# Allium Cepa (HMT)

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Remedy
- **Alternative Names:** Red Onion
- **Miasm:** Tubercular Miasm
- **Temperament:** Neutral
- **Aggravation Time:** Neutral/Anytime

## Keynote Indications
Allium Cepa is prepared from the red onion and is very helpful in
nasal catarrh  of the winter season.  It s symptoms resemble those
caused during the peeling of onions.  The throat becomes hoarse ,
nasal secretions are watery and acidic .  The eyes water, but do not get
red or irritated.  (Euphrasia cause s watering from the eyes with
burning type of itch an d redness.) The other point of difference in
Allium Cepa is that there is a persistent cough day and night.  In
Euphrasia, as the nasal secretions pour out of the eyes during the day
the cough is less frequent, but at ni ght the cough gets aggravated due
to the dripping of the nasal secretions  in the throat or into the lungs.
The patient wakes up and experiences severe bouts of coughing.  The
cough steadily starts easing off in the morning.  The eyes start
watering and redness occurs.

Allium Cepa does not produce redness in the eyes, instead it involves
the ears which ache, discharge and become partially deaf.  If it
happens as the result of a nasal cold, it can res pond favourably to
Allium Cepa, or other remedies like Chamomilla, Pulsatilla and
Ammonium Carb should be sought as indicated.

In Allium Cepa, the symptoms tend to migrate from the right to the
left.  This also happens in Lachesis, where the symptoms start on the
left side, and as the body defence responds, they migrate to the right
side.  The venom of the majority of the snakes mostly affects the left
side of the body.  It is strange but in teresting to know that snakes hate
onions.  In the Sindh province of Pakistan, people spread onions
around their beds to keep the snakes at bay and this method works.

In Allium Cepa, the symptoms of illness are aggravated by rest and
relieved by movement.  At night, th e symptoms worsen.  One catches
cold in cold and damp weather, an d feels relieved in open air.  Along
with the cold, there is headache, especially on the right temporal area
to the forehead.  The cold affects the left nostril before the right.

Allium Cepa is very helpful in whooping cough  and chicken pox .
Allium Cepa is very good in vomiting, indigestion and the passing of

foul gas in the early co urse of chicken pox.  It is also good in the
abdominal pain of children.

In Allium Cepa, abdominal pain cau ses an urge to pass urine with
burning pain at the bladder .  The urine is reddish in color.  Along
with cold symptoms there is freque nt urination.  The voice is hoarse,
the throat is irritated and the windpipe hurts.  There is severe coughing
and repeated sneezing.  The back of the neck hurts.  The patient feels
chills from the back downwards at  night. Consequently, the patient
has to pass urine frequently.

Sometimes along with the nasal catarr h, tiny little red pimples appear
with a piercing sensation.  Some ar eas of the body feel burning hot.
Allium Cepa is useful in neuralgic pains especially of the face, teeth,
head and neck.

Adjuvant:  Phosphorus, Thuja, Pulsatilla
Antidotes: Arnica, Chamomilla, Veratrum Album
Potency:  30 to 200

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