Allium Cepa

Allium cepa, Willd. Nat. order, Liliacese. Common names, Onion ; (Germ.) Zwiebel ; (Fr.) Oignon. Preparation, Tincture from the red onion.

Authorities. 1 , C. Hering, 0; 2, C. Hering, from others, " ab," " gg," etc. ; 3, J. Jeans ; 4; W. Wesselhoeft, 0; 5, Geist, 3d ; 6, J. N. Eckel, 0; 7, Zumbrock, 0; 8, Alleborn, 0; (9, Toxicological;) (10, Old Authors;) 11, Linen ; 12, Williamson; 13, Pereira; 14, Neidhard ; 15, Rane ; 16, Z. B.; 17, Dubbs. (Authorities from Hering's Arznei Priifungen.)

Mind

To mandragora we may join the excessive use of garlic, onions, and leeks, because all physicians consider them very injurious, as occasioning deeply corrupted, malignant humidity, which inflame the blood, injure the eyes, the head, the brain, and stomach, predisposing to lethargy, sopor, somnolency, vertigo, epilepsy, and indeed insanity

Onions go to the head with their acridity, and injure the brain, and if one eats too much of them they can indeed cause insanity and madness

If many are eaten raw, they make a person foolish by reason of their aromas, which mount into the head

If too many are eaten, the onion-juice takes away the senses, by reason of its great heat aud acridity, and greatly injures the stomach

I find something injurious in the onion, and consider the opinion of Spigelius well founded, that a too free and continued use of it as food causes disturbances of the brain

Inexpressible anxiety, turning himself hither and thither full of despair, with severe colic

Pains, with sore fingers, make him frantic

* Very melancholy, with catarrh

In the afternoon, after wine and coffee, he was completely confused and absentminded by much business, forgot and twisted everything in the utmost confusion (the fourth day)

He makes mistakes in spelling a foreign language

Apathetic, mornings

Working people take in the morning onions with bread and salt for the bad air, as they do treacle, but idlers are made foolish, melancholy, and sleepy by its use

Cardanus affirms that even the offspring of those who eat onions freely are disposed to insanity

Head p. 147

* Confusion of the head,*; with coryza

Vertigo, etc.,'" ; (on rising up,°).

Head confused, especially in the forehead, after renewed eructations

Confusion of the head, after it had risen up from the stomach into the throat

Pain in both sides of the occiput, and a dull confusion from the crown backward and downward in the regions conscientiousness and love of approbation ;" continued the whole forenoon ; went away in the evening after drinking beer

Confusion in the occiput, first on both sides and towards the upper part, pressing down sideways, then behind the ears around the whole occiput (after one hour)

Pressure and confusion in the upper part of the occiput in the regions conscientiousness " love of approbation and caution the whole evening ; better in the open air, worse on returning to the Alarm room (first day)

Headache

Butthosein whom they produce headache should avoid them

Make a decoction of leeks in water and bathe the head in it, for headache

Raw, they are very injurious to the head and to the eyes

They frequently excite headache in inflammatory constitutions

They afflict the head and eyes, hence they should be avoided by those who study, and have a humid, weak head, sight, aud hearing

If eaten too much, they cause headache

* Headache, better in the open air

Headache, worse on return to thetoarmroom,^, etc.

* Headache in the room, evenings, with coryza

Headache, with coryza

Headache and coryza, loose evenings (fourth day)

Severe headache, xvith slight coryza

Headache and gastric troubles

Headache and yawning

The whole head became hot (after cutting onions)

Heat of the head

Heat and heaviness of the head, lasting from the forenoon till near evening ; after cutting onions

The head is full and heavy

Fulness aud heaviness in the head, as if it were bound up, with flickering of the eyes

Like electric shocks through the head

Aching of the head,l

Dulness in the head, with some coryza and lachrymations, in the evening on cutting onions

Dulness in the forehead and whole head, as after inhaling chloroform

Dull, oppressive pain in the head

Heaviness in the head

Oppressive headache over the eyes, frequently going through the head like an electric shock (the first day)

* Pain in the forehead, with catarrh

Stitches, as of needles, in the forehead

Stitches over the whole left forehead, externally ; they draw into the ear, the upper jaw, and the teeth of the same side (immediately after taking it) ; evenings

Pains deep in the head over the left brow (after one hour)

Headache the next morning, especially in both temples

* Pains in both temples, most severe in the right, aggravated by ivinking, afterward the pain extends over the forehead, worse on the left side

As if swollen and heavy on the crown/.

Pain left of the crown (after seventy minutes)/.

Headache, from both sides of the head, downward and inward toward the middle (after ten minutes)

Tingling pain behind the left mastoid process

Headache in the region of the organ of concentration

Pains deep in the head, sticking to the ear

Headache, first in the occiput, then in the forepart on the right side over the eye

Headache on both sides of the occiput, afterwards in only two large round places in the upper posterior part of the head, in the region "love of approbation ;" still later, a general and humming sensation of the part being asleep

The pressure in the upper part of the occiput in the evening, became about eleven oclock a sensation of being asleep; on touching it, he first noticed it was not in the scalp, but as if in the bone

With pressive headache is the sensation, as if the whole head externally were wrapped up in warm water

For alopecia, Hippocrates directed the s{3ots to be rubbed with onions

(The hair is made to grow by anointing the bald spots with onions, ° \)

(It promotes the growth of hair in baldness better than Alcyonium,° ^°.)

