Use in Skin Care and Remedies

In their first year onions sprout a crown of hollow tubular leaves with which they collect sunlight to store in the bulb. In their second year, using this stored power they develop a spherical flower head of inconspicuous blossoms which grows high in the air on a straight stalk. A polarity is thus formed between the cool, watery, earth-oriented bulb and the airy, light-oriented flower. The inconspicuous individual flowers are attended by the sulfur compounds which permeate the whole onion plant. These fiery compounds bearing light and warmth are in essence part of the flower. However, they transform and displace the flowery property away from the airiness of the flower to the liquid-earthiness of the root. This sulfuric aspect links the opposite poles of the onion. It stimulates the human metabolic processes, digestion and bile flow and harmonises the life processes. Congested fluids start to flow again, reminiscent of the flower sprouting from the congested bulb in the plant’s second year. Swelling due to inflammation subsides.

Fresh onions are used in WALA medicines. They are found for example in WALA Cartilago comp.*, which alleviates joint complaints; in WALA Mercurialis Salbe, an ointment for poorly healing wounds; WALA Narben Gel* for the treatment of scars; WALA Symphytum comp.*, an adjunct therapy e.g. for bone fractures; and Tendo/Allium Cepa comp.* which promotes healing in tendovaginitis (inflammation of the tendon sheath).


* Prescribing information for the preparations mentioned (the indications are derived from the anthroposophical understanding of man and nature):

Cartilago comp., Globuli velati
Indications: Harmonisation of the anabolic and catabolic forces, particularly in degenerative but also in chronic inflammatory joint disease, e.g. chronic degenerative joint disease (osteoarthritis), chronic inflammation of the joints (chronic arthritis).
Warning: This medicinal product contains sucrose and lactose.

Mercurialis Salbe (ointment)
Indications: Harmonisation of the interaction between sensitivity organisation and life organisation in the skin and subcutis in chronic inflammatory processes, suppurating, poorly healing wounds, eczema.
Warning: In rare cases arachis (peanut) oil and wool fat can cause local skin reactions (e.g. contact dermatitis).

Narben Gel (scar-treatment gel)
Indications: Stimulation of the structuring anabolic forces in scar, granuloma (nodule-like changes) and keloid formation of the skin.

Symphytum comp., Globuli velati
Indications: Stimulation of the structuring and form-giving processes in traumatic and inflammatory conditions of the bone and surrounding tissues, e.g. fractures, Sudeck's atrophy, inflammation of the outer layer of the bone (periostitis), tennis elbow (epicondylitis), repetitive strain injury (tendovaginitis).
Warning: This medicinal product contains sucrose and lactose.

Tendo/Allium cepa comp., Globuli velati
Indications: Stimulation of the processes of regeneration in conditions involving reactive inflammatory changes of boundary-forming bradytrophic tissues of the musculoskeletal system, e.g. repetitive strain injury (tendovaginitis), inflammation of the outer layer of the bone (periostitis), tennis elbow (epicondylitis).
Warning: This medicinal product contains sucrose and lactose.

* For information on risks and side-effects please read the pack insert and ask your doctor or pharmacist.