THUYA OCCIDENTALIS
By C.M. Boger — A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica
REGION
- Mucous membranes: GENITO-URINARY. Intestines.
- Mind.
- Nerves.
- Occiput.
- Glands.
- SKIN.
- Left side; ovary.
WORSE
- COLD DAMP.
- Heat; of bed.
- Periodically: 3 A.M. Yearly. Increasing moon. During menses.
- Urinating.
- Gonorrhœa.
- Syphilis.
- Mercury.
- Vaccination.
- Tea.
- Onions.
BETTER
- Warm: Wind. Air. Wrapping head.
- Free secretions.
- Sneezing.
- Motion.
- Crossing legs.
- Touch.
- Exhausted
and soft. Great prostration. Rapid emaciation. Soft, exuberant, fungoid tissue; polypi; condylomata; warts, pediculated, black, suppressed, etc. Sycotic, hydrogenoid or lymphatic constitution. Foul, acrid, musty, rancid or sweetish odors. Oily stool, skin or sweat. Trickling; in urethra. Burning, sticking, numbing, drawing or wandering pains, < warmth. Rheumatism. Jerkings, of spinal origin. Parts look dead. .................... Ill-humored; sad; loathes life. Illusions, then fixed ideas; of fragility; of a live thing internally; of some one at his side; of being in hands of a stronger power, etc. Hasty and anxious; over trifles. Can't concentrate. Neurasthenia; prostatic. Vertigo; as if in a swing. Tearing or like a nail in l. head. Neuralgia. Dry, split hair. Eyes blood red; full of tears; stand open. Sclerotitis. Jagged iris. Photopsies, beyond visual field. Bloody scabs or briny odor in nose. Epistaxis. Face, pale, waxy, shiny; dark under eyes; spiderlets on. Boring in zygomæ. Teeth decay at edge of gums; gnawing pains, < cold. Ranula. Mucus in choanæ. Noisy swallowing or belching. Rancid or greasy eructations. Pushings in abdomen. Cutting squeezing in lower bowels, groins, bladder or urethra. Ileus. Gurgling in bowels; then painless, watery, grass green stools. Stools gurgle or pop out; < breakfast. Stools, of hard, black lumps mixed with gushing water; hurried; explosive; spraying; gassy. Moist anus or perineum. Urine burns; dribbles; foul; copious; frequent; must wait. Pain from l. kidney to epigastrium, < motion. Forward, cutting in urethra on urinating. Lithæmia. Offensive genitals. Testes seem bruised. Prepuce puffed; sloughing. Gonorrhœa. Chordee. Tearing in ovaries (l). Itching, sensitive vagina. Short, difficult breathing. Asthma. Cough by day only. Expectorates easier lying. Cheesy sputum. Anxious palpitation. Retracted nipples. Chest pains take various directions. Back; throbs; pressure over kidneys; atrophy of long muscles. Cracking joints. Numb fingers, on waking at night (Nat-m.). Crawling or inflamed finger or toe tips. Hips give way; limbs feel paralyzed. Restless knees. . Foul, acrid foot-sweat. brown; ; ; hairy. Eruptions itch or burn violently from cold bathing. Moist, foul polypi. Prurigo. Nævi. Bluish white ulcers. Stinging, jumping out feeling. Itch. Blood-boils on back. , with sunken apices. Nails ribbed, soft, brittle, crumbling, discolored or distorted. Sleepless when on l. side. Dreams of the dead. Shaking chill, with yawning; < urinating; not > heat. Heat rises into chest; , nosebleed or cough. Sweat on bare parts; with dry heat on covered ones; with cold hands, > washing; ; gushing, < company; foul; pungent; staining.
Complementary: Nat-m. Nit-ac. Sabi. Sil.
Related: Merc. Nit-ac. Sabi.