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Allium Cepa

30CAllium Cepa

Red Onion · Cepa · "The Hay Fever Remedy"

all-c.PolychrestPlantCommonPsoric

Source

🎯 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 indamp 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.

🔑 Modalities

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💊 Dosage & Potency

Decimal

🕒As directed

Primary Dosage

🌿 Remedy Relationships

🤝 Complementary

Thuja Occidentalis →Pulsatilla Pratensis →Phosphorus →

🚫 Antidotes

Arnica Montana →Chamomilla →Veratrum Album →

🔄 Compare With

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

📚 Sources & References

✓ Boericke's Materia Medica↗✓ Hering's Guiding Symptoms↗✓ Kent's Materia Medica↗✓ Clarke's Dictionary↗✓ Allen's Encyclopedia↗Hahnemann's Materia Medica PuraPhatak's Concise MM

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