Thuja Occidentalis thuj.

Mucous membranes: GENITO-URINARY. Intestines. Mind. Nerves. Occiput. Glands. SKIN. Left side; ovary.

COLD DAMP. Heat; of bed. Periodically: 3 A.M. Yearly. Increasing moon. During menses. Urinating. Gonorrhœa. Syphilis. Mercury. Vaccination. Tea. Onions.

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.

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 Mercury to syphilis. Acts well in lymphatic temperament, in very fleshy persons, dark complexion, black hair, unhealthy skin. Ailments from bad effects of vaccination (Ant. t., Sil.); from suppressed or maltreated gonorrhoea (Med.). Fixed ideas: as if a strange person were at his side; as if soul and body were separated; as if a living animal were in abdomen; of being under the influence of a superior power. Insane women will not be touched or approached. Vertigo, when closing the eyes (Lach., Ther.). Headache: as if a nail had been driven into parietal bone (Coff., Ign.); or as if a convex button were pressed on the part; < from sexual excesses; overheating from tea (Sel.); chronic, or sycotic or syphilitic origin. White scaly dandruff; hair dry and falling out. Eyes: ophthalmia neonatorum, sycotic or syphilitic; large granulations, like warts or blisters; > by warmth and covering; in uncovered, feels as if a cold stream of air were blowing out through them. Eyelids: agglutinated at night; dry, scaly on edges; styes and tarsal tumors; chalazae, thick, hard knots, like small condylomata; after Stapisagria partially > but does not cure. Ears: chronic otitis; discharge purulent, like putrid meat; granulations, condylomata; polypi, pale red, cellular, bleeding easily. Chronic catarrh: after exanthemata; thick, green mucus, blood and pus (Puls.). Teeth decay at the roots, crowns remain sound (Mez. - on edges, Staph.); crumble, turn yellow (Syph.). Ranula: bluish, or varicose veins on tongue or in mouth (Amb.). Toothache from tea drinking. "On blowing the nose a pressing pain in the hollow tooth or at the side of it (Culex)." - Boenninghausen. Abdomen: as if an animal were crying; motion as if something alive; protrudes here and there like the arm of a foetus (Croc., Nux m., Sulph.). Distressing, burning pain in left ovarian region when walking or riding, must sit or lie down (Croc., Ust.); worse at each menstrual nisus. Constipation: violent pains in rectum compel cessation of effort; stool recedes, after being partly expelled (Sanic., Sil.). Piles swollen, pain most severe when sitting. Diarrhoea: early morning; expelled forcibly with much flatus (Aloe); gurgling, as water from a bunghole; < after breakfast, coffee, fat food, vaccinations. Anus fissured, painful to touch surrounded with flat warts, or moist mucous condylomata. Coition prevented by extreme sensitiveness of the vagina (Plat. - by dryness, Lyc., Lys., Natr.). Skin: looks dirty; brown or brownish-white spots here and there; warts, large, seedy, pedunculated (Staph.); eruptions only on covered parts, burn after scratching. Flesh feels as if beaten, from the bones (Phyt. - as if scraped, Rhus). Sensation after urinating, as of urine trickling in urethra; severe cutting at close of urination (Sars.). Chill, beginning in the thighs. Sweat: only on uncovered parts; or all over except the head (rev. of Sil.); when he sleeps, stops when he wakes (rev. of Samb.); profuse, sour smelling, fetid at night. Persipration, smelling like honey, on the genitals. When walking the limbs feel as if made of wood. Sensation as if body, especially the limbs, were made of glass and would break easily. Suppressed gonorrhoea: causing articular rheumatism; prostatitis; sycosis; impotence; condylomata and many constitutional troubles. Nails: deformed, brittle (Ant. c.).

Complementary: Med., Sab., Sil. Compare: Cann. s., Canth., Cop., Staph. Cinnab. is preferable for warts on the prepuce. Follows well: after, Med., Mer., Nit. ac.

At night; from heat of bed; at 3 a. m. and 3 p. m.; from cold damp air; narcotics.

Warts on any part of the body with little necks, called fig warts; tubular wart--i.e., long wart, same size all the way out; "mother's mark." Condylomata.

Complaints, while and after passing water; sensation as if water were trickling down the urethra; dribbling urine. Constant, repeated, strong urging to urinate; voids large quantities.

Venereal diseases. Affections in general appearing in male or female genital organs, particularly on the external organs; affections on left side particularly. Ovaries. Nocturnal erections. Abortion at end of third month, commencing with a scanty discharge of blood for five days, then more and more profuse.

Darting pain in outer parts also in joints; burning darting pain; drawing in the blood vessels.

Affections of the right abdominal ring; wings of the nose; loins; inguinal glands; fingers; tips of fingers; toes. Aneurisms by anastomosis; swelling of the blood vessels. Dreams anxious, especially of dead persons; of falling; of accidents. Flushes of heat.

In the afternoon; after midnight; while chewing; stretching the affected limb; while urinating.

While drawing up the limb.

Mercur., Sulphur, are best. Then come Calc. carb., Ignat., Lycop., Kali carb., Pulsat., Silic.

Mercur., Camphor.

Fixed idea of a living animal in the abdomen. Diarrhoea, stool expelled forcibly with much noisy flatus or with gurgling as water from a bunghole. Moist sycotic excresences on genitals, hands and hairy parts.

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 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 gonorrhœa and vaccination. Suppressed gonorrhœa, 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.

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). Emotional sensitiveness; music causes weeping and trembling.

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

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

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

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

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. Pyorrhea alveolaris.

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

Distended; indurations in abdomen. Chronic diarrhœa, worse after breakfast. Discharges forcibly expelled; gurgling sound. Brown spots. Flatulence and distension; protruding here and there. Rumbling and colic. Constipation, with violent rectal pain, causing stool to recede (Sil; Sanic). Piles swollen; pain worse sitting, with stitching, burning pains at the anus. Anus fissured; painful to touch with warts. Movements as of something living (Crocus), without pain.

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

Inflammation of prepuce and glans; pain in penis. Balanitis. Gonorrhœal rheumatism. Gonorrhœa. Chronic induration of testicles. Pain and burning felt near neck of bladder, with frequent and urgent desire to urinate. Prostatic enlargement (Ferr pic; Thiosinaminum; Iod; Sabal).

Vagina very sensitive (Berb; Kreos; Lyssin). Warty excrescences on vulva and perineum. Profuse leucorrhœa; 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 (Lach). Profuse perspiration before menses.

Dry, hacking cough in afternoon, with pain in pit of stomach. Stitches in chest; worse, cold drinks. Asthma in children (Nat sulph). Papilloma of larynx. Chronic laryngitis.

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.

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

Persistent insomnia.

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.

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.

Compare: (Hydrogenoid constitution: Calcar; Silica; Nat sulph; Aranea; Apis; Pulsat). Cupressus australis (sharp, prickling pain; general feeling of warmth; rheumatism and gonorrhœa). Cupressus Lawsoniana (acts like Thuja; terrible pains in the stomach). Sphingurus (falling out of hair from beard; pain in jaw-joint and zygoma); Sil; Maland (vaccination); Medorrh (suppressed gonorrhœa); Merc; Cinnab; Terebinth; Juniperus; Sabin; Sil; Canth; Cannab; Nit ac; Puls; Ant tart; Arborin is a non-alcoholic preparation of Thuja.

Antidotes: Merc; Camph; Sabin (warts).

Complementary: Sabina; Ars; Nat sulph; Silica.

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

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 not relieve; stream split, cutting after urination; discharge thick.

Sweat only on uncovered parts.

Hahnemann recognized three miasms (as he called them) which complicated the treatment of all diseases. They were syphilis, psora and sycosis.

Sulphur was his chief anti-psoric, Mercury his anti-syphilitic and Thuja his anti-sycotic.

Whatever may be said against his theories along this line, certain it is that these three remedies do correct certain states of the system which seem to obstruct the curative action of other seemingly well-indicated remedies.

Thuja, for instance, cures or so changes the existing conditions that other remedies cure which could not do so before Thuja was given. Many diseases of various forms come under this rule. Whenever warts, condylomata, fig-warts etc., which come in consequence of gonorrhœal affections, especially suppressed, gonorrhœa, are found in any case we think of Thuja. For instance, a case of enuresis had resisted many seemingly indicated remedies, until the hands were discovered to be covered with warts, when a few drops of Thuja cured. Of course, the curative power of Thuja is not confined to sycosis, but can, like other remedies, cure when symptoms indicate it where no sycotic element in the case is apparent. Nevertheless, its chief power is manifested in those cases in which this miasm is unmistakably present. It is astonishing what widely different and varied forms of disease will be so modified by this miasm as to call for anti-sycotic treatment.

As Sulphur is not the only anti-psoric, or Mercury the only anti-syphilitic, so Thuja is not the only anti-sycotic; for Nitric acid, Staphisagria, Sabina, Cinnabaris and other remedies are sometimes called for, either before or after Thuja, or even when Thuja is not at all the remedy. But on the whole, Thuja, perhaps, as Hahnemann taught, stands at the head of the list. Thuja, Agaricus and Lycopodium have been called over-proven remedies; but when we realize the wide range of diseases which are complicated by the sycotic element in them we are not so sure of the over-proving of the Thuja, for it could not so benefit such a wide range of complaints if it could not produce a wide range of symptoms in its pathogenesis. This is also true of Sulphur and Mercury. Thuja has some very peculiar symptoms of the mind which have been verified.

