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Thuja Occidentalis
Thuja occidentalis · THUJ
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Origin Plant · Coniferae (Pinaceae (sensu lato; conifers are now split into Pinaceae, Cupressaceae, Taxaceae, etc.)) · Simple
Habitat Tribe, Cupressineae
ClarkePreparation Tincture of the fresh green twigs.
Sources 21 entries across 18 books: Boericke, Kent, Clarke, Hering, Allen …

Dose
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Locally, for warts and excrescences, tincture, or cerate. Internally, tincture to thirtieth potency.

Reason for useBoericke

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. Naevus. Excess of venosity. The main action of Thuja is on the skin and genito-urinary 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-fig-warts and condylomata. Has a specific antibacterial action, as in gonorrhoea and vaccination. Suppressed gonorrhoea, salpingitis. Ill-effects of vaccination. Sycotic pains, i.e, tearing in muscles and joints, worse at rest, better in dry weather, worse damp humid atmosphere; lameness. Hydrogenoid constitutions, whose blood is morbidly hydroscopic, so that damp air and water are inimical. Complaints from moonlight. Rapid exhaustion and emaciation. Left-sided and chilly medicine. Variola, aborts the pustule and prevents the suppurating fever. Vaccinosis, viz, inveterable skin troubles, neuralgia, etc.


▲ Worse at night, from heat of bed; at 3 am and 3 pm; from cold, damp air; after breakfast; fat, coffee; vaccination
▼ Better left side; while drawing up a limb

By regionBoericke
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). …
Head Pain as if pierced by a nail (Coff; Ign). Neuralgia from tea (Selen). Left-sided headache. White, scaly dandruff; hair dry and falling out. …
Eyes Ciliary neuralgia; iritis. Eyelids agglutinated at night; dry, scaly. Styes and tarsal tumors (Staph). Acute and subacute inflammation of sclera. …
Stomach Complete loss of appetite. Dislike for fresh meat and potatoes. Rancid eructations after fat food. Cutting pain in epigastrium. Cannot eat onions. …
Female Vagina very sensitive (Berb; Kreos; Lyssin). Warty excrescences on vulva and perineum. Profuse leucorrhoea; thick, greenish. …
Respiratory Dry, hacking cough in afternoon, with pain in pit of stomach. Stitches in chest; worse, cold drinks. Asthma in children (Nat sulph). …
Extremities When walking, limbs feel as if made of wood or glass, and would break easily. Tips of fingers swollen, red, feel read. …
Skin Polypi, tubercles, warts epithelioma, naevi, carbuncles; ulcers, especially in ano-genital region. Freckles and blotches. …
Sleep Persistent insomnia.
Fever Chill, beginning in thighs. Sweat only on uncovered parts, or all over except head, when sleeping; profuse, sour, smelling like honey. …

Books*
Antidoted by Camphora 4, Mercurius Solubilis 3, Chamomilla 2 +10
Complementary Sabina, Silicea Terra, Medorrhinum +4
Follows well Mercurius Solubilis, Nitricum Acidum, Medorrhinum +8
Compare Antimonium Tartaricum, Apis Mellifica, Cantharis Vesicatoria +46

* Number of books that state the relation, where more than one. Historical text from the classical materia medica (1828–1950). Not medical advice, and not a claim that any remedy works.
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