Thuja Occidentalis
Arbor vitae · Abbrev.: THUJ
Abdomen
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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Dry, hacking cough in afternoon, with pain in pit of
Skin
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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
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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
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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
This monograph is an original summary faithful to the classical tradition. It condenses material from these public-domain sources:
- James Tyler Kent, Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica (1905)Primary remedy pictures; characteristic mental and general symptoms. · Public domain (USA, pre-1930 publication)
- William Boericke, Pocket Manual of Homeopathic Materia Medica and Repertory (1927)Reproduced here in full — the complete classical repertory-style monographs. · Public domain (USA, pre-1930 publication)
- Constantine Hering, The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica (1879–1891)Confirmed symptom aggregates behind the section organization. · Public domain
- Timothy Field Allen, Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica (1874–1879)Provings background referenced by the verification tradition. · Public domain
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