"Fixed ideas, as if a strange person were at his side; as if the soul and body were separated; that the body and particularly the limbs were made of glass, and will readily break; as if a living animal were in the abdomen; tells about being under the influence of a superior power." Insane women will not be touched or approached. Aside from these curious mind symptoms we have: "Headaches of sycotic origin, with various symptoms; white dandruff, hair falling out or grows slowly and splits; eyelids bear styes, chalazæ, tarsal tumors, or condylomata; ears inflame, discharge pus, or grow polypi. Nose discharges thick, green mucus like Pulsatilla, or scabs are formed in it; warts on the outside of the nose or eruptions on its wings; face has a greasy or shiny look; teeth begin to decay at the roots as soon as they come, the crowns remaining sound. Ranula under the tongue, or varicosities in the mouth or throat; a great deal of croaking, rumbling and grumbling in the abdomen, as if of an animal crying; abdomen puffed and big, protruding here and there as if from the arm of a fœtus, or of something alive; constipation of hard black balls; chronic; stools large; and stool recedes after being partially expelled (Sanic., Silic.); or diarrhœa forcibly expelled, copious gurgling like water from a bung hole of a barrel; diarrhœa, especially from the effects of vaccination; anus fissured or surrounded with condylomata (see Antim. crud., Graphites and Silicea); ovarian troubles; asthma; nails brittle, distorted, crumbling, misshapen or soft; warts, condylomata, bleeding fungous growths; nœvi; epithelioma, and many other affections in sycotic subjects." Finally don't forget to look for the three miasms in all obstinate cases, whether acute or chronic.

Modalities. < cold, damp air (hydrogenoid); after vaccination excessive tea drinking, extension of limbs; > drawing up limbs.

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. Thoughtlessness ; forgetfulness. Over-excited, becomes easily angry over trifles. Music causes him to weep, with trembling of the feet.

Vertigo on closing the eyes, disappears as soon as he opens them ; or on stooping ; or on looking upwards or side ways. Pressing headache in the vertex, as if a nail were driven into it (P.M. and 3 A.M.) ; worse when at rest, better after perspiration. Heaviness in the cerebellum, with ill-humor and aversion to conversation. The headache is relieved from exercising in the open air, from looking upwards and when turning the head backwards. The scalp is very painful to the touch, and the parts on which one lies. He wants to have the head (and face) wrapped up warm. Dry herpes on the head, extending to the eyebrows. Dandruff. White, scaly, peeling-off eruption over the scalp, extending over the forehead, temples, ears, and neck. Tingling-biting, stinging-itching on the scalp, relieved by scratching. Perspiration, smelling of honey (sweetish), on the uncovered parts of the head (face and hands), with dryness of the covered parts, and of those on which one lies, mostly when first going to sleep ; better after rising.

The eye must be warmly covered, when uncovered it pains at once, and it feels as if cold air were streaming out of the head through the eye. Lachrymation, especially in the open air ; the tears do not run off, but remain standing in the eye. The whites of the eye are blood-red. Inflammatory softening of the inner surface of the eyelids. Inflammatory swelling of the eyelids, with hardness. Weakness of the eyes ; obscure sight. Small, black spots float before the eyes. Double vision. In the dark it seems as if falling down of luminous lights or sparks alongside of the eye, during the day and in the light it is as if dark drops were falling down. The objects appear smaller (before the right eye).

Noise in the ear as from boiling water. Stitches into the ear from the neck. Sensation as if the inner ear were swollen, with increased hardness of bearing. Oozing from the right ear, smelling like putrid meat.

Nose red and hot. Red eruption on the nose, at times humid. Blowing from the nose of a large quantity of thick, green mucus, mixed with pus and blood, later of dry, brown scales, with mucus, which comes from the frontal sinuses and firmly adheres to the swollen upper portion of the nostrils. Painful scabs in the nostrils. Eruptions on the wings of the nose. Accumulation of mucus in the posterior nares. Swelling and induration of the wings of the nose. Warts on the nose. Smell in the nose as from brine of fish, or of fermenting beer. Fluent coryza in the open air, and dry coryza in the room.

Heat and redness of the whole face, with fine nets of veins, as if marbled. Circumscribed burning redness of the cheeks. The skin of the face is red-hot, peeling off continually ; when washing it feels sore and raw. Dropsically-bloated face. Œdematous erysipelas of the face. Greasy skin of the face. Light-brown blotches (freckles) on the face. Eruptions on the face, leaving livid spots. Swelling of the temporal arteries. Faceache, originating in the left cheek-bone near the ear, extending through the teeth to the nose, through the eyes to the temples into the head ; the painful spots burn like fire, and are very sensitive to the rays of the sun. Perspiration of the face, especially on the side on which he does not lie.

Flat, white ulcers on the inside of the lips, and on the corners of the mouth. Lips pale, swollen ; peeling off. Cracking of the articulation of the jaw. The roots of the teeth become carious ; or the teeth become carious from the side ; the crown of the tooth remains sound. The teeth crumble off. Dirty-yellow teeth. Toothache from drinking tea. Gum swollen, inflamed, with dark-red streaks on them. Tongue swollen, especially on the right wide ; he bites himself on the tongue frequently. Aphthæ in the mouth. Blue swelling under the tongue ; ranula. Taste in the mouth sweet as sugar, with gonorrhœa. Accumulation of a large quantity of mucus in the throat, which is hawked up with difficulty. Painful swallowing, especially empty swallowing or that of saliva. Throat feels raw, dry, as from a plug, or as if it were constricted when swallowing.

The food tastes as if it were not salt enough. Bread tastes dry and bitter. Longing for cold food and drink. Bad effects from fat things and onions. Violent thirst, especially at night and early in the morning. While masticating the food becomes very dry. Eructations rancid or acid. Gulping up of large quantities of acids from the stomach. Taste of putrid eggs in the mouth in the morning. Continuous eructations of air while eating. Vomiting of mucus, or of greasy substances. Induration of the stomach. Indurations in the abdomen. The fluid which he drinks falls with a noise in the stomach. The upper part of the abdomen in drawn in. Soreness of the navel. Swelling of the pit of the stomach. Movement in the abdomen as of something alive, as if the abdominal muscle were pushed outward by the arm of a fœtus, but painless. Painful swelling of the inguinal glands. Intussusception of the intestines. Yellow or brownish spots on the abdomen. Zona. Flatulence, as if an animal were crying in the abdomen.

Ineffectual urging to stool, with erections. Obstinate constipation, as from inactivity, or from intussusception of the intestines. Stool in hard balls. Discharge of blood with the stool. Diarrhœa ; pale-yellow water is forcibly expelled, with much noisy discharge of wind. In the morning (after breakfast), or in the morning, periodically returning diarrhœa, always at the same hour. Stools oily or greasy. Painful constriction of the anus during the stool. Hæmorrhoidal tumors swollen, paining worse while sitting. Offensive perspiration at the anus and in the perinæum. Sycotic excrescences at the anus. Fistula in ano.

Frequent urging to urinate, and profuse secretion of urine, especially towards and in the evening. The urine foams ; the foam remains long on the urine. Involuntary secretion of urine ; at night ; when coughing ; in drops after having urinated. The bladder (and rectum) feels paralyzed, having no power to expel. Sediment of brown mucus. Urethra burning, biting-itching. The urine contains sugar. Bloody urine.

Men. Swelling of the prepuce ; inflammation of the glands. Sycotic excrescences on the frænulum and on the glands ; they ooze, especially during the new moon. Watery, copious discharge from the urethra (gonorrhœa). Stitches in the urethra, with urging to urinate. Sensation as if a drop were running through the urethra. Nightly painful erections. Impotence after gonorrhœa. Profuse perspiration, smelling sweet like honey, on the genitals. Women. Profuse perspiration before menstruation. Abortion in the third month.

Voice low. Dyspnœa, as from adhesion of the lungs. Shortness of breath, from mucus in the trachea. Shortness of breathing from fulness and constriction in the hypochondria an upper abdomen. Cough only during the day, or in the morning after rising, and in the evening after lying down. Cough as soon as one eats. During the evening cough after lying down, the expectoration becomes loose ; easier when he turns from the left to the right side. Stitches in the chest after drinking any thing cold. Violent congestions to the chest, with strong, audible palpitation of the heart. Anxious palpitation of the heart when waking in the morning. Blue color of the skin on the clavicle. The expectoration tastes like old cheese. Sensation as of a skin in the larynx. Brown spots on the chest.

Greasy, brown skin on the neck. Burning extending from the small of the back to between the shoulder-blades. Beating and pulsating in the back. Blood-boils on the back. Pressing pain in the region of the kidneys.

Upper. Herpes on the elbow. Brown color on the back of the hand. White scaly herpes on the back of the hand and on the finger. Cold perspiration on the hands. Erysipelatous swelling of the tips of the fingers, with tingling in them. Nails are crippled, discolored, crumbling off. Twitching of the muscles of the arms. Coldness and sensation of deadness of the fingers and tips of the fingers. Stinging pains in the arms and the joints. Lower. The hip-joint feels as if it were relaxed. When walking the limbs feel as if they were made of wood. Hip-ache, the leg becomes elongated. Brown skin on the legs, especially on the inside of the thigh. Nets of veins, as if marbled, on the soles of the feet. Red swelling of the tips of the toes. Toe-nails crippled, brittle. Fetid sweat on the toes. Suppressed foot-sweat.

Emaciation and deadness of the affected parts. Jerking up of the upper part of the body. The flesh feels as if it were beaten off the bones. Sensation of lightness of the body when walking. Cracking of the joints on stretching them out. Bad effects from beer, fat food, acids, sweets, tobacco, tea, wine and onions ; from the abuse of Sulphur and Mercury. Stitches in the limbs and joints. The limbs go to sleep. One-sided complaints -paralysis. St. Vitus' dance.

Continuous sleeplessness, with painfulness of the parts on which one lies. Sleeplessness, with apparitions as soon as he closes his eyes ; they disappear as soon as he opens them. Goes to sleep late on account of heat and restlessness. Anxious dreams if he lies on the left side.

