Allium Cepa



Pain behind the ears deep within the head, from backward and inward to the ears; a sensation entirely new and peculiar to him (after one hour).

Stitches drawing from the left forehead into the ear.

Under the left ear a hard swelling the size of a hazel-nut, extending from over the angle of the lower jaw to the ear, from which pains go into the ear, especially on pressure.

A painful sensation from the throat to the ears (after five minutes).

Chilling, or burning twitching on the right side of the throat in the region of the Eustachian tube, then above it a kind of gnawing; neither painful (after one hour).

Pains in the throat drawing into the right ear.

The ears, the throat, especially about the root of the tongue, were decidedly affected (fifteen minutes after the second dose).

Stitches through the right ear the next morning. (Dropped into the ears, it removes the pains, as well as the roaring and ringing). (The heart of the onion is to be put into the ears for tearing in the ears). Ringing in the ears now and then; also soft, in both ears, as from sounds far distant (mostly in the right ear, from which he hears (fourth to seventh day).

Humming in the ears on lying down.

Roaring in the left ear, as heretofore only after a severe cold; afternoon of the first day.

Nose.

Pain form over the right eye into the root of the nose. (Mixed with vinegar and put into the nose, it spots the bleeding, which the simple smell of the onion also does). (For nose-bleed, put onions on the neck).At evening, walking in the street, increased dropping from the nose, quite unusual, from both nostrils, without the sensation of coryza (first day).

Copious watery discharge from the nose, and watering of eyes.

( Discharge of ichorous fluid from the nose in convalescing scarlet fever).

Crawling in the right nostril, as before sneezing; must frequently blow thin mucus out of the nose; one hour after one drop of the third (forenoon).

Frequent sneezing in the evening when he comes into a warm room (second day).

Sneezing.

Since collecting onions in the harvest, four years before, a brother and sister, each in the thirtieth year, experienced for the first time a coryza, recurring at the same time each year, and continuing two to three weeks; they would sneeze severely twenty to thirty times every morning, and were obliged to avoid peaches on account of their rough skin, as well as all flowering trees and plants (Nux vomica relieved very greatly, but still other medicines had to be administered).

The most violent sneezing, as if she would be torn to pieces, as soon as she steps out of bed.

In the evening, after drinking beer and eating herring, excessive thirst; heat and severe coryza, with much lachrymation, headache; acrid burning discharge from the nose, so that the upper lip became red and sensitive (first day).

Nasal discharge and headache, better in the open air, the first day; not so severe the next morning; at evening, worse in the room, distinctly relieved as soon as he goes into the open air, the second day; on awaking, very slight the third day; after repeating the dose, more severe.

Much irritation in the right nostril, soreness of the nose, sneezing, lachrymation, morning of the fourth and fifth days, with headache.

Some soreness of the nose yet (the eighth day).

Coryza, at times with stoppage, that she speaks “through the nose;” at times with profuse mucous discharge.

With coryza, trembling of the hands at evening.

Acrid discharge from the left nostril.

(After rapid alternations of cold and warm days, in November, 1852, a young lady complained that she had suffered for a few days from coryza; worse every evening.

Water ran profusely from the nose, she sneezed frequently, her head was confused, the lids and about the eyes were swollen, much lachrymation (not acrid, as in Euphrasia), frequent cough, tension in the upper part of the chest, loss of appetite.

She took Cepa in the evening, slept the whole night, was quite well the following day, and remained so ( Lippe).

(The nose is humid, with slight coryza, but with severe pain in the forehead, which this time was not relieved by lying, down, as is usually the case with her coryzas. In a woman, 50 years old; better in the evening).

Fluent coryza, dropping clear water (on the right side, as usual with him); had not only lasted twelve hours, as customary, but many days, in spite of cold bathing; it disappeared within a few hours after Cepa.

Face.

Expression of anxiety and despair with pain in the abdomen.Pain in the right upper jaw like a thread in a nerve, which goes from above downwards, from the median line to the side, deep with the bone, at evening, the first day.

