Thuja occidentalis

Common name: arbor vitae.

The leading anti-sycotic (the leading anti-psoric- Sulph.; the leading anti-syphilitic- Merc.) (N.).

Hydrogenoid constitution (Nat-S.) (B.).

One-sided complaints (Caust., Lach., Lyc.).

Aversion to motion (Bry.).

Useful in removing many of the symptoms of gonorrhœa (inferior to Medorrhinum)

Especially suited to the treatment of ailments following suppressed gonorrhœa (Puls., Sep., Staph.) (N.).

Twitching, especially in the upper part of the body.

Stinging in the limbs and joints (Apis, Kali-B., Sil.).

The limbs go to sleep (Anac., Nux-V., Puls.).

Painful swelling and redness of the points of the fingers.

BAD EFFECTS FOLLOWING VACCINATION; NEVER WELL SINCE (N.).

White dandruff (Merc., Sulph.) (N.).

Hair falling out or grows slowly and splits (N.).

VERTIGO, WHEN CLOSING THE EYES (Lach., Ther.) (A.).

Headache is of sycotic origin, with various symptoms (N.).

Intense stabbing pains in the head, driving the patient almost to distraction; must lie down (D.).

Sensation as though a nail were being driven into the vertex or frontal eminences (D.).

Headache, as if a convex button were pressed on the part; worse from sexual excesses, over-heating, or from tea-drinking (A.).

Chronic headache of sycotic or syphilitic origin (A.).

Styes on the eyelids (Calc., Puls., Sep.) (N.).

CHALAZAE OR TARSAL TUMOURS (Staph.) (N.).

Ophthalmia nenatorum (Arg-N., Puls.) (A.).

Large granulations, like warts or blisters on the eyelids (A.).

Eye symptoms are ameliorated by warmth and covering; if uncovered, feels as if a cold stream of air were blowing out through them (A.).

Discharge of pus from the ears (Calc., Graph., Puls., Sil.) (N.).

Polypi in the ears (Calc., Lyc., Puls.) (N.).

Eyelids agglutinated at night (Alum., Carb-S., Graph., Lyc., Sep.) (A.).

Eyelids become dry and scaly on the edges (Graph., Petr., Sep.) (A.).

Chronic otitis; discharge purulent, like putrid meat (A.).

RANULA (BLUISH) (Ambr., Calc., Merc., Nat-M., Nit-Ac., Plb., Staph.).

Teeth decay at the roots, the crown remaining sound; crumble, turn yellow (N.).

Toothache, worse from tea drinking (Chin., Coff., Ferr., Ign., Lach., Selen., Sep.) (K.).

On blowing the nose a pressing pain in the hollow tooth, or at the side of it (Bn.).

Dislike for fresh meat and potatoes (Br.).

Complete loss of appetite (Chin., Lyc., Puls., Sep.) (Br.).

Thirst, with a gurgling sound in the œsophagus on drinking (Ars., Hydro-Ac.) (D.).

Abdomen enlarged and puffed; protrudes here and there as if from the arm of a fœtus; movements and sensation as if something were alive; no pain (N.).

Fistula in ano (Berb., Calc-P., Sil.).

ANUS FISSURED OR SURROUNDED WITH CONDYLOMATA (Ant-C., Graph., Sil.) (N.).

Diarrhœa, especially from the effects of vaccination (N.).

LOOSE BOWELS (Aloe, Calc-P., Nat-S., Podo.).

Curative in frequent, small and painful bowel movements (Merc., Nux-V., Sulph.).

STOOL FORCIBLY EXPELLED (Calc-P., Gamb.); COPIOUS, GURGLING LIKE WATER FROM A BUNG-HOLE (Podo., Sulph.) (N.).

Oily stool (Bol., Iod., Pic-Ac.) (B.).

Constipation: Stools consist of hard, black, balls; stools large; and they recede after being partially expelled. (Sanic., Sil.) (N.).

Violent pains in the rectum compel cessation of effort (A.).

Piles swollen; pain most severe when sitting (A.).

Face has a greasy or shiny look (Nat-M.) (N.).

Diarrhœa, worse in the morning after break-fast, from coffee and onions, with rapid emaciation and exhaustion (D.).

COUGH BY DAY ONLY (Arg-M., Calc., Euph.) (B.).

Warts on the outside of the nose (N.).

Catarrh, with thick, green mucous discharge (Kali-B., Nat-S., Puls.) (N.).

Scabs form inside the nose (Graph., Sep.) (N.).

Troublesome, slight, long-lasting cough.

Asthma (Ant-T., Carbo-V., Nat-S.) (N.).

Short, difficult breathing (Sulph.) (B.).

Fixed ideas, as if a strange person were at his side; as if the soul and body were separated; that the body and particularly the limbs were made of glass, and will readily break; as if a living animal were in the abdomen; tells about being under the influence of a superior power (N.).

Insane women will not be touched or approached (N.).

Is always in a hurry (Arg-N.), talks hurriedly (Bell., Hep., Lach.), moves hurriedly, and is excitable (D.).