It may be used externally for making the hair grow, anointing the shaven head with it; the juice also makes the hair grow

(For promoting the growth of the hair, the head is washed at evening with French brandy which has stood over freshly cut onions

(Bald spots are to be rubbed with a cut onion till they are red, to make the hair grow,° '".)

Eyes p. 148

(Blue-eyed, ° ^*'.)

(The eyes are no longer watery and dim ; the sixth day

they have their natural lustre; the seventh day

causes biting in the eyes, irritates to tears (an undoubted action of onion)

At evening, on cutting up onions, there was a continual dropping from the eyes, then they become painful

Pungent smell, biting, and weeping of the eyes, and sneezing, after taking it,l

* Causes lachrymation

(The juice represses the excessive lachrymation,° ^".)

The eyes water alter a few hours (first day)

The left eye pains the next morning; fine stitches in it ; after cutting the onions in the evening

* The lachrymation of the left eye, with coryza, ivus much greater, the eye was much redder, and more sensitive to the light than the right (first day

* Excessive lachrymation of the left eye, with redness of the eyeball, after frequent sneezing (third day)

'-^'-The lachrymation is for the most part in the evening, in the warm room; the left eye weeps viore, and also is more sensitive to the light

* Watering of the eyes and nose

* Lachrymation, with coryza

Lachrymation (not excoriating), with coryza

Burning in the outside of the right upper lid (after three minutes)

Burning in the lids,l

As if there were smoke in the eyes under the upper lids, mostly in the night (the first day)

Redness of the lids, with catarrh

After drinking coffee, an irritation on the left upper lid, which necessitates frequent rubbing; worse in the warm room, disappearing in the open air (the first day, and morning of the second)

Irritation of the left upper lid reappears very strikingly after the thirtieth

Itching in the supraorbital region, more on the left side (after one hour)

Burning itching in the brows, the supraorbital region, and the upper lids; evening of the first day/

Heat in the left eyebrow

Needle-stitches in the b^ows

Pressive pain over the right eye (after twenty minutes)

Feeling of heaviness over both eyes and in the forehead ; after a few minutes, lasting two hours

Pains in the eyes as if they would be torn out, as if the eye hung loose posteriorly, on a string, and could be bored into with the fingers and torn out

Drawing pains in the left cheek, going into the interior of the left eye; better in the cold air (the second day)

Pain over the right eye to the root of the nose

(Pain from the cheeks into the left eye,^)

(Commencing ecchymoses in the eyes

(Ulcers, spots in the eyes,° '".)

(Irritant affections of the eyes, used with ashes,° '".)

(A stye is to be rubbed with a piece of raw onion, '".)

{*Swelling of the lids and around the eye, xvith coryza°.')

On becoming sleepy while reading, the letters appear to him very small (soon after the second dose)

Flickering and blinding before the eyes; everything dances hither and thither; therewith fulness and heaviness in the head, as if bound up ; the whole head becomes hot, and feels swollen and heavy on the vertex, together with so much general weakness that she must lie down ; after cutting onions

A bright dazzling in the distance, and dimness near by

The eyes ai*e sensitive to the light, particularly the left

[HO.] Cloudy sight by candlelight,l

Ears p. 149

Pecking behind the right ear (after one minute)

Pains moving from deep within the head to the ears, like thick threads, about a finger in length, remaining in particular spots, from a pea to a hazel-nut in size (after fifty minutes)

Pain behind the ears deep within the head, from backward and inward to the ears ; a sensation entirely new and peculiar to him (after one hour)

Stitches drawing from the left forehead into the ear

Under the left ear a hard swelling the size of a hazel-nut, extending from over the angle of the lower jaw to the ear, from which pains go into the ear, especially on pressure

A painful sensation from the throat to the ears (after five minutes)

Chilling, or burning twitching on the right side of the throat in the region of the Eustachian tube, then above it a kind of gnawing; neither painful (after one hour)

Pains in the throat drawing into the right ear

The ears, the throat, especially about the root of the tongue, were decidedly affected (fifteen minutes after the second dose)

Stitches through the right ear the next morning

(Dropped into the ears, it removes the pains, as well as the roaring and ringing '*'.)

(The heart of the- onion is to be put into the ears for tearing in the ears,° *°.)

Ringing in the ears now and then ; also soft, in both ears, as from sounds far distant (mostly in the right ear, from which he hears (fourth to seventh day)

Humming in the ears on lying down

Roaring in the left ear, as heretofore only after a severe cold ; afternoon of the first day

Nose p. 149

Pain from over the right eye into the root of the nose

(Mixed with vinegar and put into the nose, it stops the bleeding, which the simple smell of the onion also does,° '".)

(For nose-bleed, put onions on the neck,° ^"S)

* At evening, walking in the street, increased dropping from the nose, quite unusual, from both nostrils, without the sensation of coryza (first (Jay)/.

* Copious watery discharge from the nose, and watering of eyes

{^Discharge of ichorous fluid from the nose in convalescing scarlet fever,° I)

Crawling in the right nostril, as before sneezing ; must frequently blow thin mucus out of the nose; one hour after one drop of the third (forenoon)

Frequent sneezing in the evening when he comes into a warm room (second day)

Sneezing

Since collecting onions in the harvest, fi)ur years before, a brother and sister, each in the thirtieth year, experienced for the first time a coryza, recurring at the same time each year, and continuing two to three weeks; they would sneeze severely twenty to thirty times every morning, and were obliged to avoid peaches on account of their rough skin, as well as all flowering trees and plants (Nux vom. relieved very greatly, but still other medicines had to be administered)

The most violent sneezing, as if she would be torn to pieces, as soon as she steps out of bed