Pulse slow and weak in the morning, in the evening accelerated and full. In the evening violent pulsations. Swelling of the veins. Chill in attacks at various times in the day, but mostly in the evening. Chilliness on the left side, which feels cold to the touch. Chill without thirst after midnight and in the morning. Internal chilliness, with external heat and violent thirst. Heat in the evening, especially on the face. Burning in the face without redness. Dry heat of the covered parts. Perspiration when first going to sleep. Perspiration on the parts of the body which are uncovered, with dry heat of the covered parts. Anxious, at times cold sweat. Perspiration after the chill, without any intervening heat. Perspiration, at times oily or fetid, or smelling sweet like honey. General perspiration, but not on the head. When walking in the morning profuse perspiration ; the most profuse on the head. Perspiration only during sleep, disappearing at once as soon as he awakens. Rachitis.

Dirty-brownish color of the skin. Brownish, or brown-red, or brown-white spots on the skin. Pustules. Small-pox. Eruptions only on the covered parts. The eruptions burn violently after scratching. Sycotic excrescences, smelling like old cheese, or like the brine of fish. White, scaly, dry, mealy herpes. Condylomata large, seedy, frequently on a pedicle. Flat ulcers, with a bluish-white bottom. Zona. Corns burning. Crippled nails on the fingers and toes.

Aggravation in the evening and at night ; the debility if ; worse in the morning ; some complaints are aggravated at 3 A.M. and 3 P.M. ; from cold wet ; from the heat of the bed. Amelioration; from warm wet ; from eructations ; from a development of coryza, with sneezing ; and from turning from the left to the right side.

Thuja 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. Dysmenorrhœa. Ear, polypus of . Enuresis. Epilepsy. Epulis. Eyes, tumours of; granular inflammation of . Fatty tumours. Feet, fetid. Flatus, incarcerated. Frontal sinuses, catarrh of. Ganglion. Gleet. Gonorrhœa . Hæmorrhage. Hæmorrhoids. Hair, affections of. Headache. Hernia. Herpes zoster. Ichthyosis . Intussusception. Jaws, growth on . Joints, cracking in. Levitation. Morvan's disease. Mucous patches . Muscæ volitantes. Myopia. Nævus. Neck, cracking in. Onanism. Ovary, left, pain in. Ozæna. Neuralgia. Nose, chronic catarrh of; polypus of. Paralysis. Pemphigus. Polypus . Post-nasal catarrh. Pregnancy, imaginary. Prostate, disease of . Ptosis. Ranula. Rheumatism, gonorrhœal . Rickets. Sciatica. Seminal emissions, nocturnal. Sycosis. Syphilis. Tea, effects of . Teeth, caries of. Tongue, ulcers of; biting of. Toothache. Tumours. Vaccination . Vaccinosis. Vaginismus. Warts . Whooping-cough.

