue, on soft palate and in throat.
Dryness in mouth, without thirst.
Mouth and tongue as if scalded.
Bad odor from mouth and throat. θ Toothache.
Expectoration of a lumpy mucus from posterior nares.

Palate and throat

Lumps of mucus from choanæ, in evening, having a nauseous taste.
Tough viscous mucus in fauces and throat.
Hawks up mucus of a sweetish taste.
Jerking pains from throat towards eustachian tube.
Sensation of fulness, soreness and coldness behind palate.
Drawing pain in left side of throat, > by cold air.
Raw feeling in fauces, with tickling in region of epiglottis, first on l, then on right side.
Soreness and dryness of throat. θ Influenza.
Pain in throat below larynx, as after swallowing too large a mouthful, or as if swollen ; pain extends every little while into right ear ; whole afternoon, coming on at midday.
A constrictive pain in forepart of throat, low down in region of os hyoides, later low down posteriorly on r. side.
In throat and orifice of eustachian tube, chilling or burning twitching and gnawing, not painful.
A sense of nausea extending into throat.
Sensation as of a ball or lump in throat.
In pharynx feeling as if food remained stuck behind breast bone.
Heat low in pharynx, extending into stomach.
Numb feeling in posterior wall of pharynx.
Throat aches, as after taking cold.
Coldness in pharynx.
Dryness in throat.

Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions

Canine hunger, or loss of appetite. θ Pertussis. θ Coryza.
Less appetite and increased thirst.
Violent thirst, with a severe cold, frequent sneezing, running of tears, pain in forehead, acrid discharge from left nostril, hacking cough on inspiring cold air.
Thirst. θ Pertussis.
Desire for raw onions. θ Pneumonia. θ Yellow fever.

Eating and drinking

Bad effects from eating spoiled fish.
After each meal a prickling sweat on bald vertex.
Stomach weak, cannot bar anything but raw onions. θ Yellow fever.

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

Hiccough.
Sour eructations.
Belching, with rumbling in and puffing up of abdomen.
Belching, with fever heat.
Nausea, squeamishness, comes from stomach up throat into fauces, more when rising.
Nausea forced up throat, like a thrust.
Horrible deathly nausea in stomach, with slight eructations, which relieve somewhat, after eating.

Scrobiculum and stomach

Pain below sternum.
Pressure in epigastrium.
Pressure in stomach, with gaping.
Feels a pressure on cardia from behind.
Stomach feels empty, weak.
Pain below sternum to right, in region of pylorus.

Hypochondria

Pressure in region of liver, with crawls along back, and coldness.
Pains begin in hepatic region and spread over abdomen. θ Colic.
Stitches in left side, > on lying.
Contracting sensation in spleen, with stitches while lying.

Abdomen and loins

Colicky pain in region of navel, < on sitting, > when walking.
Wind colic. θ Pertussis.
Cutting in belly, like a thread, towards centre.
Colic : from catching cold by getting feet wet ; after eating too much ; after eating cucumbers, salad, etc. ; hemorrhoidal ; of children.
Severe pains in abdomen. θ Pertussis.
Colicky pains, beginning in hepatic region and spreading over whole abdomen, worse around navel ; < when sitting ; > when moving about and by passing flatus.
Violent pain in hypogastrium, to left, with urging to urinate ; burning micturation. θ Incarcerated hernia.
Stitches in loins.
Deep in pelvis on a small spot to right, violent pressure and cutting as with small knives.
Flashes of heat in abdomen.
Abdomen puffed up, with rumbling, more to left ; ineffectual urging to stool, with heat, some pains, difficult breathing, and inconvenience of clothing ; > after wind passes freely.
Abdomen distended, dull in head, urging to stool ends with diarrhœa.
Rumbling in bowels, with stomachache, after breakfast.
Violent cutting pain in left lower abdomen, with frequent desire to micturate, and burning micturation.
Heat in abdomen, with pain.
Ascites.
Annoying pains over middle of groin.
Pressure in left inguinal ring.
Hernia in left groin much protruded and strangulated ; very severe pains from high up in left side of hypochondrium drew towards incarcerated hernia ; very restless ; much fever, etc.
Periodic pains in pubic region, < on sitting.