In the evening, after drinking beer and eating herring, excessive thirst ; heated severe coryza,iviih much lachnjination, headache; acrid burning discharge from the nose, so that the upper lip became red and sensitive (first day)

Nasal discharge and headache, better in the open air, the first day ; not so severe the next morning ; at evening, worse in the room, distinctly relieved as soon as he goes into the open air, the second day ; on awaking, very slight the third day ; after repeating the dose, more severe

Much irritation in the right nostril, soreness of the nose, sneezing, lachrymation, morning of the fourth and tuth days, with headache

Some soreness of the nose yet (the eighth day)

Coryza, at times with stoppage, that she speaks through the nose ;" at times with profuse mucous discharge

=^'With coryza, trembling of the hands at evening

* Acrid discharge from the left nostril

(After rapid alternations of cold and warm days, in November, 1852, a young lady complained that she had suffered for a few days from coryza ; worse every evening. Water ran profusely from the nose, she sneezed frequently, her head was confused, the lids and about the eyes were swollen, much lachrymation (not acrid, as in euphrasia), frequent cough, tension in the upper part of the chest, loss of appetite. She took Cep4V in the evening, slept the whole night, was quite well the following day, and remained so (Lippe),°.)

(The nose is humid, with slight coryza, but with severe pain in the forehead, which this time was not relieved by lying down, as is usually the case with her coryzas. In a woman, 50 years old; better in the evening,".)

(Fluent coryza, dropping clear water » (on the right side, as usual with him); had not only lasted twelve hours, as customary, but many days, in spite of cold bathing ; it disappeared within a few hours after Cepa

Face p. 150

Expression of anxiety and despair with pain in the abdomen

Pain in the right upper jaw like a thread in a nerve, which goes from above downwards, from the median line to the side, deep with the bone, at evening, the first day

The pain in the right upper jaw on lying down in the evening, extends on the morning of the second day, from the nose outward and downward

Drawing stitches from the left forehead into the upper jaw

Severe pains (like neuralgia), from the ujDper half of the right eye to the root of the nose

Drawing pains in the left cheek, extending into the left eye (third day)

(Paralysis of the left half of the face, which is also somewhat noticed in the limbs of the same side, together with altogether too copious secretion of urine, °^.)

Spots warmer than usual on the right cheek (after fifty minutes)

Heat, especially in the face, every time after eating onions ; several sisters

Heat of the face in the evening

(Facial erysipelas I)

(Parree produced a nettle-rash eruption on the face and on the body, also on many in the family,'.)

Swelling of the cheeks with toothache

The upper lip is red and sensitive from the acrid nasal discharge

Mouth p. 150

Pecking in the two hindermost back teeth (after three minutes)

In the first upper teeth, right side, sensitive drawing from the root to the crown (after thirty minutes) ; later, the same feeling in the corresponding teeth on the left side (the first day)

Pressive toothache in the right upper and lower back teeth, with the inclination to bore the tongue into and suck them, which relieves, lasting an hour ; after travelling against the northwest wind, the fifth day ; again the sixth day, after going against the northwest wind

Slight pressure in the right back teeth on going into a warm room. At breakfast (with warm cocoa), painful ; relieved by cold water (the seventh (lay)

At breakfast, the back teeth pain from eating bread, so that only soft food can be eaten. A pressive pain remains for some time afterward. Toward noon, the pain disappears on the right side, and settles in the root of the left eye-tooth ; the gum around the root is inflamed; the pain frequently ceases suddenly and commences in an instant in a right back tooth ; in the eye-tooth it is pressive, growling; cold water, cold in general relieves (the eighth day)

The pressive toothache comes on after walking against the north wind, is relieved by poking and sucking with the tongue; is much aggravated on eating warm soup, and disappears after a swallow of cold water; always the same after repeated experiments

Pressive pain in the root of the left eye-tooth disturbs the sleep, with excessive heat in the cheeks; towards morning, remission and sweat; the cheeks feel swollen (ninth day)

During sleep, feeling as if the back teeth were too long, with some pain ; disappears on rising ; two nights

Drawing stitches from the left forehead into the teeth

Immediately after eating onions, raging pain attacks a broken tooth. Arnica, high in water, relieved just as speedily,^l

The teeth are a smutty yellow in the morning, they remain so the whole day, in one who has very white and sound teeth ; continues three to five days

The tongue has a foul coat, especially in the morning, on the back part, the third day ; slimy, the fifth day

The tongue is furred the next morning

Dryness at the root of the tongue, on the right side,'l

Mouth and tongue as if scalded

Pains under the tongue; at the lower insertion of the fraenum it is surrounded with a half circle of small sore elevations, the next morning and the whole day

The mouth is not as coated in the morning (the second day)

Dryness in the mouth, without thirst

It causes an offensive breath (general experience).

(Onions remove the bad taste in the raouth,° *".)

(Onions remove the offensive breath,"'".)

(The juice is of service in putrid sore mouths,° '".)

(Antiscorbutic '".)

It has a syveet and aromatic acrid taste

Sweet and nauseous taste after taking it, and so also on the third day

On awaking, nauseous taste, the third day and morning of the fifth

A sickly-sweet taste, also again, after the thirtieth, though in a less degree

Burning taste, more on the gums and upper part

(Loss of taste,°'».)

Throat p. 151

The throat was decidedly affected, after fifteen minutes

. A condrietive pain in the forepart of the throat, low down in the region of the OS hyoides, after jive or six minutes ; low down posteriorly on the right side, after seven minutes

Drawing pain in the left side of the throat, relieved by cold air (second day)

Some redness on the back part of the palate on the right side

Pain in the throat extending to the ear

In the throat and orifice of the Eustachian tube, chilling or burning twitching and gnawing, not painful

Heat low in the pharynx, extending into the stomach,'-.