The American Arbor Vitæ is a "spiry evergreen attaining a height of from 20 to 50 feet, though generally not above 40, and a diameter of about 10 to 20 feet through the greatest breadth of foliage." It abounds in the upper zones of North America, from Pennsylvania northwards, where it "often forms what are commonly known as cedar-swamps. It grows upon the rocky banks of rivers, and in low, swampy spots, blossoming from May until June and maturing its fruit in autumn. The Arbor Vitæ assumes a conical form with such true lines as to appear 'clipped,' thus forming one of our most valued high-hedge trees" (Millspaugh). Thuja was introduced to France from Canada in the reign of Francis I. of France, and it has now an honoured place in most of our gardens and shrubberies. The native habitat of Thuja is not without its importance in relation to therapeutics. It loves swamps; it is Hahnemann's typical antisycotic and Grauvogl's hydrogenoid. Thuja is one of Hahnemann's discoveries. Most of the remedies of his materia medica had been known in a fashion before his time. Of the therapeutic properties of Thuja practically nothing was known till Hahnemann proved it. Subsequent observers have only confirmed or added to Hahnemann's pathogenesis. Hahnemann found in Thuja the antidote to the miasm of the condition which he termed Sycosis , meaning thereby the constitutional disease resulting from constitutional gonorrhœa, and having as its characteristic manifestation excrescences, sometimes dry in the form of warts, more frequently soft, spongy, emitting a fetid fluid with a sweetish odour something like herring brine, bleeding readily and having the coxcomb or cauliflower form. Teste remarks that in the period when the doctrine of Signatures prevailed the "resinous callosities of the stems and leaves of Thuja occ . might have seemed an indication that the plant was the specific for sycosis and warts." Teste dismisses this idea, but he asks whether resinous substances which have the power of modifying vegetable juices in a peculiar way may not affect the animal fluids in the same manner. He includes Castor . in his Thuja group, and gives an instance in which it acted on fig-warts. Castor . is the product of an animal which subsists on the bark of resinous trees. — Hering gives this as the action of Thuja ( 1 ) on the fluids: "dissolution of fluids of the body, which become acrid, probably caused by Thuja perverting lymphatic secretions; disturbs digestion and sanguification"; and this ( 2 ) in the vegetative sphere: "A surplus of producing life; nearly unlimited proliferation of pathological vegetations, condylomata, warty sycotic excrescences, spongy tumours, and spongy pock exudates [which] organise hastily; all morbid manifestations are excessive, but appear quietly, so that the beginning of the diseased state is scarcely known." Bœnninghausen found Thuja both preventive and curative in an epidemic of small-pox. It aborted the process and prevented pitting. In veterinary practice Thuja has proved curative in farcy and in "grease." These facts open up another great branch of Thuja's homœopathicity — its anti-vaccinal action. This extension was made by Kunkel and Goullon following on Bœnninghausen's experience with small-pox. On this subject no one has written more forcibly or lucidly than Burnett ( Vaccinosis and its Cure by Thuja ). " Arbor Vitæ: nomen omen ," says Burnett on his title-page. And in his hands Thuja has proved indeed a tree of life to numberless sufferers from the vaccinal taint. By "vaccinosis" Burnett means the disease known as vaccinia, the result of vaccination, plus "that profound and often long-lasting morbid constitutional state engendered by the vaccine virus." To this state Thuja is homœopathic, and therefore curative and preventive of it. Burnett makes the profound observation, which I can confirm, that the vaccine virus does not need to "take" (that is, to set up vaccinia) in order to produce the vaccinal dyscrasia: that "not a few persons date their ill-health from a so-called unsuccessful vaccination." So that vaccinosis may exist apart from vaccinia. The antivaccinal action of Thuja is part of its antisycotic action: vaccinia is a sycotic disease. Burnett gives the case of an infant ten weeks old, whom he was called to see as it was supposed to be dying. He found it ghastly white and in collapse. There was nothing to account for this except that the baby had had its wet-nurse changed two or three days before. The wet-nurse was questioned and declared herself quite well and looked it; but "her arm was a little painful." She had been revaccinated in the Marylebone Workhouse the day before she took charge of the patient. Burnett found the vaccine eruption just turning into the pustular stage. He concluded that the infant was sucking the vaccinal poison with its nurse's milk. He gave Thuja 6 to both infant and nurse. The baby gradually improved the same day, and next morning was, though still pale, practically well, and the vaccinal vesicles on the nurse's arm had withered. Burnett quotes a case of vaccinal rash in an infant following the vaccination of its mother, who was nursing it. The effects of chronic vaccinosis are protean. Prominent among them are neuralgias (of which Burnett gives many examples), morbid skin disorders, indigestion, and constipation; warts and new growths of many kinds. In these effects a favourite method of Burnett's was to give a course of twenty-four numbered powders, only three or four of them medicated with Thuja 30; one to be taken at bedtime. With the same prescription he cured many cases of paralysis, his indications being: Left side of body; very chilly; < in morning, in wet weather, and in cold: with these indications present he also found enlargements of the spleen to dissolve. In 1889 I was consulted by Mr. A., 38, about a lump, or rather two lumps, in the right breast, which was like that of a girl approaching puberty, the left breast being quite flat and normal. There was a hard, not sharply defined lump to the right of the nipple, and a smaller one to the left of it, but freely movable, the larger somewhat tender and irritated by the pressure of the brace. The tumours had existed eighteen months and came on at a time of much anxiety when his wife died of consumption. His paternal grandmother and two aunts had died of cancer. He had been twice vaccinated, but on the second occasion the arm did not "rise." As a small boy his hands were covered with warts. — At eight he had shingles. On August 15th Thuja 10m F. C. was given. October 21th. — If anything tumours a little less. Thuja 10m continued at intervals. February 4, 1890. — Tumours can only be felt with difficulty. No pain. The medicine was repeated and when next seen some time later the patient was absolutely well. A very much vaccinated lady developed at the climacteric indurations in both breasts, especially the right. Menses were accompanied by severe neuralgic pains. Thuja was given in 1m, 10m, and cm F. C. potencies. The last set up attacks of angina pectoris of such intensity that I did not repeat it. The indurations disappeared, but in the course of the cure an eruption closely resembling small-pox developed over her breasts on more than one occasion. The first case I treated homœopathically was one of new growths — a cluster of small warts on the forehead of a boy which had lasted eighteen months and followed the scratch of a cat. Thuja Ø in fractional doses and Thuja Ø painted on cured permanently in three weeks. A gentleman, about 50, consulted me recently about a wart on the right side of his head. He was bald, and the wart was black and unsightly. It had been growing some months, and he was somewhat anxious about it as his father had had a similar wart develop in the same locality at the same age, and it had never left him. My patient had been twice vaccinated. Thuja 30, twenty-eight powders, one in seven medicated, one at bedtime. In one month there was much reduction; Thuja was repeated, and in little over two months the wart was gone. Burnett says Thuja is the remedy for fatty tumours, which he regards as sycotic in nature. Thuja not only produces symptoms of the secondary stage of gonorrhœal and vaccinal affections, it also produces urethritis and a variolous eruption. Dudgeon has reported acute urethritis with yellow discharge lasting altogether a fortnight as the result of chewing a Thuja cone. Mersch ( H. M ., xxx. 686) gave Thuja 3 to a patient as a prophylactic against small-pox. This patient and another who took it for the same purpose developed simple urethritis. Mersch proved Thuja Ø on himself and some others: ( 1 ) M. N. had rose-coloured blotches on the back, and several days after leaving off the medicine had warts develop on the outer side of the root of the thumb. These were still present three years after, though smaller and softer. ( 2 ) Mersch himself, who took Thuja for fifteen days, had heavy sensation in the head on waking, an eruption of desquamative annular blotches, and from the twelfth day a tearing along the right arm which compelled him to keep the arm flexed for eight days, < attempting to extend the arm; slightly > by heat. A small soft wart appeared at the external portion of right middle finger. This disappeared a month after the proving was ended. (" < By extension" is a characteristic of Thuja ; it = cracking in joints. The arm symptoms are also < when the limb hangs down, which is also an extension.) Apropos of the annular scaly blotches, I had a case of psoriasis of the legs in a youth which was benefited by Thuja more than by any other remedy, though the Thuja was given for some other affection. A patient came to Raue ( H. R ., ii. 162) complaining that his semen had a very offensive smell. Raue did not know of a remedy producing the symptom, but selected Thuja . Two doses of the 200th and one of the 15th were taken. The man was at the time in the hands of an eminent dentist for his teeth, which for five years had been a great trouble to him on account of their extreme sensitiveness to cold; the gums were in a deplorable state and the teeth were encrusted with tartar. After receiving the Thuja the extreme sensitiveness of the teeth disappeared in one night; then the offensive odour of the semen. In four days the patient again saw the dentist, who was amazed to find his gums quite sound. Moreover, the patient had lost an oppression of the chest which had been troubling him some time. Goullon ( Leip. Pop. Zeit. f. H ., translated Rev. H. Belge , September, 1895) relates the cure of a mental state by Thuja 30x. He remarks that, following the advice of Kunkel, he gives only a single dose of Thuja , one or two drops of the tincture on sugar or milk, at bedtime. When he has given a second dose the following night he has observed new symptoms " Thuja in fact has a very marked action on sleep, and its symptoms appear by preference at night — the headache, for example." This is the case: Miss R., 40; complained of her head, especially at certain moments, when ideas which did not concern her in the least came to her as if some one else was thinking by her side . Thuja produces a confusion in the thoughts which patients cannot rid themselves of on account of great weakness and pain in the head. This patient had for months been attending on a paralysed sister, frequently getting up in the night and worrying herself about numberless things. Her nervous system was very impressionable, and for weeks had reached a point of extreme over-excitement. She could no longer calm herself, and in addition she sneezed and coughed much. The problem was to give her sleep and take away the pain in the head. Even when she was not obliged to getup she could not get sleep. Her eyes were also very much irritated. The patient afterwards described her condition thus: "I felt in the anterior part of the head, principally the forehead, a sensation as if lead were compressing my eyes; these were inflamed, < by light, > in open air. Before going to sleep I felt a congestion in the head with headache; at the same time queer, confused ideas which changed like a flash and fell upon the most odd things. These were > when I opened my eyes or sat up. Before my eyes images and statues arranged themselves. If I wished to think of something sensible, in the twinkling of an eye I lost the thread of my ideas. All this happened at night; during the day the wicked sprites did not appear. My head and eyes pained me when there was much movement, as when several people were speaking at once." The effect of the dose she described thus After having taken the Thuja I tasted a sweet repose; the next morning a complete transformation had taken place in the head, the weight was gone, the eyes were more fresh, the brain free." Goullon cured a lady who had had headache for a year; on waking felt as if a tight hoop enclosed forehead, not passing away till noon. Eyelids heavy as lead. Thuja 10x, one close at bedtime, permanently cured. A. W. Holcombe ( Med. Vis ., xii. 225) relates experiences bearing on the sleep and dreams of Thuja . ( 1 ) Mrs. E., 48, had a growth, wart-like, about the size of a sixpence, on left temple. It began as a slight roughness and itched at times. Also growth about the same size on a hard palate (left), very sore. Much headache, on left side of the head, throbbing in left temple, and the pains extend into left ear. Cannot sleet after 3 a.m. Dreams much of falling . Feels smothering in a warm room. Thirsty, < noon and afternoon. Feet sweat much, offensive; sweats much about groins. Thuja cm was given on October 25th. By November 15th the growths and all the rest of the symptoms had disappeared. ( 2 ) Led by this same symptom, "almost every night, dreams of falling from a height," Holcombe cured a man, 30, of tertian fever with Thuja cm when a large number of other seemingly well-indicated remedies had failed. Robert Farley (quoted A. H ., xxiii. 446) relates the case of two children, æt. 5, who had what he graphically terms "urinary tantrums." Two hours after being put to bed they would wake kicking, crying, and refusing to answer a question. This lasted an hour or more. Asked if they wanted to urinate they would refuse to answer, strike at attendant, or even say "No." Finally it was found that if they were taken up and put on the closet they would urinate and then go to sleep readily. One of the children developed signs of incipient inflammation of the left hip-joint. The totality led to the selection of Thuja , which was given in the 200th. After the first night there were no more "tantrums," and in two months the child was perfectly well. This child's father had had gonorrhœa, treated by injection, some years before the patient was born. But the other child's father had not had gonorrhœa. In the latter case, which was exactly like the former, the cure was immediate; in the former case relief occurred on the second night. C. W. Roberts ( H. R ., xii. 137) found Thuja Ø, in five- to seven-drop doses at bedtime, control nocturnal seminal emissions better than any other remedy. "Nocturnal seminal emission" is an emphasised symptom in M. M. P . Epulis is probably a malignant kind of sycotic hyperplasia. Percy Wilde ( H. W ., xxi. 199) records the case of a young married lady who had a large epulis on the lower jaw, rapidly increasing in size, ulcerating on the surface, very painful, and filling the mouth with an ill-smelling secretion. The entire tumour was removed by operation, and also the subjoined bone. Three weeks later the tumour was as large as before and increased daily. Thuja 1x was now given. The growth stopped immediately; ulceration ceased; the pain disappeared. In three weeks the gum was healthy and remained so permanently. Villers (quoted A. H ., xxi. 421) relates a case of scalp tumour in a youth of seventeen. The tumour had existed two years, and had somewhat the appearance of a bean. It was situated about the posterior edge of the parietal bone, was devoid of sensation, and the hair had disappeared from it, making it very conspicuous. Thuja 30 was given, a dose every twenty days. In four months the youth was almost cured, in five months entirely so, the hair having grown again completely over the spot. George Royal (quoted A. H ., xxiii. 387) relates a case of persistent cough cured with Thuja . Miss X., 19, fair, had for three months a painless, dry cough. The irritation was only in the throat. There were six small growths at the back of the throat, and one near the vocal cord. She never had a cough before. Has leucorrhœa green and excoriating; menses a little too early. Thuja 30 cured the growths and the cough in about three weeks. Old-school observers ( N. A. J. H ., xv. 63) have found in Thuja an efficient hæmostatic, locally applied, especially after tooth extraction. R. B. Johnstone ( H. P ., ix. 257) gives some indications for Thuja in hernia: ( 1 ) Women of sycotic history who have a tendency to left-side inguinal hernia after labour ( Thuja , high). ( 2 ) When babies cry much the umbilicus protrudes, growing red and sore; especially when the father has a sycotic history. ( 3 ) Left inguinal hernia in infants; child cries all the time, and is only quiet when the left inguinal region is relieved from pressure, or the thigh is flexed on the abdomen. Bœnninghausen observed this symptom of Thuja , which bears on the action of Thuja on the sides and roots of teeth (a sycotic symptom), rather than on the crowns: "on blowing nose, a pressing pain in the hollow tooth, at the side of it." The left ovarian pains of Thuja are remarkable. They are severe, sometimes burning, extend down thigh, any attempt at exercise and especially walking < ; they occur with every menstrual period, and are generally < before and during the flow. The pain compels the patient to lie down; but lying on left side < . A keynote of Thuja is: "Frequent micturition accompanying pains." For example: "In evening, when in bed, terrible hammering and tearing in the ear, accompanied with micturition every half-hour and coldness of the legs up to the knees. The desire of Thuja is sudden and urgent, it seems impossible to reach the vessel or make the necessary preparations, but the patient can control it if compelled. There is severe cutting as with a knife at the end of micturition after the last drop has passed. Thuja also has chronic incontinence from paralysis of sphincter vesicæ. This is related to the general paretic weakness of Thuja . The patient feels she "could not go on exerting any longer." Burnett ( H. W ., xxv. 487) records a case of lichen urticatus in a boy of fourteen, which came into his hands after a long course of treatment, external, internal, and dietetic, at the hands of allopathic specialists without result. The rash came periodically in warm weather; patient literally tore himself because of the irritation. The rash was < on the left (vaccinated side). Thuja 30 was given in infrequent doses. The spots continued to appear for a week and then disappeared. The skin remained clear in spite of the patient indulging in all kinds of previously forbidden foods. Among the skin effects of Thuja the marks and stains must be borne in mind. The skin is mottled and discoloured; brown or red mottled spots; discoloration of the backs of the hands and feet. — Villers ( J. of Hcs ., iv. 408) treated a girl of twelve, who had had headaches going from front to occiput and sometimes in temples. Pains mostly came towards night, and were accompanied with an awful state of fear. The only account she could give of her fear was that she saw green stripes . Alone or in company, in the dark or in a well-lighted room the dread was always the same. Three years before, the child had had an abortive attack of scarlatina, treated with cold compresses. The urine had been abnormal all through the illness, but contained no albumen. Thuja 200, every tenth day. No more headache, nor fear. Patient slept well from the first dose, and in a few days the urine became clear. "Floating stripes" before the vision is a symptom of Thuja. Peculiar Sensations are: As if a strange person were at her side. As if soul and body were separated. As if under the influence of a superior power. As if whole body were very thin and delicate; as if its continuity would be dissolved; as if frail and easily broken; as if made of glass. As if a nail were pressing into vertex. As if vertex were pressed with a needle. As if a nail were driven from within outward in vertex. As if a nail were driven into right parietal bone and left frontal eminence. Lightning-like headache. As if a convex button were pressed on left ear. As if head were screwed asunder. As if forehead would fall out. As if bones of head were being knocked to pieces. Forehead, ears, and eyes as if stabbed. As if knives went tearing around in brain. Scalp as if beaten. As if insects on occiput and temples. As if eyes were swollen and would be pressed out of head. As of fine sand in eyes. As if a cold stream of air were blowing through eyes. As if a foreign body in eye. As if flesh were being torn from bones in left side and back. As if abdominal muscles were being pushed out by arm of a child. As if a living animal were in abdomen. Sudden bounding in right iliac region as if something alive. As if blood could not circulate in back opposite pit of stomach. As if boiling lead were passed through rectum. As if anus would fly to pieces during stool. As if skin of anus were cracked and chapped. Bladder as if paralysed. As if moisture running in urethra. As if a tape prevented urination. As of a single drop running along urethra. As if testicles moved. As if something were grown fast in region of left lower ribs. As of falling drops in chest. Legs as if made of wood when walking. As if lower limbs were elongated. As if muscles of thigh would break down. Lightness in body when walking. As if flesh were beaten from bones. As if skin were pricked with needles. As from fleabites. A keynote of Cooper's for Thuja is, "its pains keep extending from their original site." Another indication of his is, "pains > by wrapping up." Thuja is Suited to: ( 1 ) Hydrogenoid constitutions (possessing "an increased capacity to contain water; hence rain, cold, damp weather, beds, and food that increase the number of molecules of water in the system < the symptoms"). ( 2 ) Strumous and sycotic persons. ( 3 ) Lax muscles; light hair; children. ( 4 ) Lymphatic temperament, in very fleshy persons, dark complexion, black hair, unhealthy skin. ( 5 ) Ailments from vaccination or from suppressed or maltreated gonorrhœa. Thuja is a strongly left-sided medicine (the left arm is usually vaccinated). The symptoms are: < By touch (scalp; vertex; eruption; anus; condylomata; = fingers to bleed); but > pain in eyebrow and in left malar bone. Pressure > . Rubbing > . Scratching > . Closing eyes < . Fall = wart-like growth ill labium. Overlifting < headache. Rest > headache. Bending head backward > headache. Lying on left side = anxious dreams. Lying on affected side > asthma. Motion < . Extension < . Letting arms hang down < . Walking < . Looking up > headache. Throwing head back > headache. Talking < asthma. Ascending = palpitation. Riding = incontinence of urine; < pain in ovary. < 3 a.m.; early morning (the sycotic time). < Night. < Cold water; cold: damp weather: change; draught; overheating; sun's rays. < Bright light. < Warmth of bed. Warmth < . Cold > rheumatism. < After breakfast, after eating; after tea; coffee; fat food; onions. < By coitus. < Blowing nose (pain in side of teeth). < Increasing moon. < Sun; bright light.

