Thuja Occidentalis

General

THUJA. [Thuja] Arbor vitae. Hahnemann. Coniferae.

Mind

► Cannot think, talks slowly, as if hunting for words ; uses wrong words. ► Fixed ideas : as if a strange person was at his side ; as if soul and body were separated ; as if made of glass ; as if a living animal were in abdomen. ► Insane women will not be touched or approached. ► Hurried, with ill humor ; talks hastily. ► Disinclined to talk, worse on awaking mornings. ► Feels as if she cannot exist any longer ; quiet ; shunning everybody. ► Extremely scrupulous about least thing. ► Dissatisfied, quarrelsome ; overexcited, angry at trifles. ► Music causes weeping, and trembling of feet.

Sensorium

► Vertigo : with eyes shut, ceases on opening them ; when rising from sitting ; on stooping ; looking upward or sideways.

Inner Head

► Tearing in forehead, temples and occiput ; worse at night. ► Pain in left frontal eminence as from a nail. ► Pressing in vertex, as from a nail ; worse afternoon and from 3 to 4 A.M. ; better in motion and after sweat. ► Boring through temples. ► Headache worse from sexual excesses ; overheating ; better from exercise in open air, looking upward and turning the head backward. ► Headache worse from tea.

Outer Head

► Scalp sensitive to touch or pressure of pillow ; better if rubbed ; violent burning, tearing, stitching pains, worse in warm bed. ► Eruption moist, corroding on occiput and temples ; worse from touch, better from rubbing. ► White, scaly dandruff ; hair dry and falling out. ► Sweat smelling like honey, mostly on uncovered parts. ► Wants head and face warmly wrapped.

Eyes

► Flames of light, mostly yellow ; looking into light of day, sees spots like bubbles of water moving. ► Amblyopia ; blurred sight better from rubbing ; aching back into the head. ► Acts prominently on the sclerotica ; useful in episcleritis, sclero-choroiditis anterior, and commencing scleral staphyloma. ► Iritis, with condylomata on the iris ; sharp sticking in the eye with much heat above and around the eye. ► Better when eyes are warmly covered ; if uncovered, feels as if a cold stream of air was blowing out through them ; but sometimes a dull aching in the eye is relieved in the open air. ► Granular lids, when granules are large, wart-like. ► Chronic conjunctivitis, worse whenever his night's rest is disturbed. ► Dry, bran-like tinea ciliaris ; lashes imperfect and irregular. ► Inflammatory softening of inner surface of lids. ► Excellent for tarsal tumors.

Ears

► Inner ear feels swollen, with increased hardness of hearing. ► Noise in ear as from boiling water. ► Stitches from neck into ear. ► Watery, purulent, otorrhoea, smelling like putrid meat.

Nose

► Smell in nose as of fish-brine. ► Coryza fluent out-doors, dry in the room. ► Blows out much thick, green mucus, mixed with blood and pus ; later brown scabs form ; nose sore ; red eruption on the alae, often moist ; the latter worse from excesses. ► Painful scabs in nostrils.

Face

► Red and hot, netted with veins ; circumscribed burning, red cheeks ; bloated, dropsical, erysipelatous. ► Skin hot and red, peels off when washed. ► Eruption leaves livid spots. ► Faceache, from left malar to ear, teeth, nose and head ; painful spots burn like fire, and are sensitive to the sun ; also, after checked eruption. ► Boring in left malar bone, relieved by touch. ► Skin of the face greasy.

Lower Face

► Lips pale, swollen, peeling off. ► White flat ulcers on inside of lips and in corners of mouth.

Teeth

► Decay at roots (as in sycosis), the crown remaining sound ; crumble, turn yellow. ► Toothache from tea ; also when better from cold water and worse in warm room. ► Gums swollen, inflamed, dark red in streaks ; with white suppurating margins.

Tongue, Etc

► Taste : sweet ; of putrid eggs, morning ; food seems not salt enough ; of bread, as if dry and bitter. ► Tongue swollen, worse right side. ► Bites the tongue frequently. ► Ranula bluish, surrounded by varicose veins ; jelly-like or grey.

Mouth

► Aphthae ; ulcers in the mouth.

Throat

► Feels raw, dry, as if from a plug, or as if constricted when swallowing. ► Much mucus in throat, hawked up with difficulty. ► Swallowing painful, especially of saliva. ► Mucous tubercles in the fauces.

Desires And Aversions

► Craving alternates with want of appetite. ► Thirst, especially at night ; longs for cold food and drink.

Eating And Drinking

► While eating : 16. After breakfast : 20. Drinking : 17 ; cold water : 28. Eating or drinking cold things : 27. Tea : 10, 48. Coffee : 20. Fat food : 20. Onions : 20.

