Plant
Thuja Occidentalis
Arbor vita
Repertory abbreviation: Thuj.
Acts on skin, blood, gastro-intestinal tract, kidneys, and brain. The main action of T'huja is on the skin and genito- urinary organs, producing conditions that correspond with Hahnemann's sycotic dyscrasia, whose chief ani- festation is the formation of wart-like excrescences upon mucous and cutaneous surfaces --- fg-warts and condy- lomata. Has a specific antibacterial action, as in gon- orrhoea and vaccination. S Suppressed gonorrhoea, sal- pingitis. Ill-effects of vaccination. Hydrogenoid con- stitutions, whose blood is morbidly hydroscopic, so that damp air and water are inimical. [Nat.
Mind
Fixed ideas, as if a strange person were at his side; as if soul and body were separated; as if something alive in abdomen. [Croc.] Emotional sen-- sitiveness; music causes weeping and trembling.
Head
Pain as if pierced by a nail. [Coff.; Ign.] Neuralgia from tea. [Sele.] Left-sided headache. White, scaly dandruff ; hair dry and falling out.
Eyes
Ciliary neuralgia; iritis. Eyelids agglutin- ated at night; dry, scaly. Styes and tarsal tumors. [Staph.] Acute and subacute inflammation of sclera. Sclera raised in patches, and looks bluish-red. Large, Aat phlyctenules; indolent. Recurring episcleritis. Chronic scleritis.
Ears
Chronic otitis; discharge purulent. Creak- ing when swallowing. Polypi.
Nose
Chronic catarrh; thick, green inucus; blood and pus. On blowing nose, pain in teeth. Ulceration within the nostrils. Dryness of nasal cavities. Painful pressure at root.
Mouth
Tip of tongue very painful. White blisters on side close to root. painfully sore. Teeth decay next to guns, very sensitive; guns retract. Drinks fall audibly y into stomach. Kanula; varicose veins on tongue and mouth. [mb.] Pyorrhcea alveolaris.
Stomach
Complete loss of appetite. Dislike for fresh meat and potatoes. Rancid eructations after fat food. Cutting pain in epigastrium. Cannot' eat onions. Flatulence; pain after food; sinking sensation in epi- gastrium before food ; thirst. Tea-drinking dyspepsia.
Abdomen
Distended; indurations in abdomen. Chronic diarrhoea, worse after breakfast. Discharges forcibly expelled; gurgling sound. Brown spots. Flatu- lence and distention; protruding here and there. Rum- bling and colic. Constipation, with violent rectal pain, causing stooi to recede. [Sil.; Sanic.] Piles swollen; pain worse sitting. Anus fissured ; painful to touch, with warts.. Movement as of something living [Crocus], without pain.
Urinary
Urethra swollen, inflamed. Urinary stream split and small. Sensation of trickling after urinating. Severe cutting after. [Sars.] Frequent micturition accompanying pains. Desire sudden and urgent, but cannot be controlled. Paralysis sphincter vesica.
Male
Inflammation of prepuce and glans; pain in penis. Balanitis. Gonorrheal rheumatism. Gonor- rhoea (tincture). Pain and burning felt near neck of bladder, with frecuent and urgent desire to urinate. Prostatic enlargement. [Ferr. pic.; Thiosinamium; Iod.: Sobal.)
Female
Vagina very sensitive. [Berb.; Kreos.; Lyssin.] Warty excrescences on vulva and perineum. Profuse leucorrhoea; thick, greenish. S Severe pain in left ovary and left inguinal region. Menses scanty. retarded. Polypi; fleshy excrescences. Ovaritis; worse left side, at every menstrual period. [Lach.]
Respiratory
Dry, hacking cough in afternoon, with pain in pit of stomach. Stitches in chest; worse, cold drinks. Asthma in children. [Nat. sulph.] Papilloma of larynx. Chronic laryngitis.
Extremities
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.
Skin
Polypi, tubercles, varts epithelioma, nzva, 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.
Sleep
Persistent insomnia.
Fever
Chill, beginning in thighs. Sweat only on uncovered parts, or all over except head, when sleeping; profuse, sour, smeiling like honey. Orgasm of blood in the evening, with throbbing in the blood-vessels.
Modalities
Worse, at night, from heat of bed; at 3 A. M. and 3 p. M., from cold, damp air; after breakfast ; coffee; vaccination. Better, left side; while drawing up a limb.
Relationships
Compare: Cuprcssus austraiis (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.; Maland. (vaccination); Mledorrh. (suppressed gonorrhoea) ; Merc.; Cinnab.; Terebinth.: Juniperus; Sabin.; Sil.; Canth.: Cannab.: Nit. ac.; Puls.; Arborin is a non-alcoholic preparation of, Thuja. Antidotes: Merc.: Camph.; Sabin. (warts). Complementary : Sabina: Ars.; Nat. sulph.:. Silica.
Dose
Locally, for warts and excrescences, tinc- ture, or cerate. Internally, tincture to thirtieth potency.