* Pain in the throat below the larynx, as after swallowing too large a mouthful, or as if swollen ; the pains extend every little while into the right ear ; the whole afternoon, coming on after midday, ten drops

In the pharynx, the feeling as if the food remained stuck behind the breast-bone,'l

Throat-ache, as if there was a lump in the throat, which is sore, but only on swallowing and elevating the tongue, the next morning (twenty-four hours)

fin chronic difficulty of deglutition, like a ball in the throat she brought up a lump of mucus and was then relieved '.)

[200-] Throat-ache as after taking cold

(Soreness of the throat with catarrh ".)

A sense of nausea extending into the throat

A benumbed feeling in the back part of the throat, persistent (first day)

Great dryness of the soft palate after breakfast, coutiuuiug two hours aud a half (first day)

With great dryness of both nostrils, considerable thirst; white, frothy, tasteless mucus collects in the fauces, which is easily expectorated without cough

Dryness in the throat

He hawks up mucus which has a sweetish, nauseous taste, the third day

Toward evening, collection of mucus behind the choantB

In the posterior fauces, in the choanse, and on the posterior surface of the soft palate, a soft bland mucus constantly collects, which compels one either to swallow or hawk it up ; evening of the first day

In the morning, a raw feeling in the fauces, with tickling in the region of the epiglottis, first on the right, then on the left side ; together with a sensation of weakness in the stouiacli, very annoying hiccough, aud uprising of frothy salivary mucus fluid ; eructations of wind, and passage of offensive flatus. Therewith, constant inclination to hacking to relieve the tickling in the larynx. After breakfast, severe pain in the right ankle, and rumblings in the abdomen (second day)

(Diminished secretion of mucus in the throat, with chronic catarrh of the fauces, ° *.)

Mucus in the fauces

Stomach p. 152

(Loss of appetite with coryza,° Lippe.)

Onions promote an appetite, but if one eats too many they cause a revulsion of the stomach

The appetite is increased

The appetite is excited even to canine hunger

They produce an appetite which, however, disappears immediately as soon as he begins to eat; food is disgusting to him,l

The priests were forbidden its use because it produced thirst

Onions excite thirst

Thirst excessive, with stomach-ache,'"; with tympanitis

Thirst, with heat, evenings, with coryza ; after chilliness ; after flushes of heat at evening

(Nausea '".)

A horrible deathly nausea in the stomach, with very slight eructations which, however, relieve somewhat ; every day after eating ; in one who did not know what she took

Feeling of nausea after fifteen minutes

Nausea in the posterior part of the throat, is forced up as with a thrust, after thirty minutes

Nausea seems more properly to be seated in the stomach ; very soon

Nausea

Slight warmth in the abdomen and squeamishness, soon after taking it

Squeamishness and slight attacks of nausea from the bowels up into the throat, then slight confusion of the head ; soon

There are some who, smelling onions in a distant kitchen, taste them in their mouth, so that afterwards everything tastes of them and produces nausea

(Nausea on becoming erect,"^.)

Frequent eructations ; he tastes onions in the afternoon, after taking four drops of the tincture in the morning

Immediately after eating onions, long-continued eructations, but not after the tincture

At evening, eructations of wind ; flashes of heat over the whole body, and thirst (the fourth day)

Eructations still incessant on the morning of the fifth day, without repetition of the dose

Eructations of wind *; with distension of the abdomen,"; with rumblings

Slight eructations relieve the horrible nausea in the stomach

(It stops sour eructations, ° '".)

Even the smell of onions makes her vomit; she cannot swallow the tincture in water ; it came up again, she is so averse to it

Vomiting frothy, slimy fluid,l

Vomiting, and disease which resulted in death, after eating onions

Annoying hiccough

Stimulates digestion

Irritates the stomach and promotes digestion ; excessive use, however, gives rise to dyspeptic troubles

Raw onions give rise to injurious secretions in the stomach, thirst, inflammation, flatulence, and headache

Feeling of emptiness, and drawings back and forth in the stomach, with some pain

Sense of weakness in the stomach

Pain on the left side of the stomach

Oft-repeated pressure deep within the epigastrium, as if it were at the orifice of the stomach, and on the posterior side; evening at ten (the first day)

Dull pain below the breast-bone, more to the right side, on moving in bed ; evening at ten (after five minutes)

Pain below the sternum on stooping, morning

Pain in the region of the pylorus

Pressure in the stomach and fulness in the head

Pressure in the stomach

Pressure in the stomach and yawning

Heat extending into the stomach, 'I

After dinner all the symptoms vanish (after one and a half hours)

After su[)per the syrajitoms again disappear as after dinner, the first day

Distension of the abdomen before dinner

Pain in the bowels, worse after eating

Abdomen p. 153

Pressive pain in the hepatic Legion, which extends through the whole abdomen

The pains seat themselves for some time in the right hypochondrium, with which are cold shudders down the back, so that he can scarcely get warm ; evening at nine (third day)

Stitches in the left side, toward evening the first day, morning of the second day, worse on lying the fourth day

Contractive pain in the left hypochondrium, with the sensation of wind moving about

Pain about the navel, an hour after dinner (3 r.M.),*l

Pain in the umbilical region

-The pains in the bowels are most severe while sitting ; on moving about there is passage of flatus and relief to the pains (the first day)

Half an hour after drinking coffee, in the afternoon, the pains in the bowels returned more severe, mostly in the left inguinal region, more pressing than burning, but with heat in the abdomen (second day)

With rumbling in the abdomen, the pains return more severe than before, with passage of much flatus ; morning of the third day after the second dose

Flatulent colic

Pain in the abdomen and shoulder (right half ?)

