• Allium Cepa is specially adapted to phlegmatic patients.

• The patient has great sensitiveness to cold air, especially drafts.

• The patient has catarrhal affections, with acrid, watery discharge from the eyes and nose.

• The patient's symptoms often begin on the left side and then move to the right.

• The patient has general aggravation from warmth, especially in a warm room.

• The patient's symptoms often appear or are aggravated when menstrual flow disappears.

• The patient has colds in damp, cold weather.

• The patient has neuralgic pains, like a fine thread, following amputations or injuries to nerves.

• The patient has traumatic chronic neuritis.

• The patient has Burning in nose, mouth, throat, bladder, and skin.

• The patient has a sensation of glowing heat on different parts of the body.

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• The patient is irritable and easily angered.

• The patient is anxious and restless, especially during the evening.

• The patient has fear of pain.

• The patient is forgetful and has difficulty concentrating.

• The patient is sad and depressed, especially during catarrhal affections.

• The patient has a desire to be alone.

• The patient has an aversion to mental work.

• The patient has restlessness with catarrhal symptoms.

• The patient is easily offended.

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• Covers more symptoms of common cold than any other remedy.

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• The patient has a headache, often frontal or supraorbital, better in open air.

• The patient's headache is aggravated by warmth and in a warm room.

• The patient has neuralgic pains in the head, sharp and shooting.

• The patient has a sensation as if a band were tightly bound around the head.

• The patient has a headache accompanied by profuse, watery nasal discharge.

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• Dulness of the head.

• Dull headache, with coryza, < 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.

• Neuralgic pains like a long thread in head; < evening; towards ear from deep within head.

• The patient has acrid, burning lachrymation; tears are bland, while nasal discharge is acrid.

• The patient has photophobia, worse in the morning.

• The patient has redness and swelling of the eyelids.

• The patient has a sensation as if sand were in the eyes.

• The patient has burning in the eyes.

• The patient has profuse bland lachrymation.

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• Flow of (mild) tears.

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• The patient has stinging pains in the ears.

• The patient is sensitive to noise.

• The patient has catarrhal deafness.

• The patient has pulsating pain in the ears.

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• Earache.

• Discharge of pus from the ear.

• Hardness of hearing.

• The patient has profuse, watery, acrid nasal discharge that excoriates the upper lip and nostrils.

• The patient has frequent sneezing, especially in the morning.

• The patient has a stuffed-up sensation at the root of the nose.

• The patient has hay fever with intense itching and burning of the nose and eyes.

• The patient has nasal polyps.

• The patient has coryza with burning and smarting in the nose.

• The patient has a raw, burning sensation in the throat, relieved by cold drinks.

• The patient has hoarseness, worse in the morning and evening.

• The patient has a cough, caused by tickling in the larynx.

• The patient has a sensation of a lump in the throat.

• The patient has a sore throat, with a sensation as if something were sticking in it.

• The patient has catarrhal laryngitis, with raw, burning sensation in the larynx.

• The patient has a spasmodic cough, worse in a warm room and better in open air.

• The patient has asthma, with a sensation of constriction in the chest.

• The patient has croup, with a harsh, barking cough.

• The patient has bronchitis, with profuse, watery expectoration.

• The patient's cough is worse on entering a warm room.

• The patient has a tickling cough with a bursting headache.

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• 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.

• The patient has palpitations, especially at night.

• The patient has oppression of the chest, with difficulty breathing.

• The patient has thirst for cold drinks.

• The patient has eructations, tasting like onions.

• The patient has nausea and vomiting.

• The patient has a craving for raw onions, even though they aggravate.

• The patient has colicky pains in the abdomen, better by bending double.

• The patient has rumbling and gurgling in the abdomen.

• The patient has flatulence, with offensive odor.

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• 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 diarrhea.

• Left inguinal ring affected.

• The patient has diarrhea, with offensive odor and burning in the anus.

• The patient has constipation, with hard, dry stools.

• The patient has hemorrhoids, with burning and stinging pains.

• The patient has stools excoriating.

• The patient has frequent urging to urinate, with burning sensation.

• The patient has involuntary urination, especially at night.

• The patient has red, sandy sediment in the urine.

• The patient has increased sexual desire.

• The patient has neuralgic pain in the spermatic cord.

• The patient has leucorrhea, acrid and excoriating.

• The patient has menses suppressed or irregular.

