Thuja Occidentalis

Arbor vitae · Abbrev.: THUJ

Abdomen

William Boericke 1922

Chronic diarrhoea, worse after breakfast. Discharges forcibly expelled ; gurgling sound. Brown spots. Flatu^ lence and distention; protruding here and there. Rumbling and colic. Constipation, with violent rectal pain, causing stool to recede. [5*7.; 5dn*c.] Piles swollen; pain worse sitting. Anus fissured; painful to touchy with warts. Movement as of something living [Crocus], without pain.

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Distended; indurations in

Chest

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worse, cold drinks. Asthma in children. [Nat. sulph.] Papilloma of

Compare

William Boericke 1922

Cupressus australis (sharp, prickling pain; general feeling of warmth; rheumatism and gonorrhoea). Cupressus Lawsoniana (acts like Thuja; terrible pains in the stomach), Sphingurus (falling out of hair from beard; pain in jaw-joint and zygoma) ; Ant. tart,; SiL; M aland, (vaccination) ; Medorrh. (suppressed gonorrhoea) ; Merc.; Cinnab,; Terebinth,: Juniperus; Sabin.; Sil.; Canth.; Cannab.; Nit, or.; Puls,; Arborin is a non-alcoholic preparation oi,, Thuja, Antidotes: Merc.: Camph,; Sabin, (warts). Complementary; Sabina: Ars.; Nat. sulph,,\ Silica. THUJA oca. —THYMOL — THYMUS SERPYLLUM 745

Dose

William Boericke 1922

Locally, for warts and excrescences, tincture, or cerate. Internally, tincture to thirtieth potency.

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Single high potencies traditionally, repeated rarely; watch for return of old discharge as sign of direction.

Extremities

William Boericke 1922

When walking, limbs feel as if made of wood or glass, and would break easily. Tips of fingers swollen, red, feel dead. Muscular twitchings, weakness and trembling.

Female

William Boericke 1922

Vagina very sensitive. [Berh.; Kreos.; Lyssin.] Warty excrescences on vulva and perineum. Profuse leucorrhoea; thick, greenish. Severe pain in left ovary and left inguinal region. Menses scanty, retarded. Polypi; fleshy excrescences. Ovaritis; worse left side, at every menstrual period. [Lach.]

Fever

William Boericke 1922

Chill, beginning in thighs. Sweat only on uncovered parts, or all over except head, when sleeping ; profuse, sour, smelling like honey. Orgasm of blood in the evening, with throbbing in the blood-vessels.

Guiding symptoms

William Boericke 1922

food. Cutting pain in epigastrium. Cannot' eat bnions. Flatulence; pain after food; sinking sensation in epigastrium before food ; thirst. Tea-drinking dyspepsia.

Head

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White, scaly dandruff; hair dry and falling; pimples near nose and mouth; chronic catarrh with greenish discharge.

Introduction

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Fixed ideas and sycotic overgrowth: oily skin, warty excrescences, and secrets held close — the vaccinated-and-overgrown constitution of tradition.

Larynx

William Boericke 1922

Chronic laryngitis. 744

Male

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History of gonorrhoea with sequelae; fig-warts; sweat only on genitals; chronic prostato-urethral irritation in the traditional frame.

William Boericke 1922

Inflammation of prepuce and glans; pain in penis. Balanitis, Gonorrhoeal rheumatism. Gonorrhoea (tincture). Pain and burning felt near neck of bladder, with frequent and urgent desire to urinate. Prostatic enlargement. [Ferr. pic.; Thiosinamium; Iad»; SabaL]

Mind

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Fixed ideas — of being fragile like glass, of someone walking beside her; secretiveness about real or imagined wrongs; hurried yet tires quickly; depression after emotional shocks kept private.

Modalities

William Boericke 1922

IVorsc, at night, from heat of bed ; at 3 A. M. and 3 f. m., from cold, damp air ; after breakfa.st ; coffee ; vaccination. Better, left side ; while drawing up a limb.

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Worse: 3 a.m. and afternoon, cold damp, vaccination history, onions, heat of bed. Better: motion, warmth, stretching limbs.

Relationships

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Complementary Sabina, Medorrhinum, Silicea; compare Nitric acid (sycotic fissures), Natrum mur (secretiveness).

Respiratory

William Boericke 1922

Dry, hacking cough in afternoon, with pain in pit of

Skin

William Boericke 1922

Polypi, tubercles, warts epithelioma, naeva, carbuncles; ulcers, especially in ano-genital region. Freckles and blotches. Perspiration sweetish, and strong. Dry skin, with brown spots. Zona; herpetic eruptions. Tearing pains in glands. Glandular enlargement. Nails crippled; brittle and soft. Eruptions only on covered parts; worse after scratching. Very sensitive to touch. Coldness of one side.

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Warts on hands and face, sometimes pedunculated; dry skin with brown spots; nails deformed and brittle.

Sleep

William Boericke 1922

Persistent insomnia.

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Wakes late feeling tired; talks and laughs in sleep; startling dreams of falling.

Stomach

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Stitches in

Text

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Acts on skin, blood, gastro-intestinal tract, kidneys, and brain. The main action of Thuja is on the skin and genitourinary organs, producing conditions that correspond with Hahnemann’s sycotic dyscrasia, whose chief manifestation is the formation of wart-like excrescences upon mucous and cutaneous surfaces — hg-warts and condy- 742

Urinary

William Boericke 1922

Urethra swollen, inflamed. Urinary stream split and small. Sensation of trickling after urinating. Severe cutting after, [5ar.y.] Frequent micturition accompanying pains. Desire sudden and urgent, but cannot be controlled. Paralysis sphincter vesicae.

References

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