Nausea And Vomiting

► Eructations : rancid, or acid ; of air, while eating. ► Vomiting of mucus, or greasy substances.

Stomach

► The fluid he drinks falls audibly into stomach. ► Pit of stomach swollen ; sensitive. ► Indurations in the stomach.

Hypochondria

► Stitches in hypochondria, now right, then left.

Abdomen

► While sitting, stitching in abdomen, as from needles. ► Upper part of abdomen drawn in. ► Flatulence, as if an animal were crying in abdomen. ► Abdomen big, puffed ; protrudes here and there, as from the arm of a foetus ; motions therein, as if it contained something alive (in old maids). ► Ileus ; spasmodic stricture, as if something alive was pushing out. ► Soreness of the navel. ► Painful swelling of inguinal glands.

Stool, Etc

► Stool pale ; yellow, watery, expelled forcibly, with much noisy flatus, with blood ; oily or greasy ; gurgling, like water from a bung-hole. ► Diarrhoea : daily after breakfast ; after vaccination ; fat food ; onions ; or coffee. ► Ineffectual urging, with erections. ► Stool in hard balls ; obstinate constipation, from inactivity or intussusception. ► Hemorrhoids : during stool pains are so great she has to desist ; burning violently while walking ; anus fissured ; sensitive to touch ; often with warts. ► Abrasions of the anus ; oozing of fluid from the anus.

Urine

► Kidneys inflamed ; feet swollen. ► Stitches from rectum to bladder. ► Bladder feels paralyzed ; has no power to expel urine. ► Frequent urging, with profuse flow, more toward and in the evening ; with stitches in urethra. ► Involuntary urination at night, or when coughing. ► After urination, feels as if a drop were running down urethra. ► Continued urging ; passes a few drops of blood. ► Wants to pass water, but feels as if a tape prevented. ► Urine : too frequent and too copious ; contains sugar, foams ; dark red in the morning ; deposits a brown mucus ; with dark, cloudy sediment, in rheumatism. ► Burning, smarting in urethra.

Male Sexual Organs

► Nightly painful erections, causing sleeplessness. ► Round, unclean, elevated ulcers, surrounded with redness ; moist, painful. ► Chancres, with pains, as from a splinter sticking. ► Gonorrhoea : scalding, when urinating ; urethra swollen, urinal stream forked ; discharge yellow, green, watery ; often with warts ; with red erosions on the glands. ► Checked gonorrhoea, causing : articular rheumatism ; prostatitis ; sycosis ; impotence. ► Swelling of the prepuce. ► Sycotic, moist excrescences on prepuce and glans. ► Left testicle drawn up. ► Aching in testes, as if contused, worse when walking. ► Sweetish-smelling sweat on the scrotum.

Female Sexual Organs

► Embrace prevented by extreme sensitiveness of vagina. ► Menses too short and too early ; preceded by profuse sweat. ► Erosions at the os uteri, like aphthae. ► Mucous leucorrhoea. ► Cauliflower excrescences, bleeding easily and offensive. ► Left ovary inflamed, worse at each menstrual nisus ; distressing pain, burning when walking or riding ; must lie down. ► Pains in vulva and perineum ; cramp when rising from a seat ; erysipelas vulvae. ► Condylomata, moist, suppurating, stinging and bleeding. ► Erectile tumors, with burning.

Pregnancy

► Child moves so violently it awakens her, and causes cutting in bladder, with urging to urinate ; pains in left sacro-iliac articulation, running into groin. ► Abortion, at the third month. ► Labor-pains weak and ceasing.

Larynx

► Sensation as of a skin in larynx.

Breathing

► Short-breathed : from mucus in the trachea ; from fulness and constriction in hypochondria and upper abdomen. ► Asthma worse at night with red face ; coughing spells or sensations of adhesions of lungs.

Cough

► Evenings, after lying down, sputum is loose and easier when he turns from the left to the right side ; only during the day, or in the morning after rising ; as soon as he eats or drinks anything cold. ► Sputa : green, taste like old cheese.

Lungs

► Spasm of lungs from drinking cold water. ► Stitches in chest from drinking anything cold.

Heart And Pulse

► Palpitation : periodical, in rest or motion ; from ascending ; anxious, when awaking, mornings ; audible, with violent congestion to the chest. ► Violent pulsation in evening. ► Pulse, full accelerated, evening ; slow and weak, morning.

Outer Chest

► Skin on clavicles blue.

Neck And Back

► Cervical glands swollen. ► Skin on neck brown, greasy. ► Burning from small of back to between scapulae. ► Pulsating in the back. ► Spine curved, stands bent forward ; pot-bellied. ► Cramp-like pain in lumbar region after long standing ; when attempting to walk, feels as if he would fall.

