- Allen HC — The keynotes that separate this remedy from its nearest neighbours.
“Onion (Liliaccae) Acute catarrhal inflammation of mucous membranes, with increased secretion. Catarrhal dull headache, with coryza; in open air; moving about. Neuralgic pains like a long thread; in face, head, neck, chest. Traumatic chronic neuritis; neuralgia of stump after amputation; burning and stinging pains…”
- Allen TF — A compiled symptom record drawing on proving reports and other named observations.
“Allium cepa, Willd. Nat. order , Liliaceæ. Common names , Onion; (Germ.) Zwiebel; (Fr.) Oignon. Preparation , Tincture from the red onion. Authorities. To mandragora we may join the excessive use of garlic, onions, and leeks, because all physicians consider them very injurious, as occasioning deeply corrupted…”
- Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“Red Onion Catarrhal headache, mostly in forehead; worse in warm room towards evening. Thread-like pains in face. Headache ceases during menses; returns when flow disappears. Red. Much burning and smarting lachrymation. Sensitive to light . Eyes suffused and watery; profuse, bland lachrymation, better in open air…”
- Boger (GA) — Which general headings this remedy belongs under — the analytical scaffolding.
“ACRIDITY, excoriations, etc. FINE PAINS, needle, splinter, thread or hair-like, etc. LARYNX AND TRACHEA SEASON, Spring SIDE, left to right”
- Boger (Syn) — Generals and modalities in a short analytical portrait rather than a symptom list.
“MUCOUS MEMBRANES: NOSE. EYES. Larynx. Bowels. Nerves. Left to right. WARM ROOM. Wet feet. Singing. Damp. N.E. Winds. Spring. Cool, open air. Bathing. Motion. Acute colds, catarrhs or neuralgias. Shooting pains; as fine as a thread. .................... Forehead aches; into eyes and face; > free coryza or menses…”
- Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Cepa. Common Red Onion. N. O. Liliaceæ. Tincture of the onion; or of whole fresh plant gathered from July to August. Anus, fissure of / Ascites / Catarrh / Cold / Coryza / Cough / Diarrhœa / Facial paralysis / Feet, easily galled / Hay-fever / Hernia / Influenza / Laryngitis / Panaritium / Pneumonia / Trauma / Whitlow…”
- Dunham — The method — how symptoms are weighed before a remedy is differentiated.
“THE COMMON RED ONION. WHY should not this peculiar and pungent vegetable, which contains notably phosphorus and sulphur, and of which the juice, even in the form of vapor, acts so promptly and so persuasively upon the conjunctiva and the Schneiderian membrane — why should it not produce physiological symptoms, and…”
- Guernsey — The leading characteristics — a compact bridge from repertory result to remedy study.
“Catarrhal conditions most decidedly lead the way to the useful employment of this remedy. All catarrhal symptoms and pains, as a rule, are worse in the evening. Lachrymation and running from the nose, worse in the room. Coughs are worse in cold air. Mental.--Very melancholy, often very anxious, with catarrh, dulness…”
- Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Common Onion. Liliaceæ. In use as a medicine since time immemorial. Among the Egyptians it was hung up in noxious corners, carried about with one, taken for the consequences of bad water, used for the sting of insects, animal poisons, even the bite of the mad dog ; it was applied as an irritant and to mature…”
- Hughes & Dake — The source evidence — provings and poisonings retained with their experimental context.
“ALLIUM CEPA. AUmm Cepa, Willd. Common onion, Nat. Ord., Liliactm. I. Pro^ingi, — 1. a. Dr. Herjno took on Nov. 13th 5 drops of tinct. twice at midday. Very soon, nausea ; a little latcr^ pain in r. 4th and 5th fingers, and small appcanmce of letters on becoming sleepy while reading. In 5 m. painful scmatioii from…”
- Kent — The mental and general picture — how Kent organizes the remedy’s historical symptom portrait.
“General features : Allium cepa is used principally for " colds." There are various phases of these " colds," in the nose, in the throat, in the larynx, in the bronchial tubes. The patient and all the phases of his " cold," his coryza, his Ia laryngitis, his cough, all his complaints, are aggravated by warmth, are…”
- Lippe (MM) — The strict Hahnemannian reading — the symptom picture without clinical interpretation.
“Melancholy. Fear that the pains would become unbearable. Dulness. Dull head-ache, with coryza; worse in the evening; better in the open air; but aggravated when returning to a warm room. Flow of (mild) tears. Redness of the eyes, with itching, burning and stinging, with inclination to rub them. Swelling around the…”
- Lippe (Red) — Keynotes with the most-trusted ones marked as red-line symptoms.
“Common name: red onion. HEADACHE, BETTER IN THE OPEN AIR (Apis, Ars., Bell., Coff., Ferr., Lyc., Puls.); GETS WORSE ON RETURNING TO A WARM ROOM (Apis, Carb-V., Kali-S., Phos., Plat., Puls., Seneg., Sep., Sulph.) (G.). HEADACHE, WITH CORYZA (Calc-S., Dulc., Euphr., Gels., Graph., Hep.) (C.). Headache ceases during…”
- Nash — The comparisons — the remedy set beside the ones it is most often confused with.
“Coryza with frequent sneezing and profuse acrid discharge, corroding upper lip and nose. Lachrymation also profuse but bland. (Euph. reverse.) Cold extends to the bronchi, with profuse secretion of mucus; coughing and much rattling (Chelidon.). Modalities: in open air (the coryza). Anyone who has cut up raw onions for…”
