Thuja.
NATIONAL JOURNAL OF HOMOEOPATHY 1995 May / Jun Vol IV No 3.
Tarkas P I.
Materia Medica.
` Thuj.
NUTRITION: G-1 Tract; AGGRAVATION G-U-tract Cold; damp
NERVES: brain (solar plexus) Wet cold application, uncovering
GLANDS: Kidneys (adrenal), Heat - bed, sun,
prostate Bright light
pituitary Moonlight
thyroid Draft of air
BLOOD: veins Periodically - daytime early
BONES morning, 1-4 am-pm night, 3-6
SKIN: epithelia am- pm night, midnight to
SIDE: left upper and right lower. morning, alternate days.
Moon - new, full, waxing, waning, annual, during menses.
Touch. Rest
Suppressed gonorrhoea; eruptions.
Vaccines; immunizers; sera; antibiotics; narcotics,
Mercury, Sulphur, Fertilizers.
Breakfast, Dinner. Tea,
Onions, Coffee.
Stress, Fright, Music,
Stretching, Straining, Urinating.
| Neurotic Hydrogenoid |
| Rhoeo-rheumatic. Calcareous |
| Hyperplasic - Paralytic |
AMELIORATION
Warm
air
moisture
stove
bath
wrapping,
Cool open air,
Dry weather
Cold (rheumatism)
Evening till midnight.
Free secretions
Pressure
Rubbing
Action
Continued motion
Walking in open air
Crossing legs.
HIGHLIGHTS
Nervous troubles, insomnia, paralyses, brain deterioration, atrophy, dementia, Alzheimers; especially after vaccinations, metabolic disorder or syco-syphilis or rickets, rheumatism and phthisical of psoro-syphilitic origin. Neurogenic troubles: colitis; diarrhoeas; ulcers. Base - Vaccinations: suppressed gonorrhoea; inherited syphilis (plus mercury); phthisical; abuse of tea.
After vaccinations - rickets; polio; scrofula; pleurisy; nephritis; calculi; rheumatism; conjunctivitis; digestive disorders; menstrual troubles. Invoked above all for hyperplasias.
Make-Up: Flabby; heavy trunk, thin limbs. Monstrous or shapeless (like Bufo). Puny. Obese, hirsute, pituitary type with warts, moles and a greasy face,. Manly, hirsute women. Neurotic. Cachectic. Lymphatic. Scrofulous. Hydrogenoid, chilly.
ACTION
Nervous phenomena with affections of skin or M M: neuralgias from suppressed gonorrhoea or eruptions. After vaccinations; chronic neuralgias, lethargy, paresis, a cachexy (the X - disease), neurasthenia, catalepsy, syringomyelia (Morvans disease), paraplegia, epilepsy.
NERVES
Jerkings of spinal origin, in circumscribed spots, Twitchings. Trembling, (intermittent, apprehensive) of hands after tea. Pains in the belly of muscles (like Cimi); with frequent micturition; localized or spreading. "The ultimate for all pains". (M B Desai).
weakness - Mornings; paretic; laziness; arms weaker than legs. Numbness rarely. Trickling sensation in urethra, chest. Ataxic gait.
TISSUES
Mucous membranes. Catarrhs. Discharges oily, (especially of face) mucopurulent, herring - brine, smelling, green.
BONES
Tearing pains. Softening, rickets, spinal curvature. Osteo-arthritis, pelvic reflex, periostitis. Rheumatic - myositis ossificans. Polyarthritis gout.
BLOOD
Abscesses. Suppuration; painless, pus offensive, thin. Sycosis is the mother of catarrhs and pus. Anaemia. Leukaemia. Swollen veins. Varicoses; marbling, especially - face (incipient sepsis). Vascular growths (carunculae). Aortic stenosis.
GLANDS
Enlarged. Pituitary dysfunction - poor digestion and mental deficiency. Exophthalmic goitre.
GROWTHS
After injury. Fatty tumors. Fibroids. Warts. Bleeding condylomata. Polypi (soft, bleeding). Spongy tumors. Brain tumors. Steatoma. Epulis. Ranular Papillomata (rice bodies). Gumma.
