Introduction Allium Cepa

Allium Cepa (All-c.)
Common Names: onion, red onion.

General Information Of Allium Cepa

Allium Cepa (All-c.) is a key remedy for either infectious or allergic coryza (catarrhal inflammation of the mucous membranes of the nose). The person may be sleepy, find it difficult to concentrate, or feel foggy with the coryza. Symptoms are worse in the evening and in warm rooms, and are improved by open air. All-c also relieves phantom pains following amputation, especially when they feel thread-like or neuralgic. Those needing Allium cepa may especially like onions, something of interest with All-c being the potentised version of onion.
AllergiesHay fever.
Watery discharge from the nose and eyes.
Acrid, burning, excoriating discharge from nose but bland, watery discharge from eyes.
Symptoms worse in evening and warm rooms; better for open air.
Sleepiness and difficult concentration with allergies.
Colds that move downwards to the larynx or chest. Note: Inappropriate or overuse of Allium cepa can cause head colds to go to the chest. (If there has been no improvement in symptoms, do not use this remedy beyond 4 doses.)
Sensation of rawness in nose.
Mental-Emotional SymptomsDull thinking and sleepiness.
Difficult concentration.
Eye ProblemsBland, watery discharge from eyes during cold or hay fever.
Throat ProblemsPain in larynx on coughing.
Grasps throat on coughing.
Heel and Limb ProblemsFriction Injuries to heels from rubbing shoes.
Blisters on heels.
Phantom pains or neuralgia in amputation stumps.
HeadachesWorse in warm rooms and better in open air.
Worse when eyes closed.
For Pets Hay fever symptoms.
Repeated sneezing.
Cat flu with streaming eyes and nose

Important of Allium cepa

While above self-limiting or acute complaints are suitable for home treatment also contact your healthcare provider during emergency situations or if symptoms worsen or fail to improve. Chronic or persistent complaints, which may or may not be mentioned above, require a different treatment and dosage protocol so are best managed by a qualified homeopath for good results.

Dosage Instructions (suitable for babies to adults) of Allium cepa

For the home treatment of acute and self-limiting complaints take one pill or five drops of the remedy every 1 minute to 4 hours (1 minute for intense or emergency symptoms (plus seek emergency help), 4 hours for milder ones). Once an improvement is noticed, stop dosing and repeat the remedy only if symptoms return. If there is no improvement at all by three doses, choose a different remedy or seek professional guidance.

Note: Chronic symptoms or complaints require a course of professional treatment by a qualified homeopath to manage the changes in potencies and remedies that may be required.

Anyone who has cut up raw onions knows what their effect upon the eyes and nose is -irritation, which causes violent sneezing and lachrymation. Then, if the homeopathic law of cure is true, it ought to be a good remedy for coryza, and so it is; but like every other remedy, it cures its own peculiar and characteristic form of the disease.

It has also profuse lachrymation, with burning, biting and smarting of the eyes, but the discharge is bland; that is, it does not make the eyes sore afterwards.

There may or may not be headache; if there is it is, like the coryza, worse in warm room or evening and better in open air.

I have found it particularly useful in children when the profuse coryza or cold extended downward to the bronchi, with a like profuse secretion in the bronchial tubes, with much coughing and rattling of mucus.

Before Cepa came into homeopathic use we used to give Euphrasia when there was profuse coryza and lachrymation.

The difference between the two remedies is, that with Cepa the nasal discharge is acrid and the lachrymal bland, while exactly the reverse is true of Euphrasia.

The action of the remedy seems to be primarily in the nose with the one and in the eyes with the other, and thus we must learn to differentiate between all remedies.

DRUG PICTURE OF ALLIUM CEPA (Red Onion)

A picture of coryza, 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. Burning in nose, mouth, throat, bladder and skin. Sensation of glowing heat on different parts of the body.

Head.–Catarrhal 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 lachrymation. Sensitive to light. Eyes suffused and watery; profuse, bland lachrymation, 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 (Sabad; Sil; Psor). Fluent coryza with headache, cough, and hoarseness. Polypus.

Stomach.–Canine hunger. Pain in pyloric region. Thirst. Belching. Nausea.

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

Rectum.–Diarrhśa 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 coryza. 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 am.

Modalities.–Worse, in the evening, in warm room. Better, in open air, and in cold room.

Relationship.–Compare: Gels; Euph; Kali hyd; Aconite; Ipecac.

Complementary: Phosphor; Thuja; Puls.

Antidotes: Arn; Cham; Verat.

Dose.-

Third potency.

ALLIUM CEPA 200C 30ml