Common names: Onion; (Germ). Zwiebelt; (Fr). Oignon.
Introduction
Allium cepa, Willd.Natural order: Liliaceae.
Preparation: Tincture from the red onion.
Mind.
To Mandragora we may join the excessive use of garlic, onions, and leeks, because all physicians consider them very injurious, as occasioning deeply corrupted, malignant humidity, which inflame the blood, injure the eyes, the head, the brain, and stomach, predisposing to lethargy, sopor, somnolence, vertigo, epilepsy, and indeed insanity.Onions go to the head with their acridity, and injure the brain, and if one eats too much of them they can indeed cause insanity and madness.
If many are eaten raw, they make a person foolish by reason of their aromas, which mount into the head.
If too many are eaten, the onion-juice takes away the senses, by reason of its great heat and acridity, and greatly injures the stomach.
I find something injurious in the onion, and consider the opinion of Spigelius well founded, that a too free and continued use of it as food causes disturbances of the brain.
Inexpressible anxiety, turning himself hither and thither full of the despair, with severe colic.
Pains with sore fingers, make him frantic.
Very melancholy, with catarrh.
In the afternoon, after wine and coffee, he was completely confused and absent-minded by much business, forgot and twisted everything in the utmost confusion (the fourth day).
He makes mistakes in spelling a foreign language.
Apathetic, mornings.
Working people take in the morning onions with bread and salt for the bad air, as they do treacle, but idlers are made foolish, melancholy, and sleepy by its use, Cardanus affirms that even the offspring of those who eat onions freely are disposed to insanity.
Head.
Confusion of the head; with coryza.Vertigo, etc.; (on rising up).
Head confused, especially in the forehead, after renewed eructations.
Confusion of the head, after it had risen up from the stomach into the throat.
Pain in both sides of the occiput, and a dull confusion from the crown backward and downward in the regions “conscientiousness” and “love of approbation;” continued the whole forenoon; went away in the evening after drinking beer.
Confusion in the occiput, first on both sides and towards the upper part, pressing down sideways, then behind the ears around the whole occiput (after one hour).
Pressure and confusion in the upper part of the occiput in the regions “conscientiousness,” “love of approbation,” and “caution,” the whole evening; better in the open air, worse on returning to the warm room (first day).
Headache.
But those in whom they produce headache should avoid them.
Make a decoction of leeks in water and bathe the head in it, for headache.
Raw, they are very injurious to the head and to the eyes.
They frequently excite headache in inflammatory constitutions.
They afflict the head and eyes, hence they should be avoided by those who study, and have a humid, weak head sight, and hearing.
If eaten too much, they cause headache.
Headache, better in the open air.
Headache, worse on return to the warm room, etc.
Headache in the room, evenings, with coryza.
Headache, with coryza.
Headache and coryza, worse evenings (fourth day).
Severe headache, with slight coryza.
Headache and gastric troubles.
Headache and yawning.
The whole head became hot (after cutting onions).
Heat of the head.
Heat and heaviness of the head, lasting from the forenoon till near evening; after cutting onions.
The head is full and heavy.
Fullness and heaviness in the head, as it were bound up, with flickering of the eyes.
Like electric shocks through the head.
Aching of the head.
Dulness in the head, with some coryza and lachrymation, in the evening on cutting onions.
Dull, oppressive pain in the head.
Heaviness in the head.
Oppressive headache over the eyes, frequently going through the head like an electric shock (the first day).
Pain in the forehead, with catarrh.
Stitches, as of needles, in the forehead.
Stitches over the whole left forehead, externally; they draw into the ear, the upper jaw, and the teeth of the same side (immediately after taking it); evenings.
Pains deep in the head over the left brow (after one hour).
Headache the next morning, especially in both temples.
Pains in; both temples, most severe in the right, aggravated by winking, afterward the pain extends over the forehead, worse on the left side.
As if swollen and heavy on the crown.
Pain left of the crown (after seventy minutes).
Headache, from both sides of the head, downward and inward toward the middle (after ten minutes).