• The patient has leucorrhea profuse and watery.

• The patient has neuralgic pains, following the course of nerves.

• The patient has burning pains in the feet and hands.

• The patient has sciatica, worse from warmth and better from cold.

• The patient has weakness and trembling of the limbs.

• The patient's pains are shooting and tearing.

• The patient's pain is worse at night.

• The patient has burning skin eruptions.

• The patient has itching skin.

• The patient's symptoms are worse after sleep.

• The patient has restless sleep.

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• Worse (<)

• Warm room.

• Returning to warm room after being in open air.

• Afternoon and evening.

• When lying down.

• Damp cold wind and weather.

• Evening.

• In a room.

• Spring colds.

• Hay fever of August.

• Epidemics of spasmodic cough in autumn.

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• Better (>)

• Open air.

• Cold air.

• Cold washing.

• Picking or sucking teeth.

• Cold water.

• Motion.

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• Warm room.

• Evening.

• Damp, cold weather.

• Suppression of discharges.

• Touch.

• After sleep.

• Onions.

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• Open air.

• Cold air.

• Motion.

• Cold applications.

• Bending backward.

• Complementary: Phosphorus; Thuja; Pulsatilla.

• Antidotes: Arnica montana; Chamomilla; Veratrum album.

• Compare: Arsenicum album (burning pains, anxiety); Euphrasia (acrid lachrymation, bland nasal discharge); Sabadilla (hay fever, violent sneezing); Aconitum (early stages of colds).

• Cantharis (burning pains).

• Common Name: Common Red Onion

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• Family: Liliaceae

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• Preparation: Tincture of the onion or whole fresh plant (July-August).

• Anus, fissure of

• Ascites

• Catarrh

• Cold

• Coryza

• Cough

• Diarrhea

• Facial paralysis

• Feet, easily galled

• Hay-fever

• Hernia

• Influenza

• Laryngitis

• Panaritium

• Pneumonia

• Trauma

• Whitlow

• Whooping-cough

• Yellow fever

• are a keynote: eyelids, nose, mouth, throat, bladder, skin.

• Inflammation and increased secretion of mucous membranes.

• Thread-like pains in various parts.

• Primarily a left-sided remedy; symptoms often go from left to right.

• Suited to traumatic neuritis.

• Hurts do not heal easily.

• Feet easily galled by walking.

• Desire for raw onions.

• Symptoms often worse in a warm room and better in open air.

• Catarrhal affections with profuse, watery discharges.

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• Very melancholy.

• Fears pains will become unbearable.

• Often very anxious, with catarrh.

• Dulness of intellect during catarrh.

• Irritable and impatient.

• Mental confusion.

• Forgetfulness.

• ; 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.

• Eyes sensitive to touch.

• Photophobia.

• 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.

• Thread-like pains in face.

• Left-side facial paralysis.

• 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.

• Cough caused by tickling in larynx; constant inclination to hack to relieve it.

• Violent catarrhal laryngitis; hoarse cough with feeling as if it would split and tear the larynx, causing watering of eyes.

• Much sneezing; he inflates the lungs, raises himself on his toes, then gives a hearty sneeze.

• Whooping cough.

• Canine hunger.

• Appetite, increased or diminished.

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• 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.

• Diarrhea after midnight and in the morning.

• Flatus very offensive.

• Hemorrhoids, tearing, jerking pains in anus.

• Stitches in the rectum.

• Rhagades at the anus.

• Itching at the anus (worms).

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• 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.

• Intense pain in nape of neck.

• Chilly crawls run down the back, most at night, with frequent urination, followed by heat and thirst.

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• 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.

• Whitlow.

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• 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.

• Feet easily galled by walking.

• 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.

• Effects of exposure to damp cold winds and weather; wet feet; eating spoiled fish; injuries; surgical operations (fine shooting pains after).

• Al. sat., Alo., Conval., Lil. tig, Scilla (botan.); Aco., Chlorum, Ipec.; Lach. (left to right).

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• Arn. (toothache); Cham. (abdominal pains); Nux v. (coryza recurring in August); Verat. (colic, with despondency); Thuja (offensive breath and diarrhea after eating onions). Roasted coffee will remove onion breath.

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• Calc. c. and Silic. in polypus.

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• All. sat., Alo., Scilla.

• Phos., Puls., Sars., Thuj.