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Forgetfulness, could scarcely collect his senses for half an hour in morning on waking ; unable to go on with her dressing, constantly requires reminding.
Makes mistakes in talking, writing and looking.
In reading or writing uses wrong expressions, and omits words and syllables.
Commences every sentence anew without ability to finish it in spite of every effort of memory.
Stupefaction of head ; vertigo, reeling sensation, as after turning in a circle.
Cannot think, talks slowly as if hunting for words ; uses wrong words.
Mental dulness with pious fanaticism ; no desire to work ; anxious restlessness, sleeplessness, constipation and suppression of catamenia.
Very desponding. θ Gonorrhœa.
Sensation as if whole body were very thin and delicate, and could not resist least attack ; as if continuity of body would be dissolved. θ Chronic
hysteria.
Fixed ideas : as if a strange person were at his side ; as if soul and body were separated ; that body, particularly limbs, are made of glass and will readily break ; as if a living animal were in abdomen ; talks about being
under the influence of a superior power.
Imbecility of mind and loss of speech after vaccination ; restless sleep, fretfulness, peevishness ; cries all day ; eyes stare vaguely ; occasional flow of saliva from mouth ; looks like an idiot.
Insane women will not be touched or approached.
Nervousness to such a degree that approach of a stranger gave her sudden twitches ; when spoken to answered with tears and sobbing ; skin on chest and right side of abdomen deep yellow.
Walks her room in a circle ; inability to accomplish most simple work, even dressing ; makes no demand for food, has to be reminded to take it, which she does without reluctance ; several old warts on neck, and several of later growth, soft to touch, like lipoma and
pointed ; prolapsus vaginæ ; amenorrhœa.
Talks hastily and swallows words.
Thoughtlessness ; forgetfulness.
Hurried, with ill-humor ; talks hastily.
Speaks very slowly, and in monosyllables.
Music causes him to weep, with trembling of feet.
Disinclined to talk, < on awaking mornings.
Want of disposition to do anything, ill-humor, anger.
Indisposition to any kind of intellectual labor.
Mental depression, after childbirth, in consequence of being told that there had been a slight rupture of perineum ; grows quiet ; thinks she must die ; cannot sleep ; has no appetite ; shuns people ; does not answer ; seems not
to understand a question ; cannot count ; is in constant anguish ; wants to jump out of window ; does not care for children or her relatives ; stares before herself ; hydrogenoid constitution.
Very depressed, sad, irritable.
Exceedingly out of tune ; sad and disposed to weep.
Mental uneasiness ; low-spirited and desponding ; passionate ; tired of life ; morose ; dissatisfied ; unsteady.
Extremely scrupulous about small things. θ Hysteralgia.
Sleeplessness at night ; restlessness and tossing about ; anguish which does not allow him to sleep ; sleep full of dreams and startings.
Feels as if she cannot exist any longer ; quiet, shunning everybody.
Loathing of life ; very ill-humored and depressed.
Overexcited, quarrelsome ; easily angered about trifles.
The child is excessively obstinate.

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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 sycotic, constitution and the cancerous cachexia, weakly, cachectic, yellowish, or often very pallid.

The skin manifests many symptoms.

The perspiration is peculiar, it is sweetish honey, sometimes like garlic, strong and pungent.

A pungent odor emanates from the genitals, sweetish honey-like like odor to the sweat from the genitalia, he smells his genitals.

The odor is also like burnt horn, burnt feathers or burnt sponge. These peculiar strong odors are particularly present when there are fig warts upon the genitals such as Thuja cures.

The skin looks unhealthy everywhere about the body and there is a copious sweat on first going to sleep, like Arsenic. If you had only the waxiness such as Arsenic and Thuja produce, you might prescribe Arsenic. Arsenic is often the acute and Thuja the chronic. You remember that Arsenic is usually a chronic remedy.

A peculiar asthmatic condition is found in sycosis and Arsenic appears to be indicated for the symptoms, but it only relieves, it does not control the predisposition, it acts like Aconite in acute diseases and only ameliorates for a moment. Asthmatic and many other sycotic conditions seem to call for Arsenic, but it will do nothing but palliate, the constitutionality is not reached by Arsenic, its fundamental symptoms are not similar.

In syphilis and psora Arsenic acts a long time and eradicates the complaints, when similar to them, but it is not similar to sycosis. Arsenic does not go to the bottom of the trouble, but Thuja and Natrum sulph. will take up the work and cure. Natrum sulph. and Thuja bring back the primitive manifestation that has been suppressed for years.

The tendency of the Thuja patient is to throw out wart-like excrescences which are soft and pulpy and very sensitive, they burn, itch and bleed easily when rubbed the clothing. Horny excrescences that form on the hands and split open form upon a pedicle and crack around the base.

Cauliflower excrescences upon the cervix uteri, about the anus (like Nitricum acidum), about the labia majora and mucous membranes generally.

Horny excrescences, more upon the skin. Warts of a brownish color, especially if upon the abdomen the body; great brown spots, like liver spots, form upon the abdomen.

Zona around the chest, herpetic eruptions everywhere, here and there, like Sepia, herpes labialis and preputialis. Zona is a herpetic formation, great vesicular patches come out upon the body called "shingles", here we should compare Thuja, Rhus, Graph, Kali hydr., and Mezereum.

This condition is attended with a great amount of suffering and neuralgic pains. In cases that are sycotic, Thuya is especially a grand remedy.

You will have a class of cases where the warts have been caused to disappear by calomel, which makes them shrivel up and off, such is the old school treatment. Sometimes a patient comes to you with erratic symptoms and you may study for hours over these symptoms, and see very little order in them, you will realize that the leading features have been left out and that something is lacking.

Some one has applied Nitric acid, calomel or something else, and driven these fig warts away. These condylomata could not come without having some constitutional basis, these warts have a cause, and that cause seems to be less able to make the patient sick if he has the warts, he feels better when he has the warts. Strange to say; when these warts have been suppressed, we get symptoms of Nitric acid, Thuja, Mercurius and Staphysagria.

Thuja leads all medicines for symptoms coming from suppressed fig-warts.

Thuja is pre-eminently a strong medicine when you have a trace of animal poisoning in the history, as snake bite, small-pox and vaccination.

There are probably several varieties of urethral discharges, there is one that is sycotic, and when that has been suppressed, it produced a miasm with soreness in the bottom the feet and in the knees and particularly through the back and loins and sciatic nerves, in the knees and ankle joints.

Sometimes it affects the upper extremities, but particularly the lower. Most violent aggravation when keeping still, like Rhus, great aching that increases so long as he keeps still, he is very often compelled to keep the bed, and then he constantly moves and turns. An antisycotic must be selected.

While this group of symptoms would be cured by Rhus when the case is not sycotic, when these symptoms come from suppressed gonorrhoea Medorrhinum or Thuja will cure.

Thuja enters into this particular sphere and takes hold of this particular case where sycosis is at the bottom. Sometimes when the discharge has been suppressed, orchitis comes on and then Pulsatilla will be the remedy, and very seldom Thuja.

Thuja affects the left testicle with intense squeezing pain, but most generally you will find Pulsatilla the remedy.