Excrescences - fungoid (cauliflower), horny, fleshy.
Cancers - On a syphilitic base; medullary, lupus, fungoid, epithelioma, sarcoma, leukaemia.
DROPSY:
Anasarca. Hydrocele, Elephantiasis; with oozing. Oedema of face, feet. wasting, emaciation. Reaction: coryza.
SALIENT PARTICULARS:
Mind
Agitated: restless, hurried, impatient, tense, too careful and conscientious, nervous and tremulous when deputed (anticipatory), touchy, passively amative, overactive (in early life), anxious with internal trembling and chest pain about heart driving one out of bed and house. Monomaniac (fixed ideas); dogmatic; (passive) fanatic, yet not a bigot (unlike Hep). Misplaced hatred. Fastidious. The solar plexus, emotions strike on pit of stomach.
Depressive stage; inferiority complex, melancholia, ennui, sense of dissolution, dyslexia, apraxia. Attacks of blackout, loss of senses, thoughts. Passive (muttering) insanity; puerperal. Or, physical breakdown with intact mind (so during fever also).
Children - Vivacious, sensitive, responsive, but either immature or adultize too early, tantrumy. Stranger phobic (like Bar-c). Cretin or even mongol (Med, Nat-m).
HEAD
Vertigo - swinging, levitating; epileptic; worse closing eyes, riding, looking up, stooping. Deep-set syphilitic headaches; after sunstroke; from abuse of tea. Bilious headache. Periodic sick headache. Dull stupefying Band-like. Clavus.
Meningitis - Encephalitis - Vaccinal or sycotic; high fever, coma, opisthotonos. After, crying, mental deterioration.
Apoplexy: Threatened, vertigo worse bending head back. With coma vigil, red sclerotics, bluish suffused face, trembling hand, intermittent pulse; attack at 3 am - pm, while urinating. Retinal apoplexy, with High Blood Pressure.
Dry, hard, lustreless, split hair; short, thin, grows fast or too slow; falls from scalp and occurs on odd places (Med, Sep, Thyr).
EYES
Ophthalmia; neonatorum; nightly agglutination. Recurring (epi-) scleritus. Syphilitic iritis. Kerato-iritis with photophobia and opacity. Jagged iris. Pustular keratitis. Granular lids with wart-like granulations, ulcers. Eyelids heavy, drooping.
Styes. Tarsal tumors (chalazion). Indolent warty phylectenular chalazial. Vascular tumors on cornea. Fungus tumor on orbit. On eyelids meibomian cysts, nodosities, epithelioma. Condylomata in eyebrows.
Vision - Dim, worse in open air reading, better by rubbing. Myopia. Sudden blindness, later atrophy, after antibiotics and vaccinations. Photopsies beyond visual field, cloudy. Floating (green) stripes. Flames. Dazzled from bright light.
EARS
Otalgias; with cold legs, even unconsciousness; after tonsillectomy. Chronic otitis. Otorrhea, purulent, fetid.
Noises: hissing as of boiling water; thumping; humming. Polyps. Keloids. Granulations.
NOSE
Obstructed catarrh with pressing pain at root of nose; amel after discharge with sneezing (green mucus with blood and pus). Chronic Catarrh after vaccination or exanthema. Summer hay fever (compl. Tub). The "old mans pearl" (involuntary dripping); while eating. Epistaxis. Scales. Ulcer. Ozaena. Polyp. Empyemic odors.
FACE
Pain after suppressed eczema or gonorrhea (or vaccination). Pityriasis. Flat ulcers. Fungus on lower jaw, easily bleeding, stemmed, angrier in wet weather.
TEETH
Dirty yellow, tartary and crumbling. Decay begins at edge of gums (Syph), or at roots (Med). Pain better or worse by cold. Gums scorbutic, receding, with red streaks, white or black margins. Pyorrhea, with joint trouble.
MOUTH
Blistery aphthae. Tongue almost clean; mapped; burning worse warm food. Taste sweet; of rotten eggs. Salivation stops during sleep, or mercurial (during sleep). Aphasia after vaccination or apoplexy.
