Keywords

Made from red onion.

• Affinity for mucus membranes in nose, eyes, larynx and bowels; increased secretions
• Runny eyes and nose
• Acrid, copious nasal discharge
• < warm room, wet feet
• > fresh air

Picturing the stinging sensations and discharge from eyes and nose when cutting onions, gives strong indications for what the homoeopathically potentised red onion can help heal!

Materia Medica

The healing qualities of onions have been known in folk medicine and herbalists for centuries. It has been used externally for acne, chilblains and arthritis; and internally as blood purifier and to expel worms from the bowels.

The juices from the red onion has been sniffed, dripped in the ears or applied to coarse skin. Wine was brewed from onions for the weak-chested, and for obstinate coughs the whole onion was roasted with honey or sugar.

We do not have much established mental and emotional characteristics for All-c, but its healing qualities for runny eyes and nose are well known.

The allergy that can indicate All-c is usually prominent in the spring and in August. The cold and eye inflammation is characterised by:

The fluid is clear, and when being discharged from the nose it is mostly burning and acrid, whilst the discharge from the eyes is neither burning or acrid (the opposite of what we typically observe in Euphr).

General symptoms

• Left-sided ailments; start on the left, moving to the right
• Burning eyelids, nose, mouth, throat, bladder, skin
• Nosebleeds
• Coughs, colds or headaches that are < warm room, > fresh air, then < when coming back into warm room
• Easy perspiration, copiously
• Bad smell from mouth and throat
• Canine or lacking hunger
• Strong craving for raw onion, cannot take to other nutrition
• Aversion to cucumber
• Sensitive to the smell of flowers; peach skins
• Sensation as of a long thread in the face, head, neck or other place
• Sensation of glowing heat in various parts of the body
• Ailments from damp, cold wind; wet feet; injuries; surgery
• > fresh air; cold room; bathing; motion
• < warm room (not the cough); afternoon; evening; moist weather; spring; wet feet; lying down; singing; rest

The runny eyes and nose are especially prominent in the homoeopathic remedy picture of the red onion. Any ailment that give rise to these symptoms – whether colds or allergies – may benefit from All-c: as long as the characteristics match.

Whilst Euphr seems to affect the eyes the most, All-c appear to have greater effect on the nose.

Emotional, mental symptoms

• Anxious about own health; despair of recovery
• Fear of the pain becoming unbearable
• Indefinable anxiety
• Melancholy
• Indolence in the morning
• Confusion: < after coffee, wine

Physical symptoms

Abscesses/boils

• By finger-/toenail
• Whitlow; felon
• After giving birth

Allergies/hayfever

• Violent, constant sneezing (Ars) with discharge; after getting up in the morning; when handling peaches (from mould); when entering warm room
• Burning itch in the ears, nose, back of throat, roof of mouth and throat
• With cold symptoms and eye inflammation
• < in spring; August

Backache

• Pain under right shoulder blade

Blisters (abrasions)

• Wounds when the skin is rubbed off, especially on the heals
• From friction

Colds

• Profuse, burning, watery, one-sided nasal discharge; may excoriate the skin by the nose/upper lip; dripping nose
• Severe symptoms from nose, with plentiful sneezing (Nat-m)
• Burning and smarting in nose; burning pain along margin of nose and lips
• Stopped nose; nasal voice
• Sensation of lump at root of nose
• With eye inflammation; headache; sneezing; sore throat; sinusitis; hoarseness
• May transition into laryngitis/tonsillitis
• From cold wind; cold, damp weather; wet feet
• > fresh air
• < stuffy air; in spring
• The nasal discharge may pour mainly from one nostril. The symptoms are usually worse in a warm room, especially the sneezing. The nose feels like a faucet, and they stuff tissue inside to stop the flow.

