Allium Cepa

Head

Confusion and pain of the head with coryza. Headache better in open air, gets worse on returning to a warm room. Pain in the head with catarrh. Pain in the temples aggravated by winking. Pain in occiput and down the neck.

Eyes

Very much lachrymation and coryza, often with biting and smarting, worse on left side and in left eye. Swelling of the lids and around the eye with coryza.

Nose

Copious watery discharge from the nose with lachrymation. Ichorous discharge from the nose in scarlet fever. Frequent and violent sneezing, particularly on entering a warm room. Acrid and burning discharge from the nose, inflaming the upper lip. With these catarrhal affections there is usually a sense of oppression in middle and upper part of the chest. Colds after damp north-easterly winds. A sort of hay-fever every August, morning coryza, violent sneezing, sensitive to the odor of flowers and skin of peaches. Nasal polypi.

Face

Paralysis of left half of face, also in limbs of the same side, copious flow of urine.

Throat

Hawking of lumpy mucus from posterior nares, and from the fauces and throat; this is sometimes tough and difficult to detach. Pain in the throat as if one had swallowed too large a substance, the pain extends into the right ear. Bad odor from the mouth and throat. Sensation of a lump in throat.

Stomach

Thirst with heat, and coryza. Appetite, increased or diminished. Strong craving for raw onions. Cannot take any other nourishment. After each meal prickling perspiration on the vertex. Nausea, coming from stomach up the throat into the fauces. Belching with rumbling in and puffing of the abdomen. Weak, empty feeling in stomach. Sour eructation.

Abdomen

Pains in hepatic region, spreading into the abdomen. Violent pains in left hypogastrium, with urging to urinate, urine scalding. Strangulated hernia has been known to follow the eating abundantly of cooked onions. Various colicky pains. Abdomen distended, rumbling, urging and finally diarrhoea.

Stool

Flatus very offensive, diarrhoea towards morning. Difficult stool, haemorrhoids; tearing, jerking pains in anus: fissures.

Urine

Pressure and very sensitive over the bladder, frequent urinating, with burning, urine very red. Strangury after wet feet, abdomen cold. Dribbling or spouting of urine in old people.

Chest

Violent catarrhal laryngitis, hoarse cough seems to split and tear the larynx; causes watering of the eyes. Oppressed feeling in middle of chest, with sensation of weakness. Constant inclination to hack, in order to relieve the tickling in larynx. Acute bronchitis going from left to right. Cough with fulness of the head, heat, copious fluent coryza, and profuse lachrymation; spasmodic, croupy with the characteristic catarrhal symptoms. Stitching and burning pains here and there about the chest. Takes a severe cold, frequent sneezing, lachrymation, pain in head, acrid discharge from nose, hacking cough on inspiring cold air. Inflates the lungs, raises up, gives a hearty sneeze.

Neck and Back.-- Intense pain in nape of neck. Chilly crawls run down the back, most at night, with frequent urinations, followed by heat and thirst.

Extremities

Upper : Much pain under right shoulder-blade. Painful affections of fingers about the nail, red streaks running up the arm. In all the limbs, especially both arms, a very sore, tired feeling. Lower : Sore, raw spots on feet from friction. Pain on most external soft part of right big toe and left middle finger.

Sleep

Wakes at 2 o'clock, and sleeps no more till morning; restless sleep with frightful dreams.

Skin

Pricking in the skin like needles, redness and itching nettle-rash, measles, scarlatina, when the complaints are characterized by the characteristic catarrhal symptoms. Panaritia of lying--in females, red streaks running up the arm, very painful.

Generalities

Neuralgia from old injuries, pains. Gangrene senile. Phlegmatia alba dolens. After hurts and lesions, violent and wearing. Weak and tired; has to lie down. Neuralgic pains like a long thread. Bad effects from getting wet, Trismus after injuries. Worse in the evening.