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Fluent
acrid coryza. Bland lachrymation. Neuralgia of amputed stump.
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COMMON NAME
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Onion
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FAMILY
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Liliaceae
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A/F
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| - | Exposure
to damp north western cold wind |
| - | Bad effects from getting wet |
| - | Eating spoiled fish, salads, cucumber |
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MODALITIES
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MIND
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Absent mindedness and confusion of mind, after wine or coffee in the
afternoon; with irritation of the brain.
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| - | Dreams of battles, fights, precipices or being let down into wells.
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| - | Dreams of being near water, of high waves; vexation, in convalescence.
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| - | Fear that she would become disturbed from pain in the supporting fingers.
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| - | Fear that pain will become intolerable.
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| - | Insanity, passive. Does not recognize familiar people, indifferent to them.
Foolish behaviour. |
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GUIDING INDICATIONS
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| - | LEFT
SIDED MEDICINE. Symptoms go from left to right.
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| - | DESIRE FOR RAW ONIONS (Cub).
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| - | PROFUSE WATERY AND ACRID NASAL DISCHARGE with PROFUSE BLAND LACHRYMATION
(reverse Euphrasia).
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| - | HAY FEVER- in August every year. Frequent VIOLENT SNEEZING < on rising
from bed, < handling peaches, < entering warm room. Inflates the lung,
raises himself on his toes, this gives a HEARTY sneeze.
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| - | Spring coryza after damp winds. Discharge burns like fire and excoriates
nose and upper lip.
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| - | Catarrhal dull headache, forehead, eyes and face < closing eyes < free
coryza or menses. Returns when flow disappears. (Lach, Zinc).
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| - | CATARRHAL LARYNGITIS - Severe cough seems to TEAR AND SPLIT THE LARYNX.
Compels patient to grasp the larynx.
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| - | Hoarseness, incessant, hacking, tickling cough in spring, cold air.
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| - | NEURALGIC pains like a LONG THREAD in face, head, neck, chest, following
amputation or injury to nerves.
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| - | TRAUMATIC CHRONIC NEURITIS. Neuralgia of stump after amputation with burning
and stinging pains.
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| - | Sore and raw spots on feet, especially the heel from FRICTION. EFFICACIOUS
WHEN FEET ARE RUBBED SORE.
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| - | Nasal polyps (Sang, Psor, Mar-v, Teucr).
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| - | Colic; from cold, by getting wet; overeating, cucumber, salads;
haemorrhoidal, of children. < sitting > moving about.
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| - | Phlebitis, puerperal, or after forceps delivery, or PANARITIA with red
streak up the arm, with pain driving patient to despair, of lying-in women.
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| - | Burning, biting in eyes, smarting as from smoke, but tears do not excoriate
as they flow down the cheek.
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| - | COPIOUS URINE with coryza.
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| - | Sensation of glowing heat in different parts of body. BURNING in nose,
mouth, throat, bladder, skin.
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| - | Breathing oppressed from pressure in middle of chest; < evening.
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| - | Good remedy for earache (Puls, Cham).
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| - | Food and drinks: desires onions; aversion to cucumbers. |
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KEYNOTES
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- Profuse watery and acrid nasal discharge with profuse bland lachrymation.
- Severe cough seems to split and tear the larynx, compels the patient to
grasp larynx.
- Shooting pains as fine as a thread following amputation or injury to
nerves or other surgical operations.
- Headache ceases during menses, returns when flow disappears.
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NUCLEUS OF REMEDY
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| - | Profuse
watery discharges.
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| - | Excoriating nasal discharge with bland lachrymation.
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CONFIRMATORY SYMPTOMS
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Profuse watery and acrid nasal discharge with profuse bland lachrymation. |
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CLINICAL
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- For
neuralgic pain after operation.
- Amputation, phantom pains (Am-m, Asaf, Hyper, Staph, Symph). Ulcers on
feet, esp. heel.
- Most commonly indicated in earaches of children (Puls, Cham).
- In a Phosphorus constitution, Allium cepa should be given for coryza and
laryngitis. (Phos, drives it in to the chest).
- A raw onion eaten just before going to bed is a popular remedy for
sleeplessness.
- Phlebitis after forceps delivery.
- Panaritia.
- Nasal polyps.
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REMEDY RELATIONSHIPS
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Complementary: Phos, Puls, Sars, Thuj
Follows Well: Calc, Sil
Inimical: All-s, Aloe, Squil
Compare: Acon, All-s, Aloe, Chlor, Conv, Ip, Lach, Lil-t, Squil
Similar: Acon, Chlor, Ip
Antidoted By: Arn, Cham, Nux-v, Thuj, Verat
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