Tingling pain behind the left mastoid process.
Headache in the region of the organ of “concentration, “.
Pains deep in the head, sticking to the ear.
Headache, first in the occiput, then in the forepart on the right side over the eye.
Headache on both sides of the occiput, afterwards in only two large round places in the upper posterior part of the head, in the region “love of approbation;” still later, a general and humming sensation of the part being asleep.
The pressure in the upper part of the occiput in the evening, became about eleven o’clock a sensation of being asleep; on touching it, he first noticed it was not in the scalp, but as if in the bone.
With pressive headache is the sensation, as if the whole head externally were wrapped up in warm water.
For alopecia, Hippocrates directed the spots;to be rubbed with onion.
(The hair is made to grow by anointing the bald spots with onions). (It promotes the growth of hair in baldness better than Alcyonium). It may be used externally for making the hair grow, anointing the shaven head with it; the juice;also makes the hair grow). (For promoting the growth of the hair, the head is washed at evening with French brandy which has stood over freshly cut onions). (Bald spots are to be rubbed with a cut onion till they are red, to make the hair grow).
Eyes.
(Blue-eyed). (The eyes are no longer watery and dim; the sixth day; they have their natural lustre; the seventh day).It causes biting in the eyes, irritates to tears (an undoubted action of onion).
At evening, on cutting up onions, there was a continual dropping from the eyes, then they become painful.
Pungent smell, biting, and weeping of the eyes, and sneezing, after taking it.
Causes lachrymation.
(The juice represses the excessive lachrymation).
The eyes water after a few hours (first day).
The left eye pains the next morning; fine stitches in it; after cutting the onions in the evening.
The lachrymation of the left eye, with coryza, was much greater, the eye was much redder, and more sensitive to the light than the right (first day).
Excessive lachrymation of the left eye, with redness of the eyeball, after frequent sneezing (third day).
The lachrymation is for the most part in the evening, in the warm room; the left eye weeps more, and also is more sensitive to the light.
Watering of the eyes and nose.
Lachrymation, with coryza.
Lachrymation (not excoriating), with coryza.
Burning in the outside of the right upper lid (after three minutes).
Burning in the lids.
As if there were smoke in the eyes under the upper lids, mostly in the night (the first day).
Redness of the lids, with catarrh.
After drinking coffee, an irritation on the left upper lid, which necessitates frequent rubbing; worse in the warm room, disappearing in the open air (the first day, and morning of the second).
Irritation of the left upper lid reappears very strikingly after the thirtieth.
Itching in the supraorbital region, more on the left side (after one hour).
Burning itching in the brows, the supraorbital region, and the upper lids; evening of the first day.
Heat in the left eyebrow.
Needle-stitches in the brows.
Pressive pain over the right eye (after twenty minutes).
Feeling of heaviness over both eyes and in the forehead; after a few minutes, lasting two hours. Pains in the eyes as if they would be torn out, as if the eye hung loose posteriorly, on a string, and could be bored into with the fingers and torn out.
Drawing pains in the left cheek, going into the interior of the left eye; better in the cold air (the second day).
Pain over the right eye to the root of the nose.
(Pain from the cheeks into the left eye). (Commencing ecchymoses in the eyes). (Ulcers, spots in the eyes). (Irritant affections of the eyes, used with ashes). (A stye is to be rubbed with a piece of raw onion). ( Swelling of the lids and around the eye, with coryza).
On becoming sleepy while reading, the letters appear to him very small (soon after the second dose).
Flickering and blinding before the eyes; everything dances hither and thither; therewith fullness and heaviness in the head, as if bound up; the whole head becomes hot, and feels swollen and heavy on the vertex, together with so much general weakness that she must lie down; after cutting onions.
A bright dazzling in the distance, and dimness near by.
The eyes are sensitive to the light, particularly the left.
Cloudy sight by candlelight.
Ears.
Pecking behind the right ear (after one minute).Pains moving from deep within the head to the ears, like thick threads, about a finger in length, remaining in particular spots, from a pea to a hazel-nut in size (after fifty minutes).
Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.