Pains in the abdomen, worse every time after eating

Pain in the left side of the abdomen, as though he had punched himself in this place

On walking, a sudden burning or chilling cutting

-a pain thin as a thread

in the hypogastrium, from both sides inward toward the middle and upward (after one hour)

Burning glow or chilling sensation, as if scattered, with confused feeling in the right side of the abdomen ; thereupon slight passage of half-loud very offensive onion flatus (after an hour and a half )

A warm or chilling sensation, as if a glow within beat against the abdomen, on the right side, and over the external and upper part of both thighs ; evening of the first day from nine to ten. Repeated later. The sensation was as if a glowing heat beat against one, but without the same heat, only Warmth

Heat in the abdomen, with pain

In pelvic region, internally on right side, above and inside of the groin, very severe pressure on a small spot ; it seems to be on the inside of the pelvic cavity. After twenty minutes, like a violent pain on a small spot, deep in the right side of the pelvis; evenings (first day)

Violent pains, like cuttings with very small knives, with a twisting motion deep in above the left groin, midway on a line between the symphysis pubis and anterior superior spinous process of the ilium. This pain moves, turning here and there in a small space ; never had the like before (fourth and fifth days)

Pains in the left flank (second day)

Burning pressure in region of bladder ; soon afterward in the small of the back (10 P.M., first day)

Pressive pains deep in pelvis (in prostate?)

Periodic pains in the pubic region, worse on sitting (the first day)

Sticking and pressive pain in posterior inguinal ring and spermatic cord (immediately)

(Hernia in left groin protruded and strangulated, °. Lippe.)

Ate some small onions; in four hours, indefinable anxiety; walks about, and finally, full of apprehension, throws himself on the bed, and soon gets up again; constant violent pains in left side of abdomen, more in middle and lower part of abdomen and in region of bladder, with troubles in urinating, and no stool ; violent thirst; in face, expression of anxiety and doubt; skin hot, especially in the painful and sensitive places ; pulse somewhat accelerated, full, hardish

Woman, 40 years old, after eating cooked onions ; the hernia in the left groin much protruded and strangulated ; very severe pains from high up in the left side of the hypochondrium drew towards the incarcerated hernia; very restless ; much fever, etc. ; the hernia returned after a single dose of Aconite^'*, and no farther remedies were necessary (Lippe).

Pain, drawing from the region of the liver through the whole abdomen

(Colic, gastric, wind and hemorrhoidal colic ; in more than twenty cases, by a physician who was severely attacked on a journey, and without other remedies, seeing a string of onions hanging up, took (with a Rademacherian intuitive remedial instinct) one of the largest of the string, and devoured it with true canine hunger, and suddenly is enchanted by being free from colic,°. Loeffler.)

(Colic after immoderate eating,°. Loeffler.)

(Frequent pains in bowels in the summer, especially if he has eaten cucumbers, salad, or the like; this relieves nearly every time, and a second dose is rarely needed,° ^)

(In colic of children often useful ^)

(Ascites (11 years old); roasted and rubbed in as a salve, with goosegrease; even after twenty-four hours use, the water flowed from her by the quart ; she became weak, that she was despaired of, but she rallied, and there was no relapse after six years,". Frank's Mag.)

Flatulent distension of the abdomen

If too many are eaten, they distend the abdomen and cause flatulency

(Removes flatulency '".)

Make bad blood, afford little nourishment, puff up the abdomen, cause thirst, injure the bile

Cooked, they become milder and sweeter, but still cause flatulency (Hahnemann).

Flatulence from raw onions. In one woman, raw onions always caused much wind in the stomach, and eructations ; cooked onions, never

Immediately eructations of wind, then confusion of the head, especially in the forehead, and distension of the abdomen ; afterwards urgency to stool, but only passage of wind, with weak feeling in the limbs, and at evening free expectoration of mucus ; the distension of the abdomen continued till the next day, and ended with a diarrhoea, when all the other symptoms also disappeared (from fifty drops of tincture several times repeated)

Continued eructations, nausea, and pressure in the stomach, with rumbling and gurgling in the abdomen, especially on the left side, where there is stitching and rumbling, and urgency to stool, which is ineffectual

Rumbling in the abdomen, with passage of much wind through the anus, preceded by a sensation of heat and frequent eructations (soon after taking, the first day)

Frequent eructations, abdomen distended and painful ; relieved every time after passing wind downwards, with internal heat (first day)

Sensation as if the abdomen were much swollen, with sharp pain and oppression of breathing before and after diarrhoea

Rumbling in the transverse colon, evenings, and sudden urgency to stool

Rumbling in the bowels, with stomach-ache ; epigastrium after breakfast ; in left side of 1 ower bowels

The abdomen is distended before dinner, so that the clothes seem too tight (after one hour)

Lower abdomen very heavy, as if it were pressed upon, before and after standing ; disappeared after bathing (the ninth day)

He opinionated ! (Zwiebelt) (Popular expression); the young people in Upper Lusatia say, if they wish to express themselves politely he has made a mistake (Zweifelt), without knowing how analogous the abdominal mistake is to the scientific. Both are criticizable (Grimm).

Very offensive flatus \ and moist ; mornings/.

Offensive flatus, with h)ud passage (after fifty minutes)/.