As we continue to study Thuja, we see that it has a profound action upon the glands, stitching, tearing pains in the glands, the pains are as if the gland were being torn to pieces. That may be true of glands in general, but one particular gland, the ovary, is more affected than any other and especially the left.

This is so true, that if you meet a violent pain in the left ovary, coming on at the time of menstruation and continuing during the flow and extending down the thighs, but may be in every direction, it increases as the flow comes on, stinging, tearing, burning, bursting pains, as if the parts were being torn out, make her cry aloud, she goes into a hysterical state. This a very strong Thuja group. It has the opposite of Zinc., and Lachesis, for in these, relief comes with the flow.

Many women suffer from grumbling pains in the ovaries all the time, they have a sense of the organ, which they should not feel; pain from taking cold or in change of weather; the increase of the pain in the left ovary is the first sign; sometimes the pain is so severe that the right one suffers apparently, from sympathy. Where the ovaries have been affected for some time there will be mental symptoms, a most violent irritability, jealous, quarrelsomeness, ugliness.

This irritability is likely to been shown towards individuals about the house, toward the husband and the mother; she is yet able to control herself among strangers and the doctor may not be able to find out about it, because she has in her nature a disposition to cheat; she wants to be alone and takes upon herself fixed ideas; that she is pregnant, or that an animal is in her bowels, she is followed, or that someone is walking beside her, thinks that soul and body are separated.

Now, these are fixed ideas, and there is no use trying to reason them out of her. It seems to her that she is very delicate, that she is made of glass and that she will break. The idea is that she will break, and not that she is transparent.

Associated with this conditions, we have violent, intense, tearing headaches, tearing in the eye, ameliorated by heat. The eye-ball pains are better from heat and the rest are better in the cool open air.

Pain localized in small spots. A nail driven in the head, side of head and forehead, like Ignatia and Anacardium. These pains are intensified into tearing pains, and affect the eye-ball, making it so sore that it can hardly be touched; worse from heat and worse from lying down; worse in a warm room and better in the open air.

Rheumatic head symptoms are worse in damp air. They are worse from sour things and also from stimulating and exciting things.

Crude drugs do not impress the vital force, so lastingly, but an individual who is thoroughly sensitive and properly sensitive, as sensitive of contagion, then if you undertake to prove by giving it night and morning, you will rivet upon him a life-long miasm.

If you have given a medicine, wait for the symptoms to come and go in the natural manner. To a great extent t, this is the tendency with sycosis, the tendency is rather outward.

We see in the proving of a drug what we see in disease. When a gonorrhoea is contracted, it goes through the prodromal period and then comes the disease, which, if let alone, has in its nature a tendency to eradicate itself from the economy, and then the patients do not suffer from lasting conditions.

In the old school, they always suppress the discharge, and there are those in the new school who do little better.

The frequent repetition by which one is exposed, would not increase the gonorrhea itself, because the susceptibility is satisfied.

The taking of more of the drug to prove it does not do so much harm, provided the one who is directing the proving realizes when the symptoms begin to rise, and then stops the drug.

Now if we go on with the proving by repeating the doses after the symptoms come on, we force the drug into the economy when he is already poisoned, and by this means we get a confusion in the symptoms, the drug disease engrafted upon that individual for life.

Many of the provings of Thuja give us that kind of confusion, so that we see only now and then symptoms cropping out that are striking; in fact, the great bulk of the Thuja provings has been wasted, because there is so much confusion in the great number of symptoms, while the earlier provings brought out many of the characteristics, the Vienna provings, to a great extent, confused the image of Thuja.

So that, by clinical experience only, we have been able to draw out the finer features of Thuja. It requires more than a school boy to do that. The new provings must be carried on in a different manner.

Thuja has some striking bowel symptoms; gushing, watery morning diarrhoea, like water coming out of a bunghole.

There is also a general catarrhal condition running through the body; catarrh of the nose, ears and chest. In the catarrh of the chest it produces an intense hacking cough, with expectoration in the morning of greenish mucus, sometimes a copious expectoration. It is often suited to old cases of pneumonia, in such individuals as have suppressed gonorrhoea, fig-wart gonorrhoea.

The kidneys and urinary symptoms are also striking; congestion and inflammation of the kidneys, sharp pain in the kidneys; burning urine; inflammation of the bladder and urethra that is not gonorrhoeal; pus from the bladder; paralysis of the bladder, must wait a long time for the urine to start; retention of urine, continuous urging to urinate, tearing in the urethra, feeling as if the urine were constantly running along the urethra, like Kali bich. and Petros.

In the urethral disease of sycotic character, Thuja leads all other remedies. In the non-sycotic variety, Cannabis sativa is sufficient, but those cases that have proved to the sycotic Cann. sat. left uncured, it ameliorated the burning during and after urination and the thick yellowish green discharge, but some other remedy had always to follow, when they were shown to be sycotic. It is not so with Thuja, because it is capable of finishing the case.

In the most violent cases, with bloody urine, extreme salacity, great torment, bloody, watery discharge from the urethra and bladder, no rest day or night, Cantharis comes in, it is capable of finishing the case in a few days. Such a patient must be in excellent health, which is not generally the case. They are drinking men and smokers.

Tobacco is one of the most troublesome things you will run across, many cases will not recover promptly if they are tobacco users and great smokers, wine drinkers or convivial men, they run around a good deal mc and are high livers and with such you have a slow case on hand.

With the system so broken down front high living, you may not get a decided curative action until you have forced him to abandon his way of living. Put him on light diet, diminish his smoking, get rid entirely of the drinking, and put him on a perfectly bland living.

This is the first thing. If he is a man of family we have to contend with great mental distress, and not less so if a woman. So it may well be said, that usually the sycotic miasm is a troublesome one to begin with and one that will bother the young physician.

You cannot substitute the right method for a wrong one, which will make him a cripple for life.

The suppression of the disease, as usually tried, cannot be thought of by the sincere and earnest homeopath.

If he wants it checked suddenly, let him go somewhere else, but warn him what will take place, and he will have untold disease and suffering.

Adapted to the hydrogenoid constitution of Grauvogl, related to sycosis as effect is to cause. It possesses a capacity to contain water; hence rain, cold, damp weather, baths, and food that increases the amount of water in the system < the symptoms of the hydrogenoid constitution.

Thuja bears the same relation to the sycosis of Hahnemann—figwarts, condylomata and wart-like excrescences upon mucous and cutaneous surfaces—that Sulphur does to psora or Mercury to syphilis.

Acts well in lymphatic temperament, in very fleshy persons, dark complexion, black hair, unhealthy skin.

Ailments: from bad effects of vaccination (Ant. t., Sil.); from suppressed or maltreated gonorrhœa (Med.).

Fixed ideas: as if a strange person were at his side; as if soul and body were separated; as if a living animal were in abdomen; of being under the influence of superior power.

Insane women will not be touched or approached.

Vertigo, when closing the eyes (Lach., Ther.).

Headache: as if a nail had been driven into parietal bone (Coff., Ign.); or as if a convex button were pressed on the part; < from sexual excesses; overheating; from tea (Sel.); chronic, of sycotic or syphilitic origin.

White scaly dandruff; hair dry and falling out.

Eyes: ophthalmia neonatorum, sycotic or syphilitic; large granulations, like warts or blisters; > by warmth and covering; if uncovered, feels as if a cold stream of air were blowing out through them.

Eyelids: agglutinated at night; dry, scaly on edges; styes and tarsal tumors; chalazæ, thick, hard knots, like small condylomata; after Staphisagria partially > but does not cure.

Ears: chronic otitis; discharge purulent, like putrid meat; granulations, condylomata; polypi, pale red, cellular, bleeding easily.

Teeth decay at the roots, crowns remain sound (Mez.—on edges, Staph.); crumble, turn yellow (Syph.).

Toothache from tea drinking.

Abdomen: as if an animal were crying; motion as of something alive; protrudes here and there like the arm of a fetus (Croc., Nux m.).

Distressing, burning pain in left ovarian region when walking or riding, must sit or lie down (Croc., Ust.); worse at each menstrual nisus.

Constipation : violent pains in rectum compel cessation of effort ; stool recedes, after being partly expelled (Sanic., Sil.).

Piles swollen, pain most severe when sitting.

Diarrhœa : early morning ; expelled forcibly with much flatus (Aloe);

3 A. M., characteristic; 10 A. M., 3 P. M., 5, 6, 7, 7:30 P. M. After midnight.

Fever without chill 10 to 11 A. M., or 10 to 11 P. M. (Cac.—12 M. and 12 P. M., Sul.).

The indication is more certain if the system be contaminated with sycotic or gonorrhœal poison. Always chilly from least change of weather.

Chilly and weak some time before the paroxysm.

With thirst. Chill beginning in the thighs. Violent shaking chill, for a quarter of an hour, about 3 A. M., followed by thirst, then profuse perspiration all over except on the head. Shaking chill, with much yawning; warm air seems cold and the hot sun does not warm him. Shivering through and through, from the slightest uncovering of the body in warm air (shivering from the slightest contact with the open air, Nux—great aversion to cold air, Camph.—chill as soon as he gets out of bed, Canth.). Chilliness every evening from 6 to 7:30, with excessive heat of the body, dryness of the mouth, and thirst. Chill of left side of the body, which felt cold to the touch (Carbo v., Caust., Lyc.). About 7 P. M., shaking chill, beginning in thighs, with blueness of nails, chattering of teeth, rapid and difficult respiration, for half an hour; then thighs hot, like a glowing coal, with cold hands and feet; gradually became warm, though had a shaking chill every time he moved (Nux); fell asleep after two hours, and awoke in a profuse perspiration—had to change his shirt eight times up to 3 A. M.—with headache, mild delirium and some thirst. Morning headache, chill at 10 A. M., lasting till noon, followed by heat, nausea, constant one-sided headache, and repeated bilious vomiting and diarrhœa in the evening. Chill internal, with external heat and violent thirst—chill, then sweat (Ant. t.).

