Remedy

Allium cepa

Red onion

15 health issues Boericke 1927

Main symptoms

  • A picture of runny nose (cold), with acrid nasal discharge and laryngeal symptoms, eye secretion bland; singers' cold, worse in warm room and toward evening; better in open air is presented by this remedy.
  • Specially adapted to phlegmatic patients; colds in damp cold weather.
  • Neuralgic pains, like a fine thread, following amputations or injuries to nerves.
  • Traumatic chronic neuritis.
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  • Burning in nose, mouth, throat, bladder and skin.
  • Sensation of glowing heat on different parts of the body.

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What makes it better or worse

Worse

In the eveningIn warm room

Better

In open airIn cold room

Symptoms by body part

Head

With mucus headache, mostly in forehead; worse in warm room towards evening. Thread-like pains in face. Headache ceases during menses; returns when flow disappears.

Eyes

Red. Much burning and smarting watering eyes. Sensitive to light. Eyes suffused and watery; profuse, bland watering eyes, better in open air. Burning in eyelids.

Ears

Earache, shooting in eustachian tube.

Nose

Sneezing, especially when entering a warm room. Copious, watery and extremely acrid discharge. Feeling of a lump at root of nose. Hay-fever. Fluent runny nose (cold) with headache, cough, and hoarseness. Polypus.

Stomach

Extreme hunger. Pain in pyloric region. Thirst. Belching. Nausea.

Abdomen

Rumbling, offensive flatus. Pains in left hypogastrium. Colic sitting, moving about.

Rectum

Diarrhoea with very offensive flatus. Stitches in rectum; itching and rhagades in anus. Glowing heat in rectum.

Urinary

Sensation of weakness in bladder and urethra. Increased secretion of urine with runny nose (cold). Urine red with much pressure and burning in urethra.

Respiratory

Hoarseness. Hacking cough on inspiring cold air. Tickling in larynx. Sensation as if larynx is split or torn. Oppressed breathing from pressure in middle of chest. Constricted feeling in region of epiglottis. Pain extending to ear.

Extremities

Lame joints. Ulcers on heel. Painful affections of fingers about nails. Neuralgia of stump. Bad effects from getting feet wet. Limbs, especially arms, feel sore and tired.

Sleep

Yawning with headache and drowsiness. Gaping in deep sleep. Dreams. Wakes at 2 a.m.

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