Frequent flatus, difficult to pass; evenings (the first day)

Flatus difficult to press out, odorless (the first day)

Frequent passage of flatus at night

Offensive, moist flatus (first day)

Frequent passage of flatus without pain

Less passage of wind in the morning and all day; the few passages are (contrary to all habit) very offensive

Exceptionally little flatus, almost none, in one who is accustomed to pass a great deal every morning, though he had eaten apples the previous evening according to his custom (the second and subsequent days); this diminished emission of flatus, mornings, and its offensive odor, lasted for over a year, after which the flatus was as odorless and abundant as before

Pain in bowels relieved after passing wind

Stool and Anus p. 155

Promotes defecation

Soft evacuations without pain

If he eats onions in the evening, he becomes sleepy, and his eyes heavy ; the next morning, he has a regular and satisfactory stool

After eating food seasoned with onions always diarrhoea, either the next night or towards mormng

Feeling of diarrhoea in the bowels, and soft stool without diarrhoea

Purging (the third day and later)

Purging (third to seventh day), also nights

Diarrhoea following distension of the abdomen, whereupon all troubles disappear

(Diarrhoea after midnight and toward morning ^)

Absence of evacuations, with most severe bellyache, t.

Difficult evacuation of fbeces (at the usual time after breakfast) ; though without hard fteces, still he had to strain very hard (the third day)

The stool fails (the third day)

Stool on the morning of the fourth day, long and thick

(No stool for many days, with catarrh, ° ®.)

Satisfactory stools in the morning, in constipated habits

Since an intermittent fever and large doses of China, two years previous, the prover had infrequent evacuations (four to eight days, without feeling the slightest desire); they occurred mostly at evening ; since the proving, for a year and a half, he has had a stool nearly every morning, only very seldom omitting for two or three days

Strong urging and pressure for a soft stool at the usual time (five or six days)

Sudden urging to stool, with rumbling,'l

Urging to stool, with rumbling in bowels, but nothing passes

Urging to stool, but only passage of wind

A very painful stitch extends along the rectum down into its lower part (afternoons)

With an evacuation, it seems as if there were cracks on the inside of the anus (morning of seventh day)

In the anus, and some protruding haemorrhoids, a cold creeping, like a cool worm, more on left side (after one hour and later)

Biting in anus

Blood passes with the stool (tenth to twelfth day); (had not happened since he proved Lithium)

Urinary Organs p. 155

Dull pains in right kidney region, and a very uncomfortable feeling of fulness in the bladder, with frequent urging to urinate (second day)

Most violent pains in region of bladder and uterus

Pressure in the bladder

Irritability of the bladder, and pain over the kidney region

Very uncomfortable feeling of fulness in the bladder and urgency to urinate

Pain in region of the bladder and in left side of abdomen, t.

(Weak feeling in bladder and urethra I)

Very pleasant sensation of warmth in the urethra, without erections or sexual desire

* Copious nriiuiting { after noons)

Urgency to urinate and feeling of fulness in the bladder

{* Frequent urinating, with catarrh,°^.)

* Frequent urinating, with burning in the urethra; the urine very red (second day) ; all day, still oftener evenings (third day); especially with shuddering and chilliness

Frequent excessive urging to urinate, with dribbling burning discharge, t.

Is obliged to pass even small amounts of urine; this ceased after a few days, but again returned and remained a long time

Urinating is more difficult

Iridescent film on the urine in two cases

Urine very frothy, but clear; the froth remains longer than usual

Very red urine,^"; with reddish-yellow, sandy sediment

(In albuminuria it relieved the frequent urinating, and even diminished the amount of albumen, ° I)

(Pressure with the hand on the bladder increases the child's cries,° \)

(Sensitiveness of the bladder and pain in the region of the kidneys, weak feeling of the bladder and urethra of long duration (cured by six doses), ° \)

(*Polyuria,° \)

(Difficult micturition from spasmodic closure of the bladder,°.)

(Spasmodic strangury after getting the feet and bowels cold,°.)

(Roasted and bound on to the navel ; popular remedy.)

(Dribbling or spurting urine in old people \)

Sexual Organs p. 156

Increases coition and arouses sexual desire

Increases virility

Increases desire

Mornings on waking, erections with painful tension, without sexual desire (eighth, ninth, and tenth days)

Drawings in right spermatic cord (first 'day)

Pain from inguinal ring along spermatic cord

Burning in urethra

Burning pain in forepart of the glans

On account of weakness in the hips, he cannot finish coition, even after two or three repeated attempts (first day)

Pressive pains in bladder and prostate, deep in the pelvis, the next morning and forenoon, after coitus (fourth, fifth, and sixth days)

Violent pains in uterine region

Brings on menses

Brings on menses, but not very strong

Juice mixed with wine brings on menses

Shoved into the womb brings on menstruation

Eaten raw, it expedites menstruation

Expels urine and menses

Macerated in vinegar it brings on menses

Itcspirulory Apparatus.

Tickling in the epiglottis

Tickling in the larynx, with copious and troublesome collection of mucus in the £fauces

Tickling in the throat, with aching in the larynx °

* Hoarseness

(Hoarseness in spring,° ^.)

Throbbing in larynx, and sensation as if it contracted,^'K

Cannot breathe freely evenings ; an obstruction in the middle of the chest, in the upper part

Asthmatic breathing, as often before, at 11 p.m., after smoking tobacco

Oppression of breathing, with ascites

Relieved asthma and caused copious sweat,°

(Pressure in the upper part in the middle of the chest, makes respiration difficult,° '\)

On deep inspiration, sticking in the left side

* 0n inspiring cold air hacking cough

Dryness and tickling in the throat, and hacking cough mornings (fourth day)

* Constant inclination to hack in order to relieve tickling in the larynx

(Tickling in the throat and cough, ° ^)

(Short cough, which plagued him very much for a week,° *.)

