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Allium Cepa

30CAllium Cepa

Red Onion · Cepa · "The Hay Fever Remedy"

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🎯 Acts primarily on the mucous membranes of the upper respiratory tract, producing symptoms of a common cold or hay fever with acrid nasal discharge.

📖 Boericke writes:

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.

👤 Constitution

•Specially adapted to phlegmatic patients who are prone to catching colds in damp, cold weather.

⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See

Sensitive to light.

eyes

Copious, watery and extremely acrid discharge.

nose

Hoarseness.

respiratory

Hacking cough on inspiring cold air.

respiratory

Tickling in larynx.

respiratory

Sensation as if larynx is split or torn.

respiratory

🩺 Systems & Indications

👤HEAD

Useful for frontal headaches associated with colds that improve in cool air.

Catarrhal headache, mostly in forehead; worse in warm room towards evening.

Thread-like pains in face.

Headache ceases during menses; returns when flow disappears.

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💊 Dosage & Potency

Historical record, not a prescription. Boericke published this in 1927. It is not medical advice — consult a qualified practitioner before acting on it.

Summarised from the passage below — Boericke’s own wording is the record.

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Primary Dosage

🌿 Remedy Relationships

🤝 Complementary

Thuja Occidentalis →Pulsatilla Pratensis →Phosphorus →

🚫 Antidotes

Arnica Montana →Chamomilla →Veratrum Album →

🔄 Compare With

Gelsemium Sempervirens →Aconitum Napellus →Ipecacuanha →Euphorbium Officinarum →Kali Hydriodicum →

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

About the repertory →

Allium Cepa is listed in 115 rubrics across 16 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 41 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Nose20 Respiratory System14 Head12 Modalities11 Eyes10 Abdomen9 Locomotor System9 Nervous System9 Generalities4 Skin4 Face3 Urinary System3 Female Sexual System2 Stomach2 Fever2 Ears1

See all 115 rubrics for Allium Cepa →