Upper Limbs

► Herpes on the elbow. ► Finger tips : erysipelatous, when tingling ; numb and cold, as if dead.

Lower Limbs

► Hip-joint feels relaxed, when walking, leg feels as if made of wood. ► Hip aches, leg becomes elongated. ► Tips of toes red and swollen. ► Fetid sweat on toes. ► Suppressed foot-sweat. ► Nets of veins, as if marbled, on soles of feet.

Limbs In General

► Stitches in limbs and joints. ► Joints crack when limb is stretched. ► Nails crippled, or brittle, or soft. ► Rheumatism, with numb feeling ; worse in warmth, from moving at night, after 12 P.M. ; better from cold and after sweating.

Position, Etc

► Motion : 3, 29, 34. Exercise : 3. Walking : 20, 22, 23, 31, 35, 40. Ascending : 29. Rising : 23, 27. Stands bent forward : 31. Stooping : 2. Long standing : 31. Looking upward or sideways : 2, 3. Turning head backward : 3. Limb stretched : 34. Lying : 27 ; on left side : 37. Turning from left to right side : 17. Must lie down : 23. Parts lain on : 37. Sitting : 19. Rest : 5, 29.

Nerves

► Limbs go to sleep. ► Sensation of lightness of body when walking. ► Paralysis of one side. ► Jerks of the upper part of the body. θ Chorea. ► Debility worse mornings. ► Nervous symptoms accompany or depend upon affections of skin or mucous membranes ; hence, neuralgia from checked eruptions ; from suppressed gonorrhoea, etc. See : 48.

Sleep

► Heavy, cannot get awake mornings. ► Sleeplessness ; sees apparitions on closing the eyes ; parts lain on painful ; from heat and restlessness ; from mental depression. ► Dreams anxious when sleeping on left side.

Time

► Morning : 1, 11, 20, 27, 28, 36, 37, 40. Afternoon : 3, 40. Evening : 21, 27, 29, 40. Night : 3, 5, 14, 21, 22, 26, 33. After midnight : 34, 40. 3 to 4 A.M. : 3. Day : 5, 27.

Temperature And Weather

► Sun : 8. Warmth : 34, 37. Warm wraps : 4, 5. Warm bed : 4. Room : 7. Covered parts : 40, 46. Uncovered parts : 4, 5, 40. Out-doors : 7. Open air : 3, 5. Cold : 34. Washing : 8.

Chill, Fever And Sweat

► Chill : it attacks mostly evenings ; on left side, which feels cold to the touch ; after 12 P.M. and in the morning, without thirst ; internal, with external heat and violent thirst ; then sweat. ► Heat : mornings, chills afternoons ; evenings, mostly in face ; dry of covered parts ; burning, in the face, without redness. ► Sweat : only on covered parts ; general, except the head ; when walking in the morning, mostly on the head ; during sleep, stops when he awakens ; oily, fetid, smelling sweat.

Attacks

► Periodically : 29. Third month : 24.

Sides

► Left : 3, 8, 22, 23, 24, 29, 40. Right : 11. Right to left : 18.

Tissues

► Emaciation and deadness of affected parts. ► Sycosis. ► Affects prominently epithelia, first causing hardening, hypertrophy ; then softening. ► Indurations ; later, softening. ► Oedema about the joints. ► Flesh feels as if beaten off the bones.

Contact, Injuries, Etc

► Touch : 1, 4, 8, 20, 40. Pressure : 4. Rubbing : 4, 5. Scratching : 46. Riding : 23.

Skin

► Looks dirty ; brown here and there ; brown-white spots. ► Pemphigus, painful. ► Hair thin, grows slowly, splits. ► Zona. ► Epithelioma. ► Eruptions, only on covered parts, burn violently after scratching. ► Bleeding fungous growths. ► White, scaly, dry, mealy herpes. ► Naevus. ► Condylomata ; warts, seedy, pediculated ; moist, mucous tubercles. ► Ulcers flat, with bluish-white bottom. ► Blood boils on the back. ► Small pox, stage of maturation. ► Bad effects of vaccination : emaciation ; sleeplessness ; diarrhoea ; restlessness ; trembling ; neuralgia ; paresis, etc.

Relationship

► Thuja follows well after : Mercur., Nitr. ac. Complementary to Silic. ► Thuja antidotes : abuse of tea ; Mercur., Sulphur, Iodium, Nux vom. ► Antidote to Thuja : Chamom., for nightly toothache ; Coccul., for the fever ; also, Camphor., Mercur., Pulsat., Sulphur. ► Cinnab. is preferable for warts on prepuce. ► Compare with Spigel., Coccinella (both in tic douleureux). ► Asaf. (nervous ailments from checked skin symptoms). ► Ant. tart, develops the variola-pustule ; Thuja dries it up.