THROAT:
Vasculosis in. Mucous tubercles in. Chronic pharyngitis; swollen tonsils; chancre - like ulcers. Scraping after ices. Adenoids, after vaccination. Papillomata in.
STOMACH:
Desires sweets, fats, refreshing things. Averse to meat. Thirst for ice-cold water; after (dinner or) supper. Downcast after dinner. Colon dyspepsia after supper. Poor digestion; of fats, sweets, mushy foods; after abuse of tea, tobacco, onions; < during wet weather; after vaccination; not so superficial as Pulsatilla. Its milder version. Sinking in epigastrium; must eat. Nausea in waves (9Ip).
ABDOMEN
Flatulence; protusions here and there (pseudocyesis); incarcerated, with pressing-stitching in l. chest (or precordium), better after deflation or stool. Umbilicus protrudes when crying. Hepatitis. Enlarged spleen.
Colitis (even with ulceration); neurogenic. Appendicitis, with fatty vomit and sweat on uncovered parts; after vaccination. Ileus: intussusception, caged flatus or twists in bowels; > lying on all fours. Caecum irritated, full, boggy. Hernias. Old rheumatism attacking bowels, liver and kidneys.
RECTUM
Obstipation, pain withdraws the stool; several normal stools a day; Choleras. Diarrhea, generally painless, early morning, shooting out, imperative. Fatty, stools of coeliac disease. After anti-rabid injections dysentery; chronic; amoebic. Haemorrhoids, tender to touch; mucous piles. Fissures. Fistulas; recto (or vesico) vaginal. Excrescences. Relaxed sphincter, also of bladder.
URINARY
Nephralgia. Nephritis. Pyelitis of B-coli infection. Sycotic prostate troubles. Sudden urging, even enuresis. Dysuria. Urethral stricture, inflammation, carbuncle, polypus. Sycotic diabetes. Uremia; "Renal insufficiency is the basis of sycosis and Thuja" (Bernoville).
MALE
Old gonorrheas. Secondary syphilis; chancroid ulcers; mercuro-syphilis; inherited syphilis. Hyper-emissions. Balanitis; malignant balanorrhea. Orchitis, bruised or pressing, squeezing pains; induration; retraction; anxiety in. Sycotic impotence. Offensive semen.
FEMALE
Sycotic ovaritis, worse at menses; salpingitis. Greenish leucorrhea. Menses too early and scanty; painful. Tendency to abort; sycotic. "Only Thuja can abort an abortion". Sycotic sterility (with anemia, leucorrhea); one child sterility (like Med), Onanism, even during sleep. Exertion prolapse of uterus, vagina. Vaginismus; pruritus after coition. Various growths (see Generals) in uterus; coxcomb (ie honeycombed) excrescences in scars of lacerated os. Epithelioma.
Mammary indurations. Retracted nipples.
RESPIRATORY
Chronic laryngitis. Asthma sycotic, tubercular. Various coughs worse daytime, 3 p.m. better at noon; dry, at night; post diptheric winter coughs. Whooping cough after vaccination; with pneumonias, with a tubercular undertone (Bac. Tub). Pleurisic situations.
HEART
Sycotic or tea-fiends subjective cardiac symptoms; also IHD. vascular throbbing; venosity. Aneurisms by anastomosis. Orgasms. High Blood Pressure.
Cardiac anxiety, with stitches; vaccinal or their angina pectoris, dyspeptic. Oppression; during sleep. Better deflation. Anxious palpitation on walking in morning. Cramps in chest or heart, with coldness all over from music, better after deflation.
BACK
Throbbing backache. Stiff neck. Flatulent pain under left scapula extending to left, hypochondrium, after onions. Bruised pressing lumbago. Spinal irritation, after vaccination.
LOCOMOTOR
Neuralgias; Better by cold (Hering), warmth (Hoyne). twitching, trembling, weakness; jerkings of spinal origin. Paralytic heaviness; of arm. Numb stiffness (wooden feeling) of legs when walking. Atrophied long muscles. Finger tips swollen, red, cold, numb. Nails corrugated, horny, split, crippled, crumbling, exfoliating, brittle, distorted, discoloured, thickened. Ingrowing toe-nails.