The pain in the right upper jaw on lying down in the evening, extends on the morning of the second day, from the nose outward and downward.

Drawing stitches from the left forehead into the upper jaw.

Severe pains (like neuralgia), from the upper half of the right eye to the root of the nose.

Drawing pains in the left cheek, extending into the left eye (third day). (Paralysis of the left half of the face, which is also somewhat noticed in the limbs of the same side, together with altogether too copious secretion of urine).

Spots warmer than usual on the right cheek (after fifty minutes).

Heat, especially in the face, every time after eating onions; several sisters.

Heat of the face in the evening. (Facial erysipelas).

Parree produced a nettle-rash eruption on the face and on the body, also on many in the family).

Swelling of the cheeks with toothache.

The upper lip is red and sensitive from the acrid nasal discharge.

Mouth.

Pecking in the two hindermost back teeth (after three minutes).In the first upper teeth, right side, sensitive drawing from the root to the crown (after thirty minutes); later, the same feeling in the corresponding teeth on the left side (the first day).

Pressive toothache in the right upper and lower back teeth, with the inclination to bore the tongue into and suck them, which relieves, lasting an hour; after traveling against the northwest wind, the fifth day; again the sixth day, after going against the northwest wind. Slight pressure in the right back teeth on going into a warm room.

At breakfast (with warm cocoa), painful; relieved by cold water (the seventh day).

At breakfast, the back teeth pain from eating bread, so that only soft food can be eaten.

A pressive pain remains for some time afterward.

Toward noon, the pain disappears on the right side, and settles in the root of the left eye-tooth; the gum around the root is inflamed; the pain frequently ceases suddenly and commences in an instant in a right back tooth; in the eye-tooth it is pressive, growling; cold water, cold in general relieves (the eighth day).

The pressive toothache comes on after walking against the north wind, is relieved by poking and sucking with the tongue; is much aggravated on eating warm soup, and disappears after a swallow of cold water; always the same after repeated experiments.

Pressive pain the root of the left eye-tooth disturbs the sleep, with excessive heat in the cheeks; towards morning, remission and sweat; the cheeks feel swollen (ninth day).

During sleep, feeling as if the back teeth were too long, with some pain; disappears on rising; two nights.

Drawing stitches form the left forehead into the teeth.

Immediately after eating onions, raging pain attacks a broken tooth.

Arnica, high in water, relieved just as speedily.

The teeth are a smutty yellow in the morning, they remain so the whole day, in one who has very white and wound teeth; continues three to five days.

The tongue has a foul coat, especially in the morning, on the back part, the third day; slimy, the fifth day.

The tongue is furred the next morning.

Dryness at the root of the tongue, on the right side.

Mouth and tongue as if scalded.

Pains under the tongue; at the lower insertion of the frenum it is surrounded with a half circle of small sore elevations, the next morning and the whole day.

The mouth is not as coated in the morning (the second day).

Dryness in the mouth, without thirst.

It causes an offensive breath ( general experience).

(Onions remove the bad taste in the mouth). (Onions remove the offensive breath). (The juice is of service in putrid sore mouths). (Antiscorbutic).

It has a sweet and aromatic acrid taste.

Sweet and nauseous taste after taking it, and so also on the third day.

On awaking, nauseous taste, the third day and morning of the fifth.

A sickly-sweet taste, also again, after the thirtieth, though in a less degree.

Burning taste, more on the gums and upper part. (Loss of taste).

Throat.

The throat was decidedly affected, after fifteen minutes.A constrictive pain in the forepart of the throat, low down in the region of the os hyoides, after five or six minutes; low down posteriorly on the right side, after seven minutes.

Drawing pain in the left side of the throat, relieved by cold air (second day).

Some redness on the back part of the palate on the right side.

Pain in the throat extending to the ear.

In the throat and orifice of the Eustachian tube, chilling or burning twitching and gnawing, not painful.

TF Allen
Dr. Timothy Field Allen, M.D. ( 1837 - 1902)

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.