(*Violent catarrh in a boy, after northeast wind and rainy weather, eyes suffused, lids very red, as from crying and rubbing them ; nose dropping, throat sore, and some cough, ° '.)

{^'A severe cold, frequent sneezing, lachrymation, pain in forehead, acrid discharge from left nostril, hacking cough on inspiring cold air, cold alternates with heat ; no stool for several days,° ".)

(*Violent catarrhal laryngitis ; the hoarse cough seemed to split and tear the larynx° ; cause watering of the eye, etc.,°.)

Chest p. 156

Pain in chest

Pain in the chest, as though the food had remained lodged behind the sternum

Stitches in the left chest with burning pain

( The sticking pains in the left side are aggravated by every deep inspiration ".)

Sticking pain in various parts of the chest; most in region of cartilages of the fifth and sixth ribs

(Flitting pains in chest,° ^)

(Tension in upper part of chest, with coryza and cough, ° \)

Heart and Pulse p. 157

Pulse accelerated, full, hardish, with stomachache ; excited nights

Pulse harder evenings, only 82-84 beats (first day)/.

Neck and Back p. 157

Shiverings in the back

Pains a hand's breadth below the right shoulder, more towards the spine, after long sitting

(Pain of the right shoulder-blade, on lying in bed,°.)

Stitches in lumbar region

Pains in the loins, as he used to have if he had no stool for several days (third day)

Burning pressure in small of back

Pain in region of left kidney, afterwards less severe in the right (first day), the ibllowing days in the left

Aching in region of left kidney

Dull pains in right kidney region, and a very uncomfortable feeling of fulness in the bladder, with frequent urging to urinate (second day)

(Pain in region of kidneys,° ^.)

(Pains over the region of kidneys

Extremities in General p. 157

* Ju all the limbs, especially on both arms, sore as if it were all scratched off, with tired feeling therein

Rheumatic pains in the joints

Troubles as after taking cold ; the next day, pains in all the bones, aching in the throat, prostration, etc.

Restlessness in all the limbs ; cannot hold them still

Weak sensation in the limbs, with flatulent troubles

(Neuralgia of the stump (after amputation), violent burning stinging pains,°.) (Tincture.)

Upper Extremities p. 157

Pain in shoulder and abdomen

Sweat in axilla

Weak sensation, especially in the arms

A stitch run through the right arm, from the shoulder-blade to the elbow, with burning pain

Needle stitches in the arms

Numb sensation in the left elbow-joint, worse on slight motion (forenoons)

Numb sensation in left elbow-joint, with headache

In right elbow-joint, pain as from a blow, seventh day at noon

Painful affection of the left forearm, especially in the radius on resting on the arm in writing ; evenings (first day)

Pain in the middle of the left radius, disappears on taking hold of it and rubbing, but returns (second day)

Pains in the right wrist, on the back, and extensor side, evenings (fir^t day)

Lameness in the joints of left hand

Trembling of right hand, so that he can hardly write, evenings, with coi-yza (first day)

Trembling of right hand (also after X again)

Dry, red hands, as if he had been in the cold (third day)

Pain in left middle finger

Pain in right fourth and fifth finger (soon)

Voluptuous, corrosive itching, especially on the palmar side of the left thumb, from the first to second phalanx, not on the ball, lasts all evening, till after 10 P.M. (first day)

Sweat of palm of hand

Lower Extremities p. 157

Excessive tired feeling in the region of the hips, late in the evening, on rising from sitting, on Walking, especially on going up steps (first day)

Weakness in the hips, nights

Bruised pain in left thigh, in lower part on the side, very near the knee (first bour)

Pain, almost burning pressure in upper part of left thigh, toward the outer side (after seventy minutes)

Pain in left thigh, on the outer side, very near the knee, like the pain in the ankle (one and a half hours)

Pain on outer side of right thigh, above the knee (one and a half hours)

On the outer side and upper part of both thighs, a glowing sensation

Nettlerash on both thighs down to the knees, with heat ; on rubbing, they itch, and at upper part, there are hard round pimples ; in lower part, marbled spots ; after a cold and other troubles

Shooting pains in left leg and right foot,l

Paralytic pains in the knee-joint

Stitches in the right knee, as if corning from the bones, from within, extending outward, in front

Burning pressure in the middle of the left lower leg, on a small spot externally, then on the right, just the same, but low down, evenings (first day)

Severe pains in right ankle, mornings

Pains in left ankle (after one hour)

Burning pains around the left outer ankle, afterward lower down, and a burning pressure externally, then also internally (after one and a quarter hours)

Pains in the right foot, evenings (first day)

Painful twitching on inner side of left heel

Pain in the most external soft parts of the right great toe, and also in the left 'middle finger

Violent ticking pain in the metatarsal bones of the left great toe, repeated and becomes continued ; evenings (first day)

(Places on the outside of the left ankle, rubbed sore and inflamed, and very painful, speedily cured, after other things tried in vain,° \)

Generalities p. 158

Attacks at once the whole body, and causes a shock, with eructations of wind

The whole body is set into a revolution which the prover is not in a condition to describe