Rheumatism. Rheumatic fibrositis, especially of posterior shoulders and hip regions. Gonorrheal R in fibrous part of knee joint. Right every spring. Hips give way. Sciatica (1); after fright; with atrophy; ameliorated erect posture.
SLEEP
Insomnia; vaccinal; after 3 or 4 am. Sycotic sleepiness; after dinner. Dreams: of dead; falling from heights; (dropping into a) bottomless pit, abyss; quarrels; snakes.
SKIN
Mottled with brown spots, or marbled network of capillaries, livid spots remain after healing. Chloasma, of pregnancy. Leucoderma, after failing vaccination or suppressed warts etc. Dry or more often greasy (especially - nose). Eruptions; post vaccinal; only on covered parts; worse Summer, cold bath (worse burning, itching); rash; carbuncles; scabies; blood boils, in crops; herpes, syphilitic; prurigo; zona; pemphigus, syphilitic; eczema; suppressed with mercury or sulphur. Cicatrices; keloid growths. Naevi; materna. Tubercles. Lichen urticatus.
Ulcers - bluish; burning; fistulous; jagged edges; itching; spongy; sarcomatous (proud flesh); smarting; stinging; varicose; bounded by vesicles; syphilitic.
Warts - bleeding; burning; flat; fleshy; moist; pulpy; horny; cleft; fissured; soft, or hard; fungus haematodes or cauliflower (acinate); pedunculated; itching; acuminate; rough, seedy; smooth; sessile; small ones, satelliting a big one; sycotic or syphilitic; pulsating suppurating; after vaccination onanism or suppressed diarrhoea - dysentery. Troubles after suppressing warts.
THERMIC
Chill - ascending, unilateral left. Periodical. Coldness localized; no heat could warm him. Heat with icy hands; or of upper half of body; dry H of covered parts with sweat on uncovered. Feverish in fungus haematodes, or cauliflower (acinate); evening, with headache; F. coldness.
Sweat - easy, especially on uncovered parts, or all over except head, on side not lain on, (early) sleep, before menses, gushes in company, greasy, smells sweetish honey like, pungent (strong), sour or foul, sulphurous acid. Localized.
Chronic intermittent; with Nat-m symptoms, but she bore only one child; tertian, with dreams of falling.
High fever, or habitual influenza with ill health and headache; after vaccination. Chronic slow fever, early in morning. Warm fever, with colic, convulsion, stupor h-o vaccinations. During rainy season chill daily at 5 pm, with cold clammy legs, with dry cough that abated with ensuing fever, normal about 9 pm. after supper (Rhus-t palliating).
Typhoid, fever highest at 3 am and pm stool slips back, sweat on uncovered parts, h-o gonorrhea, gout, rheumatism, bronchial asthma (also of family), mind very clear.
RELATIONS
Acute - Ant.c, Arn, Ars, Asaf, Bac, Bry, Carb-v, cast, Cocc, Ign, Ip, Nux-v., Pho., Pul., Pyro. Sul;. Tub.
Complementary - Aur, Cal-c, Kali-c, Lach, Lyc, Malan, Med, Merc, Nat-m, Nat-s, Nit-ac, Sabi, Sil, Sul, syc-co, Syph, Thyr (nerves), Tub. Complementary to also - Ap, Caust, Carc, Psor, Sel., Sil.
Trios - Ars-Thuj-Tarn; Sep-Thuj-Nat-m; Sul-Tub-Thuj; Sul-Psor-Thuja.
Antidotes - Cam, Cham, Cimi, Cocc, Colch, Ign, Iod, Merc, Nux-v, Pul, Sabi (for warts), Stap, Sul.
Counterparts - Caust, Sep.
Compare - Cal-c, Nat-s, Psor, Sabi, Sep, Sil, Staph, Sin (heart).
Symbiotics - Sil and Thuj.