With thirst, neither preceded nor followed by chilliness. Sensation of burning heat in the face, which causes neither real heat, redness nor perspiration, with icy cold hands. Burning heat only in the face and cheeks, lasting the whole day (Bell., Cal.). Dry heat of covered parts. Heat mornings, chill afternoons. Deadness of fingers (Ced., Sep.).

Only on uncovered parts ; or all over, except the head* (reverse of Sil.). Sweat, when he sleeps, stops when he awakens (reverse of Samb.). Chill, then sweat (Ant. t., Ipec.). Profuse night-sweat, staining the clothes yellow, as if saturated with oil (Bell.—as if mixed with oil, Cinch.). Sour-smelling or fetid sweat almost every night (Arn., Lyc., Nat.). Scrotum, perinæum and inner surface of the thighs dripping with sweat (Hep., Petr.). Profuse night-sweat, so that he changes his shirt several times at night. Sweat on side not lain on (Benz., San.). Congestion of blood to the head*.

**Full and accelerated in the evening; slow and weak in the morning; throbbing in blood vessels; swelling of the veins.

* Swollen, clean or red, the tip is painfully sore to the touch*. Vesicles or blisters on the margin. Bitter, sour, taste; had to get up at night and rinse out the mouth (Nux). Ranula: bluish, or varicose veins on tongue or in mouth (Amb.).

Thuja helped in some cases, where the fever consisted in mere chills, with external and internal coldness (with thirst in same), followed by general sweat, without any previous heat.—Ann.,—II, p. 398.

Andrew Mc——, æt. 26, a resident of East Saginaw, Michigan. Eight years ago had intermittent fever, which was "broke up" with massive doses of Quinine, only to return from time to time, especially every Spring and Autumn, to be again suppressed in a similar manner with Quinine. When fever first appeared, paroxysm came every alternate day, at 10 to 11 A. M., attended with bone pains, violent headache, and at times nausea and vomiting.

February, 1882.—Has now had chills and fever every day for seven weeks. Chill from 5 to 7 P. M.; severe, shaking; must sit close to stove, although external heat does not relieve. Chill begins in knees and thighs, and gradually extends to hips, thence over body, lasting one to two hours. Some thirst in chill, but drinking aggravates. Heat, with thirst; drinking refreshes; continues until 1 or 2 A. M.; very restless, severe headache. Sweats: profusely on his legs, where chill began; less on his body; never on his head; when he sleeps, ceases when he wakes. Tongue clean; appetite and digestion good, and feels perfectly well as soon as paroxysm is over. The chill beginning in knees and thighs, the time of its appearance the character of the sweating stage, and the entire freedom from ill-feeling during apyrexia, determined the selection of Thuja³⁰, four doses during intermission. Cured.—H. C. ALLEN, Medical Advance, XII., p. 296.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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 alæ, often moist; the latter worse from excesses.
Painful scabs in nostrils.

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.

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

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.

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.

Aphthæ; ulcers in the mouth.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Stitches in hypochondria, now right, then left.

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 fœtus; 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 pale; yellow, watery, expelled forcibly, with much noisy flatus, with blood; oily or greasy; gurgling, like water from a bung-hole.
Diarrhœa: 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.

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.

Nightly painful erections, causing sleeplessness.
Round, unclean, elevated ulcers, surrounded with redness; moist, painful.
Chancres, with pains, as from a splinter sticking.
Gonorrhœa: scalding, when urinating; urethra swollen, urinal stream forked; discharge yellow, green, watery; often with warts; with red erosions on the glands.
Checked gonorrhœa, 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.

Embrace prevented by extreme sensitiveness of vagina.
Menses too short and too early; preceded by profuse sweat.
Erosions at the os uteri, like aphthæ.
Mucous leucorrhœa.
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 vulvæ.
Condylomata, moist, suppurating, stinging and bleeding.
Erectile tumors, with burning.

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.

Sensation as of a skin in larynx.

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.

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.

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

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.

Skin on clavicles blue.

Cervical glands swollen.
Skin on neck brown, greasy.
Burning from small of back to between scapulæ.
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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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 gonorrhœa, etc. See: 48.

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.

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.

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: 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.

Periodically: 29. Third month: 24.

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

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

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

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.
Nævus.
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; diarrhœa; restlessness; trembling; neuralgia; paresis, etc.

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.

A tincture is made of the fresh leaves of the arbor vitæ, Thuja occidentalis, L.

It appears to act vigorously on the genito-urinary tract, producing urethritis (closely simulating gonorrhœa) as well as vesical catarrh. ▶ It is believed to have caused excrescences similar to figwarts and other symptoms allied to the sequelæ of gonorrhœa, and in some degree to syphilis.

Aur., Nit. ac., Sulph., Puls., Ign.

Swelling of veins, agg. arm. ▶ Odor of the prover intolerably increased. ▶ Intermittent trembling. ▶ Jerking in upper part of body during the day; in flexors of left thumb, in right cheek and under scapulæ; sudden cramplike, of under lip in evening and here and there in circumscribed spots on skin. ▶ Walking seems very easy, as if she had wings. ▶ Delightful feeling of corporeal well-being in afternoon, with inclination to intellectual labor.

Stitches in all parts; in and on almost every part; in left palm, right shoulder and near pit of chin; in different parts, elbow, tibia, nipple, chin, scrobiculus, scapula, shoulder-joints; in forehead and different parts, agg. shoulder, arms and thigh; (in ear, lower jaw, splenic region hip-joint, iliac region, middle of thigh and leg, tarsus, shoulder-joint upper arm, forearm and metacarpus), agg. right side; flying, in different parts; now in left knee, now in head and now in elbow and finger-joints in evening; now here, now there, with tearing; and tearing, sometimes in the same part, sometimes in others (ear, ear-cartilage, ala of nose, near sternum, in epigastrium, in epigastrium, between scapulæ) and sometimes in all limbs, in evening in bed.

Tearing in concha, eyeball, pit of stomach, scapulæ, shoulder and hip-joints, thigh from ischium to knee, leg, arm and forearm; (in small of back, nape, over temple, in knee, tarsi and some phalanges of fingers), agg. right side; T., drawing or sticking, with attacks of vertigo and stiffness in feet and back to nape; alternating with drawing, pain, agg. limbs, agg. rest, but also in right tibia when walking, making me limp. ▶ Drawing tearing now her, now there, on left side of body; in right arm, agg. along ulnar nerve, in right thigh, right zygoma and right side of chest, after rising, then less in left side of body.

Pinching and pressing pain under shoulder, in dorsum of foot and different parts of external chest. ▶ Twitching pain as if tendons of patellæ were drawn out and then suffered to return, when sitting and walking and a similar pain in temples. ▶ Pain as from a thrust in spots on chest and limbs, agg. touch. ▶ Shocks in insolated muscular parts, agg. middle of upper part of right thigh and left arm. ▶ Crawling pain. ▶ Sensitiveness to touch. ▶ Muscular pains were generally in the middle instead of in tendinous portions. ▶ Pressure in various parts, with scraping prickling, seeming to be in bones. ▶ Bruised sensation in small of back and in feet.

Drawing pain in different parts; in arms and feet and especially in small of back, at night; now here, now there; flying, in various parts, agg. hands; in right thumb when writing, then in index, later in middle and finally in little finger, and in afternoon in left arm, shifted to upper part of left thigh, then in mastoid processes, then in frontal eminence, where it was more of a digging twitching, finally in limbs, next day the pains wandered about next forenoon it was for several hours near left wrist and the afternoon in upper part of left thigh; tearing, during rest, sometimes in frontal eminences and occipital protuberances, sometimes in middle of left arm and thigh.

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General one-sided character of the symptoms, particularly the left side.
Symptoms < afternoon and night, particularly about 3 o'clock and also evening, and < warmth of the bed, > rest.
General aversion to motion.

Ill humor; sadness.
Loathing of life.
Discontented and disinclination to talk.

Clinical:
Melancholia, with fixed ideas.
Emotional sensitiveness; music causes weeping and trembling.
Persistent delusions of a living animal in the abdomen, or that his soul was severed from his body.

Headache as though a nail were piercing the vertex, or left frontal eminences or right parietal bone.
A feeling of numbness in the brain; heaviness of the occiput.
The vertex sensitive to touch, with sharp pains at night, extending over the whole head.

Redness and burning; lachrymation in the open air.
Dryness, with stinging pains.
Swelling and inflammation of the margins of the lids, with burning stinging pains.

Clinical:
Ciliary neuralgia, with soreness.
Kerato-iritis, episcleritis.
Iritis, syphilitic pains, aggravated at night.

Ulceration in the nostrils.
Soreness and ulceration of the nostrils, < pressure.
Painful pressure at the root of the nose.
Dry catarrh in the upper part, < evening and night.
Dryness and stoppage of the nose, and formation of painful scabs.

Burning heat and redness of the face.
The blood vessels of the face and temples become distended.
Sweat of the face, especially of the side upon which he does not lie.
Boring pains in the malar bone; > pressure.
Toothache, caused by tea drinking.
Gums swollen and sore.
Tip of the tongue painfully sore, with blisters on the sides.
Mouth filled with blisters as if it had been burnt.

Bitter or rancid eructations, especially after eating fat food.
Eructations of food.

Flatulent symptoms, with colic; especially a feeling as if there were a living animal in the bowels.
Indurations form in the walls of the abdomen, as if pushed out by a living child in the uterus, without pain.
Swelling of inguinal glands.

Hæmorrhoids.
Discharge of bloody mucus constantly from the anus.
Soreness and shooting pain as if skin were cracked.
Sense of constriction with every stool.
Burning and stinging in the anus, extending to the small of the back.
Condylomata.

Clinical:
Diarrhœa, watery, forcible, aggravated after breakfast.
Evacuations often greasy.

Loss of tone in the bladder; urine dribbles after urinating; must urinate many times before the bladder is emptied.
Frequent micturition at night.
Sensation in the urethra, as if drops of urine ran down after urinating.
Discharge of glutinous moisture from urethra.

