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. Painful soles. Foul, acrid foot-sweat. Skin brown; spotted; dirty; 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. Foul pustules, 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; with icy hands, nosebleed or cough. Sweat on bare parts; with dry heat on covered ones; with cold hands, > washing; profuse on genitals; gushing, < company; foul; pungent; staining.

Complementary: Nat-m. Nit-ac. Sabi. Sil.

Related: Merc. Nit-ac. Sabi.

Thuya Occidentalis across the other classic books

Thuya Occidentalis appears in 12 of the 13 classic books on Similia. Each was written to do a different job — here is what each adds on this remedy, with the opening of its entry.

Allen HC — The keynotes that separate this remedy from its nearest neighbours.
“Tree of Life; White Cedar. (Coniferae) Adapted to hydrogenoid constitution of Granvogl, which is related to sycosis as effect is to cause. Thuja bears the same relation to the sycosis of Hahnemann - fig warts, condylomata and wart-like excrescences upon mucous and cutaneous surfaces - that Sulphur does to psora or…”
Allen TF — The raw proving record — symptoms as the provers reported them, unedited.
“Thuja occidentalis, L. Natural order , Coniferæ. Common names , Arbor vitæ; (G.), Lebensbaum. Preparation , Tincture of the green twigs. Authorities. ( 1 to 11 , from Hahnemann, R. A. M. L., 5).”
Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“Arbor vitæ Acts on skin, blood, gastro-intestinal tract, kidneys, and brain. Its relation to the production of pathological vegetations condylomate, warty excrescences, spongy tumors is very important. Moist mucous tubercles. Bleeding fungus growths. Nævus. Excess of venosity. The main action of Thuja is on the skin…”
Boger (GA) — Which general headings this remedy belongs under — the analytical scaffolding.
“ALIVE, SENSATIONS (COMP. FORMICATION) BLOOD VESSELS. BLUISH, purple, livid, etc. BREAKING, broken, brittle, etc. BROWNISH, rusty, etc. CHILLED, cold becoming, while hot, by ices, uncovering a part, as head, hand-hands, etc. in cold water, etc.., Agg. COMPANY, crowds, etc. Agg., Craves solitude, etc. COMPRESSION…”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“occidentalis. Arbor Vitæ. N. O. Coniferæ (Tribe, Cupressineæ). Tincture of the fresh green twigs. Abdomen, distended / Abortion / Angina pectoris / Anus, fistula in; fissure of / Asthma / Balanitis / Cancer / Catalepsy / Chorea / Clavus / Condylomata / Constipation / Convulsions / Coxalgia / Diarrhœa / Disparunia /…”
Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Arbor Vitæ. Coniferæ. The tincture is prepared from the fresh twigs. Introduced by Hahnemann, proved by himself, Fr. Hn., Franz, Gross, Hartmann, Haynel, Hempel, Langhammer, Teuthorn, Wagner, and Wislicenus, R. A. M., vol. 5 ; Wolf, Hom. Erf., vol. 2, p. 203 ; Schreter, A. H. Z., vol. 62, pp. 66 and 68 ; Austrian…”
Kent — The mental and general picture — who the patient is, before what the remedy cures.
“Thuja Occidentalis The general appearance of the Thuya subject, if he has a characteristic picture, is that of a waxy, shiny face, it looks as if he had been smeared over with grease; and is often transparent, he is a sickly looking individual, looks as if entering upon some cachexia. This is often the case in the…”
Lippe (KN) — Only the symptoms Lippe considered reliable enough to prescribe on.
“Twitching, especially in the upper part of the body. Stinging in the limbs and joints. The limbs go to sleep. Aversion to motion. One-sided complaints (left side). The heat of the bed aggravates many symptoms. An evening aggravation. Amelioration by rest. Moistening and suppurating sycotic excrescences. Perspiration…”
Lippe (MM) — The strict Hahnemannian reading — the symptom picture without clinical interpretation.
“Fixed ideas; as if a strange person were at his side; as if the soul were separated from the body; as if the body, especially the limbs, were of glass and would break easily; as if a living animal were in the abdomen. In reading and writing lie uses wrong expressions. Talks hastily, and swallows words…”
Lippe (Red) — Keynotes with the most-trusted ones marked as red-line symptoms.
“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)…”
Nash — The comparisons — the remedy set beside the ones it is most often confused with.
“Hahnemann’s chief anti-sycotic. Proliferations or pathological vegetations: condylomata, polypi, warts, sycotic excrescences, etc. Bad effects following vaccination; never well since. Especially suited to the treatment of ailments following suppressed gonorrhœa. Urethritis in sycotic patients, which Cannabis sat. does…”

Thuya Occidentalis in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Thuya Occidentalis in 4,962 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in EXTREMITIES (957), HEAD (386), GENERALITIES (328), BACK (262), MIND (260).

ABDOMEN - ALIVE,sensation of something - right iliac region
EAR - PAIN - urine profuse
EXTREMITIES - ERUPTION - Hand - back of - excrescences,wart-like
EXTREMITIES - FELON (Onychia,Paronychia,Panaritium,etc.)beginning in nail - runaround - vaccination,after
EXTREMITIES - HEAT - Thigh - cold - hands and feet,with
EXTREMITIES - SUPPURATION - Fingers - after vaccination
HEAD - PAIN, - nail,as from a - Forehead - eminence,frontal,left
HEAD - PAIN, - nail,as from a - Sides - dinner,after
HEAD - PAIN, - nail,as from a - Sides - pressure amel.
STOMACH - PAIN - vaccination,after
FACE - PAIN - night - 3 a.m.
FACE - WARTS - chill
ABDOMEN - MOVEMENTS in - fist of a foetus,like
BACK - PAIN - sore - bruised - beaten - Spine - spinal irritation - Lumbar region - stepping - when
EAR - POLYPUS - soft,easily bleeding
EXTREMITIES - SWELLING - Upper Arm - vaccination
NOSE - WARTS
RECTUM - CONDYLOMATA - flat
TEETH - CARIES,decayed,hollow - roots,at
MALE GENITALIA - CONDYLOMATA - Scrotum

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