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Thuja occidentalis

Arbor vitae

41 health issues Boericke 1927

Main symptoms

  • Acts on skin, blood, gastro-intestinal tract, kidneys, and brain.
  • Moist mucous tubercles.
  • Bleeding fungus growths.
  • Naevus.
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  • 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.
  • Sycotic pains, i.e., tearing in muscles and joints, worse at rest, better in dry weather, worse damp humid atmosphere; lameness.
  • Complaints from moonlight.
  • Left-sided and chilly medicine.
  • Variola, aborts the pustule and prevents the suppurating fever.

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Mind & mood

  • Fixed ideas, as if a strange person were at his side; as if soul and body were separated; as if something alive in abdomen.
  • Emotional sensitiveness; music causes weeping and trembling.

What makes it better or worse

Worse

At nightFrom heat of bedAt 3 a.m. And 3 p.m.From coldDamp airAfter breakfastFatCoffeeVaccination

Better

Left sideWhile drawing up a limb

Symptoms by body part

Head

Pain as if pierced by a nail. Neuralgia from tea. Left-sided headache. White, scaly dandruff; hair dry and falling out. Greasy skin of face.

Eyes

Ciliary neuralgia; iritis. Eyelids agglutinated at night; dry, scaly. Acute and subacute inflammation of sclera. Sclera raised in patches, and looks bluish-red. Large, flat phlyctenules; indolent. Recurring episcleritis. Chronic scleritis.

Ears

Chronic otitis; discharge purulent. Creaking when swallowing. Polypi.

Nose

Chronic mucus discharge; thick, green mucus; blood and pus. On blowing nose, pain in teeth. Ulceration within the nostrils. Dryness of nasal cavities. Painful pressure at root.

Mouth

Tip of tongue very painful. White blisters on side close to root, painfully sore. Teeth decay next to gums; very sensitive; gums retract. Drinks fall audibly into stomach. Ranula; varicose veins on tongue and mouth. Pyorrhoea alveolaris.

Stomach

Complete loss of appetite. Dislike for fresh meat and potatoes. Rancid belching after fat food. Cutting pain in epigastrium. Cannot eat onions. Gas; pain after food; sinking sensation in epigastrium before food; thirst. Tea-drinking indigestion.

Abdomen

Distended; indurations in abdomen. Chronic diarrhoea, worse after breakfast. Discharges forcibly expelled; gurgling sound. Brown spots. Gas and distension; protruding here and there. Rumbling and colic. Constipation, with violent rectal pain, causing stool to recede. Anus fissured; painful to touch with warts. Movements as of something living, without pain.

Urinary

Urethra swollen inflamed. Urinary stream split and small. Sensation of trickling after urinating. Severe cutting after. Frequent micturition accompanying pains. Desire sudden and urgent, but cannot be controlled.

Male

Inflammation of prepuce and glans; pain in penis. Balanitis. Gonorrhoeal joint and muscle pain. Chronic induration of testicles. Pain and burning felt near neck of bladder, with frequent and urgent desire to urinate. Prostatic enlargement.

Female

Vagina very sensitive. Warty excrescences on vulva and perineum. Profuse white vaginal discharge; thick, greenish. Severe pain in left ovary and left inguinal region. Menses scanty, retarded. Polypi; fleshy excrescences. Ovaritis; worse left side, at every menstrual period. Profuse perspiration before menses.

Respiratory

Dry, hacking cough in afternoon, with pain in pit of stomach. Stitches in chest; worse, cold drinks. Papilloma of larynx. Chronic laryngitis.

Extremities

When walking, limbs feel as if made of wood or glass, and would break easily. Tips of fingers swollen, red, feel read. Muscular twitchings, weakness and trembling. Cracking in joints. Pain in heels and tendo- Achilles. Nails brittle. Ingrowing toe nail.

Skin

Polypi, tubercles, warts epithelioma, naeva, carbuncles; ulcers, especially in ano-genital region. Freckles and blotches. Perspiration sweetish, and strong. Dry skin, with brown spots. Zona; herpetic rashes. Tearing pains in glands. Glandular enlargement. Nails crippled; brittle and soft. Rashes only on covered parts; worse after scratching. Very sensitive to touch. Coldness of one side. Sarcoma; polypi. Brown spots on hands and arms.

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. Orgasm of blood in the evening, with throbbing in the blood-vessels.

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