Stools and rectum

Flatus very offensive, and moist ; mornings.
Bowels loose, after midnight, or towards morning, with offensive flatus. θ Pertussis.
Odorless masses of wind.
Urging to stool, with rumbling in bowels, but nothing passes.
Constipation, following intermittents treated by quinine.
Difficult passing of feces ; passage interrupted.
Urging without a passage, but stitches in rectum.
Contraction, cutting, tearing pain at anus during stool, with irritation of hemorrhoids.
Hemorrhoidal pains.
A very painful stitch extends along rectum downward.
Tearing jerks in anus ; also biting and crawling.
In anus, and protruding hemorrhoids, a cold creeping, like a worm, more on left side.
Itching at anus. θ Worms.
Rhagades in anus.
Blood passes with stool.

Urinary organs

Pains in renal region and pressure in region of bladder. θ Pertussis.
Region of bladder very sensitive, child screams if hand is placed there.
In bladder a burning pressure, afterwards in sacrum ; pain in region of kidneys, more left side ; pain in groins.
Pressing and other pains in region of bladder.
Sensation of weakness and warmth in bladder and urethra.
Frequent urinating ; with burning in urethra ; urine very red ; all day, still oftener evenings ; especially with shuddering and chilliness.
Spasmodic strangury after getting feet and bowels cold.
Dribbling or spurting of urine, in old people.
Urine frothy and iridescent.
In albuminuria it diminished urging for frequent urination and also the quantity of albumen in urine.
Polyuria.
Increased secretion of urine. θ Coryza. θ Catarrh. θ Paralysis.
Urine : frothy and clear ; red ; reddish-yellow, with sandy sediment.

Male sexual organs

Increased sexual desire.
Erections, with painful tension, without sexual desire, in morning.
After coitus pain in bladder and prostate gland.
Weakness in hips interferes with coition.
Drawing in spermatic cords.
Pain from inguinal ring along spermatic cord.
Burning on glans penis and in urethra.
Pressive pains in bladder and prostate.
Pain in pubic region.

Female sexual organs

Pain in uterine region.
During menses, headache ceases and returns when they disappear.
Amenorrhœa.

Pregnancy. parturition. lactation

In childbed, panaritia on several fingers, with red streaks up arm ; pains driving to despair.
After forceps delivery, swelling of whole lower limb, exceedingly painful, mostly in thigh.

Voice and larynx. trachea and bronchia

Tickling in epiglottis.
Catarrhal hoarseness. θ Pertussis.
Pain as if larynx would be torn when coughing. θ Coryza.
Tickling in larynx, with hoarseness.
Tickling in throat, with aching in larynx. θ Pertussis.
Throbbing in larynx, and sensation as if it contracted.
Constant inclination to hack in order to relieve tickling in larynx.
Violent catarrhal laryngitis ; hoarse cough seemed to split and tear larynx, causes watering of eyes, etc.
Acute bronchitis, going from left to right.

Respiration

Oppressed breathing : from pressure in middle of chest ; < in evening ; in ascites. θ Pertussis.
Hacking and worrying till he cannot breathe. θ Coryza.
He must take a long breath, and then sneezes correspondingly.
On inspiring cold air, hacking cough.
On deep inspiration, sticking in left side.

Cough

Laryngeal cough, frequently repeated. θ Coryza.
Severe laryngeal cough, which compels patient to grasp larynx ; feels as if cough would tear it. θ Coryza.
Hoarse, harsh, ringing, spasmodic cough ; excited by constant tickling in larynx ; cough produces a raw, splitting pain in larynx, so acute and so severe as to compel patient to crouch from suffering, and to make every effort to suppress cough. θ Pertussis.
Frequent cough, tension in upper part of chest, loss of appetite ; < every evening.
Cough, with fulness in head, especially in occiput, with heat, copious fluent acrid coryza and profuse bland lachrymation. θ Whooping cough ;
Cough increases in evening.
Cough brought on by inhaling cold air.
Hacking cough from inhaling cold air.
Constant inclination to hack in order to relieve tickling in larynx.
Spasmodic cough simulating croup.

Inner chest and lungs

Pain in chest as though food had lodged behind sternum.
Stitches, with burning, in middle of left side of chest, when taking a deep breath.
Pains here and there flitting through chest.
Pressure in upper middle part of chest makes respiration difficult.
Tension in upper part of chest, with coryza and cough.
Rattling in chest.
Tough mucus from chest.
Epidemics of autumnal influenza.
Incipient pneumonia in children.

Heart, pulse and circulation

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

Neck and back

Intense pain in cervical spine. θ Influenza.
Pain a hand-breadth below right shoulder, more towards spine, after long sitting.
Right shoulder blade painful on lying in bed.
Crawls in back ; after sitting, pain under right shoulder blade.
Stitches in lumbar region.
Pain in small of back, if bowels did not move.
Burning pressure in small of back.
Shiverings in back.
Chills run up back. θ Pertussis.
Chilly crawls run down back, most at night, more frequent urination, followed by heat and thirst.
Rigidity of spinal column in periodic attacks, accompanied by pain through whole chest.

