Generalities
Red sea onion affects the serous and mucous membranes of respiratory and digestive tract and acts also on kidneys, heart, and spleen. It is a slow acting medicine and is useful for those conditions which require several days to reach their maximum. Exudations and profuse secretions. Dropsy; with profuse urine. Gurglings. Cardio-urinary effects. Action is just like Digitalis; follows Digitalis when it fails to relieve dropsical conditions.
Worse
Early morning. Motion. Uncovering. Inspiration. Old people. Coughing.
Better
Rest. Sitting up. Expectoration even a small quantity.
Mind
Angry about trifles. Aversion to mental and bodily labour.
Eyes
Left eye looks much smaller than right. Child rubs eyes and face much, as if to relieve itching; in brain affectations; measles. As if swimming in cold water. Tears with cough. Staring look, eyes wide open.
Nose
Violent sneezing, with fluent acrid coryza. Sneezing during cough. Copious running worse in morning.
Face
Child rubs the face, with fist during cough. Lips; twitch, covered with yellow crusts; black cracked.
Mouth
Black spots on teeth. Taste; sweet; of food, esp. soup and meat; bitter to bread. Thirst for cold drinks. Drinks in sips during dyspnoea.
Stomach
Pressure as from a stone. Pains better lying on left side.
Abdomen
Rumbling and gurgling in paroxysms above pubic region, better eating. Aching in hypochondria. Painful diseases of the spleen. Stools dark, brown, frothy, very offensive. Ascites, with scanty urine.
Urinary
Frequent or sudden urging to urinate; passes much urine. Involuntary urination when coughing. Bloody urine. Faeces escape when urinating.
Male
Erotic pollutions.
Respiratory
COUGH; stubborn, dry, rattling, disturbs sleep; with sneezing, coryza; lachrymation; spurting of urine; or stools; or heat; ends in gagging; worse cold drinks; inspiration. Child rubs face and eyes, during cough. Cough worse morning and evening. Cough dry, always followed by the need to clear the nose. Expectoration; easy, heavy; difficult; in small round balls; of sweetish taste; white or reddish; offensive. Dyspnoea; with sticking pain in chest and cramps in abdominal muscles. In asthma drinks in sips; and stitches in chest (left). Cough; with enlarged spleen or with pain in the region. Loose morning cough is more severe than dry evening cough. Pleurisy. Broncho- pneumonia.
Heart
Cardiac stimulant. Pulse small and slow; slightly hard.
Neck and Back
Bubbling beneath scapula.
Extremities
Nails become brittle and split. Feet get sore from standing. Tender feet of shop girls. Hands and feet cold, body hot.
Fever
Heat with aversion to uncover. Sweat absent.
Skin
Small red spots all over the body with pricking pain.
Related
Ars; Bar-c; Nux-v; Rhus-t; Silicea
Complementary
Ant-c.
He was convinced about Homoeopathy while going through Sir William Osler's writings on 'History of Medicine' so switched over to an entirely Homoeopathic Practice in 1932. He also started working on Homoeopathic literature along with his Practice.
He has contributed immensely to homoeopathic literature. He was an ardent follower of Dr Boger. His Repertory is based on Boger's ''A Synoptic key to Materia Medica'.