Origin Plant · Liliaceae · Simple
ClarkePreparation Tincture of the onion; or of whole fresh plant gathered from July to August.
Sources 13 entries across 12 books: Boericke, Kent, Clarke, Allen, Nash …
Dose Boericke
3X
Third potency
Reason for useT. F. Allen
Allium cepa, Willd. Nat. order , Liliaceae. Common names , Onion; (Germ.) Zwiebel; (Fr.) Oignon. Preparation , Tincture from the red onion. Authorities. 1 , C. Hering, θ ; 2 , C. Hering, from others, "ab," "gg," etc.; 3 , J. Jeanes; 4 , W. Wesselhoeft, θ ; 5 , Geist, 3d; 6 , J. N. Eckel, θ ; 7 , Zumbrock, θ ; 8 , Alleborn, θ ; ( 9 , Toxicological;) ( 10 , Old Authors;) 11 , Lingen; 12 , Williamson; 13 , Pereira; 14 , Neidhard; 15 , Raue; 16 , Z. B.; 17 , Dubbs. (Authorities from Hering's Arznei Prüfungen.)
By regionT. F. Allen
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, somnolency, vertigo, epilepsy, and indeed insanity, [10] . …
Head *Confusion of the head , [4] ; with coryza , [°] . …
Eyes [70.] (Blue-eyed, [°] , [10] .) (The eyes are no longer watery and dim; the sixth day. …
Stomach (Loss of appetite with coryza, [°] -Lippe.) Onions promote an appetite, but if one eats too many they cause a revulsion of the stomach, [10] . …
Books*
Antidoted by Arnica Montana, Calcarea Carbonica, Cepa +5
Complementary Phosphorus, Pulsatilla Pratensis, Thuja Occidentalis +1
Follows well —
Compare Aconitum Napellus, Euphorbium Officinarum, Ipecacuanha +18
* Number of books that state the relation, where more than one. Historical text from the classical materia medica (1828–1950). Not medical advice, and not a claim that any remedy works.
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