Upper limbs

Sweat in axilla.
Pain in right shoulder blade, when lying in bed.
Pain under right shoulder, in belly and pubic region.
Stitch runs through right arm, from shoulder blade to elbow, with burning pain.
Pains from a blow in right elbow joint.
Numbness in left elbow, < on slight motion.
Needle-stitches in arms.
Pain in arms, more left forearm.
Weak sensation, especially in arms.
Pain in middle of left radius, < writing, > from rubbing.
Lame sensation in all joints of arm.
Pain on right wrist, on back and extensor side, evenings.
Hands red and dry, as if he had been in the cold.
Pain in left middle finger, and in right fourth and fifth fingers.
Sweat in palms of hands.
Trembling of right hand, he can hardly write.
Whitlow, on margin of skin around finger nails, inflamed and suppurating, pains up whole arm.
Voluptuous, corrosive itching, especially on palmar side of left thumb, from first to second phalanx, in evening.
Panaritium.
Suppuration, after a prick with a needle, under left thumb nail ; a red streak up to elbow, where a lump the size of a hazelnut is formed.

Lower limbs

Weakness of hips. θ Pertussis. θ Interfering with coitus.
Excessive tired feeling in region of hips, in evening, on rising from sitting, and on walking.
Nettlerash on thighs.
Bruised feeling in left thigh, near knee.
Pain, almost burning pressure, in upper part of left thigh, towards outer side.
Pain on outer side of right thigh, above knee.
Glowing sensation on outer side and upper part of both thighs.
Pain above knees.
Shooting pains in left leg and right foot.
Stitches in right knee, from within.
Lameness in knee.
Paralytic pains in knee joint.
Burning pressure in middle of left lower leg, then on right.
Pains in ankle joint.
Sore and raw spots on feet, especially heel, from friction.
Painful twitching on inner side of left heel.
Pain in most external soft parts of right great toe, and also in left middle finger.
Brittle hoofs and losing hair, with horses (tincture in water).

Limbs in general

Soreness in limbs and aching in all bones, as after taking a cold. θ Coryza.
Tired feeling in all limbs.
Weak sensation in limbs after flatulent troubles.
Neuralgia of stump (after amputation), violent burning stinging pains.

Rest. position. motion

In lying : increased earache, toothache, splenic pain.
Lying : stitches in spleen ; in bed, pain in shoulder blade.
Sitting : < colic in region of navel and hepatic region ; < periodic pains in pubic region.
Rising : vertigo ; > toothache.
Walking : > colic in region of navel.
Motion : of eyelids, pain in temple ; > colic.

Nerves

Weak and tired, has to lie down.
Deathly faintness after profuse micturition.
Lassitude. θ Pertussis.
Traumatic chronic neuritis ; pains violent and wearing out the patient.
Neuroma.

Sleep

Yawning : with headache and cramp in stomach ; with sleepiness ; near objects seem distant.
Gaping in deep sleep.
Restless sleep, drowsy in morning.
At evening, walking in street, increased dropping from nose, from both nostrils, without sensation of coryza.
Wakes nights at 2 A. M., with excited pulse ; cannot sleep again till morning ; without any chill, only heat without any thirst ; disappears mornings, but is < again for a few hours after breakfast, afterwards much prostrated.
Dreams : of being near the water ; of battles, fights, precipices and deep wells ; of storms at sea, high waves ; annoying, in convalescents.

Time

At 2 A. M. : awakes ; heat without thirst.
Morning : apathetic, restless, drowsy ; violent sneezing ; pressive pain in root of eye tooth > ; tongue dirty, slimy, furred ; offensive flatus ; bowels loose ; erections ; cannot sleep till morning.
In afternoon : confused and absentminded.
Worse in afternoon and evening ; when lying down. θ Pertussis.
Evening : dulness, pressure in head < ; stitches left forehead into ear ; lachrymation ; fluent coryza < ; face hot ; raises lumps of mucus from choanæ ; frequent urination ; pain in right wrist ; pain in fingers ; dropping from
nose.
In evening : after drinking beer and eating herring, excessive thirst ; heat and severe coryza, with much lachrymation, headache, acrid, burning discharge from nose, so that upper lip became red and sensitive.

