Allium Cepa

Questions

"What are the nasal and laryngeal symptoms of Allium cepa or the Onion ?

Watery, acrid discharge from the nose, with bland lachrymation ; raw feeling in larynx and throat, and tickling in larynx provoking cough; the larynx is so sore that it makes the patient wince to cough and brings tears to his eyes; it seems as if it would split open; great hoarseness. Worse in warm air. Give symptoms of Wyethia, another useful remedy for catarrhal troubles. Dryness of pharynx with constant desire to clear throat ; follicular pharyngitis, with a hot, burning feeling.

Hoarseness, pharyngitis in teachers and singers. What neuralgic symptoms has Allium cepa?

Neuralgias following amputations, and injuries of nerves with fine, shooting, thread-like pains; neuralgia of stumps.

What do we sometimes use Convallaria for ?

For dyspnoea due to heart disease with scanty urine: oedemas and dropsies from the same cause. Give the cough of Squills another member of the Liliaceae family. Violent cough with a great deal of mucus in the chest and expectoration; during the cough there is involuntary spirting of urine; the patient coughs a long time before a little mucus is raised, which gives relief; sharp, sticking • pains in side.

What are the head and eye symptoms of Paris quadrifolia ?

Sensation as if the eyes were drawn back into the head by strings; headache of spinal origin where the pains come up over the head from the occiput, and the head seems enormously large. Mention some Cryptogamous plants that we make use of. Lycopodium, Bovista, and Sticta pulmonaria.