Such weakness over and over, that she must lie down

Deathly faintness after profuse micturition

Skin p. 158

External redness and itching of the skin. A slight corrosive itching here and there, with which are little points, which cannot be very well described or seen ; an indefinite desire to be rubbed or washed, but still a severe, distinct sensation, evenings, worse sitting still after going out (first day)

Stitches, as with needles, in the skin, especially on the head, on the forehead, in the brows, in the throat, and on right arm

(Nettlerash on the thigh

A wart between the left shoulder and side of neck begins to pain the next morning, is red and scratched fir

Fever p. 158

Unusual chilliness

Frequent cold shivers creep along the back (first day)

Cold creepings along the back (fifth day)

Shivers down the back, especially nights in bed; he wants always more covering; therewith, he feels feverish in all his veins, and has sweat, especially in the axilla and in palms. (Young man who did not know what he took)

Cold shivers down the back, with liver-pains (evenings)

Shivering and chilliness, with increased urinating

Internal coldness, with subsequent heat and great thirst, which continues into the night (third day)

(Coldness alternates with heat, in catarrh ".)

It is injurious, by overheating

Increased warmth of the skin

Feverish through all the veins, with shiverings in the back

The juice arouses the circulation (Hahnemann).

'^•Flitting heat now and then}.

Internal heat, with rumbling in abdomen

Heat in the head, on the head, in brows, in face, in cheeks, in throat, down to stomach, in bowels.

Heat, with coryza, evenings, alternating with cold, and '^flitting heat over the whole body, and thirst, evenings

Heat and thirst after coldness

After eating onions, he feels as after taking cold ; feverish, especially evenings, with heat in the face ; tongue and mouth feel burnt and dry, without thirst; drinks only a small quantity, with restlessness in all the limbs, so that he cannot hold them still ; the next day the tongue is coated

Heat, without thirst, at 2 a.m., disappears mornings, worse again after breakfast

Unusual sweating while working

Sweat breaks put after larger doses, in three cases,l

Sweat in axilla and palnis

Copious sweat,l

(Internal fever always produced and renewed from too much walking. Wakes nights at 2 A.M., with excited pulse; cannot sleep again till morning ; without any chill, only heat without thirst ; disappears mornings, but is worse again for a few hours after breakfast ; afterwards very much prostrated ; Phosph., without result; Cepa cured

Sleep and Dreams p. 159

With the sleepiness, near objects seem distant/.

Much yawning, with headache and pressure in stomach

Frequent internal, but not very deep, yawning (evenings) (first day)

Midnight, very sleepy, soon falling asleep ; not easily disturbed sleep (first day)/.

If one eats much, it causes lethargy, a deep overpowering sleep

Sopor

Excessive use causes sopor

Heavy sleep, sopor, lethargy, follow its use

Causes heavy dreams, especially in those who have been lately ill

Who will have pleasant dreams must eat a raw onion before going to sleep, without supper

Constant dreams of battles, fights, precipices, storms at sea, and difficulty in reaching the coast, of deep wells, and efforts to get out of them

Dreams of being near water two nights in succession

Restless sleep, with swarming dreams

Sleep disturbed by toothache

During sleep, teeth feel too long

Wakes at 2 a.m., with excited pulse ; can no more sleep

Mornings, after rising, sleepy and disinclined to work ; every day

Sleepy, mornings

On waking, nauseous taste

Conditions p. 159

Aggravation.

(Morning), Apathetic ; sleepy ; flatulence; erections, etc. ; dry throat and cough; pain in ankle.

(Afternoon, after icine and coffee). Confused and absent-minded, etc.

(Evening), *All catarrhal symj)to7ns and pains ; heat of face; eructation of wind; flashes of heat and thirst; pulse harder; pains in foot; heat and thirst; mucus behind choanse.

(Night), Passage of flatus.

(Nights, in bed). Shivers, etc.

(After midnight). Diarrhoea.

(In open air). Dropping from nose.

(In bed), Pain under breast-bone.

(Bending forward). Pain under breast-bone renewed.

(After breakfast). Dryness of soft palate.

(Breathing deeply). Sticking in side.

(Breathing cold air). Cough.

(In cold air), Coryza; pains in cheek and eye.

(After coffee). Eye symptoms; stomach-ache.

(After renewed eructations). Confusion of head.

(After eating). Pain in bowels.

(Lying), Pain in left side.

(Lying down). Roaring in ears.

(Motion), Passage of flatus, relieving stomach-ache.

(Motion of eyelids), Pain in temples

(Slight motion), Elbow-joint feels numb.

(On resting the arm in writing), Pain in left forearm, etc.

(In room) Lachrymation and running from nose.

(Sitting), Pains in bowels ; pain in pubic region.

(Sitting still), catarrhal troubles ; itching of the skin, etc.

(After long sitting), Pain in back below right shoulder.

(Eating warm soup). Toothache.

(After too much walking), Renewed paroxysm of intermittent fever.

(On ascending steps), Hil^s tired.

( Warmth), Toothache.

( Warm room, on returning to), Pressure in head, sneezing, etc.; toothache; twitchings in upper lid; lachrymation; headache; catarrhal troubles.

(Northeast wind and rainy weather),Olent catarrh.

(Northwest wind, riding in). Toothache.

Amelioration p. 159

(Afternoons and evenings). Often quite well.

(In open air), Vsxm?, in limbs; pressure in head; pain in head; twitching in upper lids; catarrhal troubles.

(Bathing), Heaviness in bowels.

(Cold), Toothache; pain in throat.

(In cold air). Pains in cheek.

(In cool room). Catarrhal troubles.

( Cold water). Toothache.

(Passage of flatus, on motion), Stomach-ache; pain in bowels.