Temperature and weather

Colds and toothache after damp cold wind and weather.
Bad effects from getting feet wet.
Warm room : < dulness, pressure, heaviness, < constant sneezing ; < fluent coryza ; < toothache.
Patient likes to wash himself frequently and is fond of being in open air. θ Toothache.
Cold water : > toothache.
Open air : > dulness, pressure, heaviness in head ; > fluent coryza ; > toothache.
Cold air : > drawing pain in left cheek and throat ; toothache ; hacking cough.
Spring : coryza.
August : hay fever.
Autumnal epidemics of spasmodic cough.

Fever

Coldness alternates with heat. θ Catarrh.
Chills, followed by fever. θ Influenza.
Heat in head, on head, in brows, in face, in cheeks, in throat down to stomach and bowels.
Heat with coryza, alternating with cold and flitting heat over whole body and thirst ; evenings.
Attacks of flushes of heat. θ Coryza.
Heat and thirst, with rumbling in belly. θ Coryza.
Heat, without thirst, 2 A. M., passes off by morning, < again after breakfast.
Heat. θ Pertussis.
Sweats easily and copiously.
Yellow fever.

Attacks, periodicity

Periodic pain : in pubic region.
In Spring : coryza.
In Autumn : epidemics of spasmodic cough.

Locality and direction

Downward pain inward : headache.
Right to left in upper half of body, left to right, in lower part, in provings.
Commencing left side, going to right. θ Coryza. θ Colds.
First left, then right : nostril, acrid discharge ; toothache ; acute bronchitis.
Left : eye itches and is more sensitive to light and weeps more ; pains deep in brow ; forehead, stitches ; tingling pain behind mastoid ; itching in supraorbital region ; heat in eyebrow ; roaring in ear ; ear, hard swelling ; drawing in
cheek, going to eye ; forehead down to teeth, drawing stitches ; face, paralysis ; toothache ; first upper teeth sensitive ; pressive pain at root of eye tooth ; drawing stitches in forehead ; drawing pain in throat ; raw feeling in fauces ;
stitches in hypochondria ; violent cutting in lower abdomen ; inguinal pressure ; hernia ; protruding hemorrhoids ; pain in kidneys ; sticking in lung on deep inspiration ; elbow, numbness ; pain in forearm ; pain in fingers ; thumb,
itching ; thumb nail, suppuration ; bruised feeling in knee ; thigh, pain ; pain in leg ; burning in lower leg ; painful twitching in heel ; pain in middle finger.
Right : pain in temple ; pain over eye ; shooting pain in lachrymal duct ; thread pain over eye ; chilling or burning-twitching in region of eustachian tube ; pain in root of nose ; nostril, crawling ; cheek, warm spots ; pressure in back
teeth ; first upper teeth sensitive ; dryness of root of tongue ; pain in ear ; pain below shoulder ; stitches from shoulder blade to elbow ; pains in wrist ; pain in fingers ; hand, trembling ; pain in thigh ; pain in foot ; knee,
stitches ; pain in great toe ; pricking in arm.