Colic

• Violent, cutting pain in left lower abdomen, with frequent urge to urinate
• Pain in liver region
• From wet feet; overeating; cucumber; salads
• > moving about
• < sitting

Cough

• Hacking, irritating, painful, spasmodic cough; whooping cough
• Tickling in larynx; severe tearing sensation in larynx on coughing
• Constant urge to hawk
• Expectoration of lumpy mucus, through posterior sinuses
• With hoarse voice; lachrymation
• From breathing in cold air
• < cold air; autumn
• The cough is usually better in warm rooms (opposite of the cold symptoms). Grabs hold of the throat as it feels like the cough will tear the larynx.

Diarrhoea

• Rumbling, distended belly with urging, and eventually, diarrhoea
• < after midnight; in morning

Earache

• Shooting pain
• Aching that stretches to the throat
• Otitis media
• With discharge of pus; hardness of hearing

Eye inflammation

• Itching, biting, burning, runny, red eyes; sensitive to touch
• Burning eyelids; urge to rub them
• Swelling around eyes
• Conjunctivitis
• Bland, profuse discharge – that typically does not irritate the skin, but: may burn and sting as if from smoke; must sub eyes
• Light sensitivity
• As part of cold
• Sensation as if the eye hangs in a thread
• > fresh air
• < cough

Fever

• Fleeting heat all over the body
• Cold alternating with warmth during colds
• Chills down the back with frequent urination, followed by heat and thirst
• With rumbling belly, cold, thirst

Flatulence

• Rumbling, offensive flatus
• Bloated abdomen

Food poisoning

• From spoiled fish; cucumber, salads

Headache

• Dull, aching pain; in forehead; extends to eyes and face
• Pain at occiput and in nape of neck
• Sensation as if electric shock passes through head
• Numb scull bones
• During cold
• Ceases during menses, increases after
• > runny nasal discharge; fresh air
• < warm room; towards evening; closing eyes

Hernia

• Strangulated hernia
• < left side

Indigestion

• Sour belches
• Weak, empty sensation in stomach
• Pressure in stomach
• Pain in area of pylorus (junction of stomach and bowels)
• With rumbling and bloated belly
• Worms

Injuries

• Burning, stinging nerve pain
• Traumatic nerve pain like fine threads; in stumped parts following amputation (Hyper, Staph)

Joint pain

• Intense pain in the neck

Joints, limbs

• Skin easily rubbed off on feet
• Sore feet after walking great lengths
• < walking

Lung affections

• From colds that quickly settles in larynx and chest (Phos)
• Tightness from pressure in middle of chest
• Pneumonia
• Bronchitis

Nausea

• The nausea rises up from the stomach, through the throat, into the mouth

Piles/haemorrhoids

• Tearing, jerking pain in the anus
• Fissures and itching by the anus
• Stitching pain in the rectum
• In children

Polyps

• Nasal polyps

Sinusitis

• Accompanying colds
• With headache

Skin

• Prickly sensation as from pins
• Sensation of glowing heat in various parts

Skin eruption

• Redness in skin
• Nettle rash
• Measles
• Rash in scarlet fever, when accompanied by cold symptoms

Sore throat/tonsillitis

• Constricted sensation in and around larynx
• Burning tickling in larynx and voice box
• Constant urge to swallow (Merc-c)
• Sensation of lump in throat
• Violent inflammation of throat with lots of mucus; hoarse voice; sneezing; raw soreness
• Pain in throat stretching to the ear
• Itch in back of throat that drips into larynx and leads to hoarseness and change of voice.

Surgery

• Shooting pain after surgery

Toothache

• From damp, cold wind
• > picking or sucking on teeth
• < cold air; washing in cold water

Urinary tract infection

• Burning pain in urethra
• Weak sensation in bladder and urethra
• Painful, constricted sensation with great urge to urinate, but only small quantities pass; from wet feet
• Frequent, copious urination
• Increased amounts of urine with cold
• Red urine
• Sparse urine in elderly

Wounds/cuts

• Abrasions: raw spots on feet/heels, rubbed sore
• Wounds slow to heal