Imagines himself double or treble and scattered about (D.).

When walking the limbs feel as if made of wood (A.).

Emotional sensitiveness; music causes weeping and trembling (Br.).

Always chilly from least change of weather (Hep.) (A.).

Chill beginning in the thighs (Cedr., Cham., Rhus-T., Ther.) (K.).

Violent shaking chill, for a quarter of an hour, about 3 A.M., followed by thirst; then profuse perspiration all over except on the head (A.).

SHIVERING THROUGH AND THROUGH, FROM THE SLIGHTEST UNCOVERING OF THE BODY IN WARM AIR (A.).

Sweat when he sleeps, stops when he wakes (reverse of Samb.) (A.).

Profuse night-sweat; so that he changes his shirt several times at night (A.).

Sweat on the side not lain on (Benz., Sanic.) (A.).

Fetid or sour-smelling sweat at night (A.).

Flesh feels as if beaten, from the bones (Phyt.; as if scraped- Rhus-T.) (A.).

Dribbling urine (Bell., Clem., Staph.) (G.).

FORKED STREAM OF URINE (Canth., Caust., Merc., Merc-C., Petr., Rhus-T.) (K.).

Frequent micturition with the pains (Cann-S., Canth., Merc., Sep.) (N.).

Severe cutting at close of urination (Sars.).

Sensation after urinating, as if urine thickening in the urethra (A.).

URETHRITIS IN SYCOTIC PATIENTS (WHICH Cann-S. DOES NOT RELIEVE); STREAM SPLIT; CUTTING AFTER URINATION; DISCHARGE THICK (N.).

Long-lasting gleet after gonorrhœa (but inferior to Medorrhinum).

Red, smooth excrescences on the glans penis (Bt.).

Thuja bears the same relation to sycosis (figwarts, condylomata and wart-like excrescences upon the mucous and cutaneous surfaces) that Sulphur does to psora, or Mercury to syphilis (N.).

Chronic induration of the testicles (Aur., Clem.) (Br.).

Gonorrhœa suppressed by injections, and complicated with rheumatism or orchitis (Clem., Puls., Sil.) (D.).

Gonorrhœa with thin, greenish discharge (Merc.) and scalding urine (D.).

Hæmorrhage from the urethra after urination (Hep., Mezer., Puls., Sars., Sulph., Zinc.) (K.).

Perspiration, smelling like honey, on the genitals (A.).

Suppressed gonorrhœa causing articular rheumatism, prostatitis, impotence and many other constitutional troubles (A.).

Nocturnal erections (Canth., Phos.) (G.).

Retarded menstruation (Graph., Sep.) (Hg.).

Vagina is filled with warty excrescences (G.).

Voluptuous formication in the fossa navicularis (C.).

Chancroidal ulcer of the genitals (Nux-V.,) (R.).

Ovarian troubles (Apis, Coloc., Podo., Sep., Sulph.) (N.).

Distressing, burning pain in the left ovarian region when walking or riding; must sit or lie down (Croc., Ust.); worse at each menstrual nisus (A.).

Coition prevented by extreme sensitiveness of the vagina (Plat., prevented by dryness- Lyc., Lyss., Nat-M.) (A.).

Abortion at the end of third month (Sab., Sec.) (G.).

Profuse, mucous leucorrhœa, which is extremely acrid and excoriates the uterus, vulva and perineum (Bl.).

Nails brittle, distorted, crumbling, misshapen or soft (Ant-C., Graph.) (N.).

Bleeding fungous growths (N.).

EPITHELIOMA (Ars., Lach., Nit-Ac.) (N.).

Skin looks dirty (Psor., Sulph.) (A.).

Brown or brownish-white spots here and there on the skin (A.).

Eruptions only on covered parts: burn after scratching (A.).

SWEAT ONLY ON UNCOVERED PARTS, OR ALL OVER EXCEPT THE HEAD (N.).

PERSPIRATION OF THE UNCOVERED PARTS AND DRYNESS OF THE COVERED PARTS.

Of great usefulness in the cure of warts in any part of the body (Caust., Nit-Ac., Staph.).

Wart-shaped excrescences here and there, especially on hands and genitals (Staph.) (N.).

Large, seedy, pedunculated warts on the skin (A.).

Pathological vegetations, condylomata, polypi, etc. (N.).

Moistening and suppurating sycotic excrescences (Sil.).

AGGRAVATION: In the evening; from the heat of the bed; by extension; in cold, damp air; after vaccination; from excessive tea drinking; from narcotics; at night; at 3 A.M. and 3 P.M.; from tobacco; and from spirituous liquors.

AMELIORATION: By rest; by drawing up the limbs; from warmth; and in the open air.

RELATIONSHIP: Compare: Cann-S., Canth., Cop., Kali-S., Merc., Nat-S., Puls., Sep., Sil., Staph. and Sulph.

Follows well after: Med., Merc., and Nit-Ac.

Cinnab. is preferable for warts on the prepuce.

Complementary: Med., Nat-M., Sab. and Sil.

Antidotes: Camph., Merc. and Sil.