Sensations

As if swollen and heavy on crown ; as if whole head was wrapped up in warm water ; as if eye was hanging by a string or torn ; as if teeth were too long ; as of a ball or lump in throat ; as if larynx would be torn when coughing ; as though food
had lodged behind sternum ; as of a large, aching lump on root of tongue ; mouth and tongue as if scalded.
Severe pains : in abdomen.
An intense pain : in cervical spine.
Neuralgic pains, like threads : in face, head, neck and elsewhere ; < evenings ; towards ear from deep within head.
Splitting pain : in larynx.
Cutting : in belly, like a thread ; in anus ; deep in pelvis ; in lower abdomen.
Stitches : as of needles in forehead ; in eyebrows ; in eyes ; in ears ; in upper jaw ; towards ear from forehead ; in rectum ; in left hypochondrium ; in lumbar region ; runs through arm ; in skin ; in left side ; in
loins ; in arms ; in r. knee.
Sticking : in left chest on inspiration.
Stinging : of eye.
Shooting : in left leg and right foot ; in right lachrymal duct.
Tearing jerks : in anus.
Tingling pain : behind left mastoid process.
Jerking : from throat to eustachian tube ; in molars.
Tearing : in anus.
Pecking : behind right ear.
Burning-stinging : in stump after amputation.
Drawing : into upper jaw ; in teeth ; in spermatic cords ; in head ; in occiput ; from left eye into cheeks ; in left side of throat.
Pressure : in head ; in teeth ; in epigastrium ; in stomach ; in region of liver ; in pelvis ; in left inguinal region ; in region of bladder ; left thigh ; on cardia.
Soreness : behind palate ; in limbs ; of throat.
Raw feeling : in fauces.
Smarting : of eyes ; of upper lids ; above palate.
Scalded : mouth and tongue.
Biting : of eyes ; in anus.
Gnawing : in orifice of eustachian tube ; eyelids ; nose ; mouth ; lips.
Burning : of eyes ; taste ; orifice of eustachian tube ; throat ; in edges of nose and lips ; in urethra ; in bladder ; on glans penis ; small of back ; left thigh ; skin.
Burning twitching : in region of right eustachian tube.
Paralytic pain : in knee joint.
Colicky pains : in region of navel.
Painful twitching : on inner left heel.
Tired feeling : in limbs.
Bruised feeling : in knee ; of thigh.
Aching : on root of tongue : roof of mouth ; eustachian orifice ; through body ; in joints, in bones ; in forehead and head ; in temples ; in cervical spine ; over right eye ; in larynx.
Undefined pain : behind ears deep in head ; under tongue ; in forehead ; in throat ; below sternum ; in hepatic region ; in abdomen ; over middle of groin ; violent, in hypogastrium ; inguinal ring ; uterine region ; small of
back ; left thigh ; right wrist ; above knees ; over right eye to root of nose ; in renal region ; region of kidneys ; in bladder and prostate gland ; in chest ; in right shoulder blade ; in right elbow joint ; in arms ; in left
radius ; in fingers ; in ankle joints ; in great toe.
Fulness : in head ; behind palate.
Heaviness : in head ; in occiput.
Throbbing : in larynx.
Empty : stomach feels.
Tension : in upper part of chest.
Tightness : at root of nose.
Constrictive : as if head was bound up ; at root of nose ; pain in throat.
Contraction : in spleen ; at anus.
Tickling : in larynx ; in epiglottis.
Itching : of eyes ; in supraorbital region ; at anus ; in right nostril ; of thumb.
Electric shock : through head.
Numbness : in bones of skull ; in posterior wall of pharynx ; in left elbow.
Lame sensation : in all joints of arms ; in knee.
Crawls : in right nostril ; along back ; in anus.
Coldness : behind palate ; in back ; in pharynx.
Chilling : orifice of eustachian tube.
Warmth : of urethra ; in bladder.
Glowing : on thighs.
Heat : without thirst ; in head ; with coryza ; in pharynx and œsophagus ; in flashes in abdomen ; in left eyebrow.
Dryness : in mouth ; above palate ; in throat ; of anterior nares ; at root of tongue.

Tissues

All joints ache.
Nephritis.
Inflammations and increased secretion of mucous membranes. θ Coryza. θ Pertussis.
Gangrena senilis, woman, æt. 80 (externally as a salve).
Phlegmasia alba dolens, after instrumental delivery.
Dropsy.
Brittle hoofs and falling out of hair, in horses.

Touch. passive motion. injuries

Picking or sucking teeth : > toothache.
Touch : eyes sensitive to.
Rubbing : wants to rub eyes.
Pressure : < pain in swelling under left ear.
Must grasp larynx.
Traumatic neuritis, pains violent and continuous, wearing out the patient.
After hurts and lesions, stiffness in back and periodic attacks, trismus and pain in chest.
Hurts do not heal.

Skin

Pricking, like from pins or needles, in skin, especially on head, on forehead, in brows, on throat and on r. arm.
Redness and itching of skin.
Nettlerash on thighs.
Measles, with strongly marked catarrhal symptoms.
Scarlatina, with characteristic running from nose and urinary symptoms.

Stage of life, constitution

Children. θ Coryza. θ Pertussis. θ Pneumonia.
Woman, æt. 80 ; senile gangrene.
An old woman ; whitlow.

Relations

Antidoted by : Arnic . (toothache), Chamom . (bellyache), Nux vom . (coryza, recurring yearly in August ; unpleasant sensations caused by handling peaches and
some blossoming trees and plants ; hay fever), Veratr . (colic with despondency), Thuya (offensive breath and diarrhœa after eating onions).
Roasted coffee will remove onion breath.
Compatible : before Calc. ostr . and Silic . in polypus.
Incompatible : All. sat., Aloes, Scilla .
Complementary : Phosphor., Pulsat., Sarsap., Thuya .
Compare : Acon., Chlorine, Ipec .

Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica

James Tyler Kent · Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica · homeoint.org / Séror HTML text (Kent d. 1916; public domain)

General features

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.

Coryza

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.

Psora

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.

Earache

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.

Eyes

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.

Colic

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.

Voice and larynx

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.

Traumatic neuritis

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.