Editor’s note: Allium cepa is prepared from the juice of red onion. It belongs to the family Amaryllidaceae and genus Allium.
It is commonly used homeopathic medicine for coryza, cold, hay fever and laryngeal cough. Allium cepa is also sometimes used for neuralgic pains. This homeopathy remedy is safe to take by age groups and has no reported side effects in homeopathic doses.
Introduction
Red Onion.
Generalities
Allium cepa affects the mucous membranes of NOSE, EYES, larynx and bowels, causing increased secretion. Burning and stitches; in the eyes, nose, mouth, throat, bladder, skin are marked.
Nasal secretion is acrid; secretion from eye is bland.
Neuralgic pains are shooting, as fine as a thread, following injuries to the nerves or amputation or other surgical operations. Traumatic chronic neuritis.
Symptoms go from left to right. Singer’s coryza. Neuroma. Senile gangrene. Sensation of glowing heat in different parts of the body.
Worse
Allium cepa is worse in WARM ROOM. Wet feet Singing. Damp weather. Spring. Evening. Eating spoiled fish; cucumber; salads.
Better
Cool open air. Bathing. Motion.
Mind
Fear that pain will become unbearable. Melancholy.
Head
Aching in forehead, extending to eyes and face better free coryza or menses; returns when flow ceases. Electric shock passes through head. Skull bones numb.
Eyes
Much burning, smarting; profuse bland lachrymation worse coughing, wants to rub them. Near objects seem distant, while yawning.
Ears
Aching extending to throat.
Nose
Allium cepa has FREQUENT, VIOLENT SNEEZING; CORYZA; with ACRID FLUENT discharge, with burning and smarting in the nose.
Nose drips. Sensitive to odours; of flowers and the skin of peaches. Acrid discharge, when singing.
Face
Paralysis; left side, also of limbs of the same side.
Throat
Rawness of the throat. Pain extending to the ear. Dripping from uvula. As of a lump in throat or one has swallowed a large lump.
Allium cepa Stomach
Craving for raw onions, which agree. Pain in the region of pylorus. Prickling perspiration on bald vertex worse after each meal. Voracious appetite with thirst. Nausea. Eructations.
Abdomen
Rumbling offensive flatus. Flatulent colic, worse sitting, motion. Glowing heat in rectum.
Urinary
Copious urine; with coryza. Strangury after wet feet. Dribbling of urine in old people.
Male
Pain in bladder and prostate gland after coition.
Females
Phlegmasia alba dolens; after instrumental delivery.
Allium cepa Respiratory organs
Hoarseness, incessant, hacking tickling cough, worse inspiring cold air; with a sensation as if larynx is split and torn; must grasp it; Cough is so troublesome that he wants to hold it back.
Larynx is painful when talking. Bronchitis in old people.
Extremities
Joints feel lame; Ulcers or skin is rubbed off by the shoes especially on the heels. Limbs, especially arms feel sore and tired. Sore feet from long walking.
Sleep
Yawning; in deep sleep, or with headache and drowsiness, and cramp in stomach.
Skin
Red streaks running up; felon; of lying-in women.
Related
Euphrasia; Gelsemium; Kali-iod.
Allium cepa is Complementary to
Phosphorus; Pulsatilla; Theridion