Foul smelling moisture exudes from the glans.
Burning between glans and prepuce.
Condylomata on inner surface of prepuce.
Unnatural perspiration on the scrotum and inside of the thighs.
Swelling and soreness of the pudenda; condylomata.

Dry hacking cough from becoming heated, afternoon at 3 P. M.
Cough, with yellowish expectoration, pain in the pit of the stomach.
Breathing short, oppressed, with sensations of adhesions in the chest.
Stitches in the chest; < cold drinks.
Sense of rush of blood to the chest, with audible palpitation.

Tension and stiffness of the nape.
Drawing pains in the back when sitting.
Drawing in the sacrum, coccyx and thighs, so that after sitting a long time he could scarcely stand erect.

Numerous pains in the upper and lower extremities; muscular twitchings, weakness and trembling.
Painful swelling and redness of the tips of the fingers, which are often cold and feel dead.
Painful, inflamed swelling and redness of the back of foot and tips of the toes.

Wart-like excrescences.
Painful sensitiveness, with stinging itching.
The skin symptoms are particularly < touch.

Orgasm of blood in the evening, with throbbing in the blood vessels.
Chilliness without thirst.
Heat in the evening, mostly in the face.
Perspiration at the beginning of sleep; particularly on the uncovered parts; covered parts remain dry.

Thuj. / (1st T-Arbor.) / The Thug.

Thuja,-When we have suppression,
Of a gonorrhoeal flow;
And the evils, that so often
Out of vaccination grow.
When we see the fig wart flourish,
See the growing fungus shoots;
See the hair a mass of tangle,
Teeth decaying at the roots.
When a vertigo assails us,
On the closing of our eyes'
And our body seeming brittle,
Breakable by exercise.
When our sweat is fetid-sour,
Flesh feels beaten from the bones;
And at night from heat of bedding,
We are tortured into groans.
When our eyes are dry and scaly,
And our ears discharging pus;
Then we think of Arbor vitae,
As an angel sent to us.

The Thug,-Has tangled, matted hair.

The Thug, Bovis, is with Flora Lee, at Bacil.

This Thug,- Who is subject to growth of warts,-Is at Nathan Nick's, with a load of sabina roots, from the coast of Staffa.

Matted, Tangled Hair: Thuj., Bovis., Fl. a., Lyc., Bacil. (Hair too abundant, or in tufts, out of place, Thuj. Split, Thuj.)

Warts: Thuj., Nat. m., Nit. a., Lyc., Dul., Sabin., Ruta., Caust., Stap. (Cancer wart, Ferr. pic., Thuj. Stem warts, Nit. a., Thuj., Stap., Sabin. On the palms of the hand, Nat. c., Nat. m., Ruta. On the back of the hand, Dul.)

Indicated in the complications or sequelae of gonorrhoea (fig-warts, gonorrhoeal rheumatism and ovaritis, etc.) and the bad effects of vaccination. Used in syphilitic iritis and other complaints resting upon a syphilitic base; gonorrhoea with thin, greenish discharge and scalding during micturition. Has done good work in neuralgic headaches and in neuralgia in other parts (facial, ciliary). Adapted to the so-called hydrogenoid constitution; acts well in stout persons of dark complexion, lymphatic temperament and unhealthy skin.

Wart-shaped excresences, especially on hands and genitals; figwarts.

Fungoid growths which bleed from the slightest touch.

Sweating; only on uncovered parts; on perinaeum; on genitals. Sweat smells sour (on genitals); like honey; fetid on the feet.

Nails brittle, deformed.

Burning, darting pain in the outer parts and in the joints.

Urine high-colored and strong; severe cutting pain after urinating.

Sensation as if water were trickling down the urethra; after urinating.

Neuralgia with extreme soreness and stabbing pain; worse from touch and motion.

Extreme sensitiveness of the vagina (during coition).

Diarrhoea, chronic; stools watery, gushing, greasy; with gurgling as though water were poured from the bunghole of a barrel.

Worse at night; from damp and cold; from coffee; from vaccination.

Fixed ideas, that a stranger is always at his side, that mind and body are separated. Vacancy in head, with inability to think. Slow speech, with frequent interruption, because he is obliged to hunt for his words. Restlessness. Great depression. He meditates over every tiff, with anxious concern for the future. Dejection. Satiety of life. He imagines his limbs are made of glasses or that they are brittle.

On closing eyes, immediately better on opening them again. When rising from sitting. As though' he were rocked.

Feeling of numbness and emptiness and inverted. Violent congestion. Heaviness in occiput early in morning, with peevishness and taciturnity. Numbness in brain. Pair as if a nail were driven into vertex. Pressive ache, as of a nail being driven into vertex. Worse: Early on awaking and toward evening, motion. Better: Uncovering head, after sweat. Motion in open air, looking upwards, bending head backwards.

Painfulness of scalp, when touched, and of the parts of which he lies. He always desire to have the head closely wrapped up. (Lach., Rhus-t.) Corrosive eating or painfulness of side lain on. Violent burning or tearing stitches on, mostly in region of temples (l.) Crawling, eating or sticking itching, as of vermin on occiput and temples, scratching helps but develops a moist burning or sticking eruption which covers itself with crusts. Worse: Warmth of bed, lying on part, evening, night, three PM. Better: Touch, pressure, rubbing.

Suffused, especially in the open air, the tears do not flow down, but remain in the eyes. Inflammatory relaxation of the inner surface of the lid Burning in. Tearing in, in open air. Red sclerotic. Inflammatory swelling of lids. Short - sight. Vision: On one side, near they eye, an appearance in darkness as of flashes of lightning or of sparks, in day light as of dark drops. Objects always appear smaller. (Plat., Stram.)

Cramp - like pain in external. Stitches extending from throat into. Noise in, as of boiling water.

Warts on. Eruptions in angles of. Swelling and hardness of alae. Odor in, as of herring bring or fermenting beer. Nose bleed when overheated. Painful bloody crusts in. Blowing blood from. In room stuffed coryza with headache, in open air fluent coryza. Fluent coryza and sneezing give immediate relief. Much mucus in choncha.

Glowing redness of whole f. with a fine network of blood vessels, as if it were marbled. Eruption on, leaving bluish spots. Light brown spots (freckles) on. The skin of, is oily. The skin of, scabs off. Distension of veins of temples. Burning heat and redness of. Flushes of heat in. Pimples on. Sweat on, especially on side on which he does not lie. Swelled temporal arteries. Boring pain in zygoma, better from touch. Twitchings in lips. Pimples on upper lip and chin. Lips, etc.: Flat whitish ulcers on inner side of lips and in corners of mouth. Cracking in maxillary joint.

Crumbling. Decaying at roots. Become hollow on the side, while the crown is not affected. Eating, gnawing pain in hollow t., worse cold. Biting gnawing in, worse from cold food, drinks and chewing. Toothache from drinking tea. Painful soreness and swelling of gums.

Painful soreness of throat when swallowing saliva. Vesicles and thrush in. Swelled tongue. Ranula under tongue. Slow speech. Gelatinous ranula. Swelling and feeling of obstruction in throat.

Painful swallowing, worse empty swallowing or swallowing saliva only. Noisy swallowing.

Painful pressure in pit. Cramps every evening. Indurated. Epigastrium is drawn in.

Appetite: Quickly satiated. Desire for cold food and drinks. Bad effects of fat food and onions. Intense thirst, especially at night and early in morning Aversion to potatoes. Bad effects of tea, sugar or onions.

Taste: Flat. Food is tasteless, as though' not salted. When chewed, food becomes quite cry. Bread tastes dry and bitter. Like rotten eggs in mouth in AM

Eructations: While eating. Bitter. Rancid, after fat food. Tasting of ingesta. Vomiting: Greasy.

Inflation of Bellyache. Sense of something alive, or a child's knee pushing outward within. Agg. after midnight. Indurations in. Colic from intussusception (Lyc.) and twisting of intestines. Painful swelling of inguinal glands. Zona. Yellow, or brownish spots on. Soreness of navel. Flatulence like the crying of an animal in.

Ineffectual urging accompanied by erections. Diarrhoea recurring at the same hour in AM Fat, oily stools, obstinate constipation, as from inactivity or intussusception of bowels. Difficult passage of a hard, thick, nodular stool.

Contraction of. Fig. Warts about Rectal fistula. Offensive sweat at a and between nates. Painful contraction of, at stool. Condylomata about. Soreness of perineum: Sweat on. Knotty puffiness and excoriations on.

Profuse discharge of With a cloudy sediment. Burning and itching in urethra Dribbling after urination continued. Frothy urine. Saccharine urine. Worse from 5 to nine PM, better lying.

Swelled prepuce Figwarts (Merc-c.) on glans, prepuce, or female genitals, which exude moisture and pus, especially during the increasing moon Sycotic gonorrhea. Gonorrhea of glans. Copious watery discharge from penis Stitches in penis, with urging to urinate Sensation, as through' drop trickled along urethra. Profuse sweat on scrotum. Painful nightly erections. Swelling and excoriation of labia. Genitals: Copious sweat on, of a sweet honey like odor, staining yellow. Abortion in 3rd month.

Anxious oppression of, with violent thirst for cold water. Dyspnoea, From accumulation of mucus in trachea, from fullness and constriction in hypochondria and epigastrium, as if lungs adhered to thorax. Short and difficult.

From being over - heated. Cough, with yellowish mucous expectoration and pains in epigastrium, in afternoon and at night, always toward three o'clock. Only a day time, also after rising in AM and after lying down in evening, but seldom at night. During evening cough, after lying down the sputa are dislodged more easily when he turns from the left side of the right Expectoration, tasting like old cheese.

Compression of, with a sensation as though' something were adherent therein. Stitches in, after cold drinks. Strong ebullition of blood within, with violent, audible palpitation. Blueness of skin audible palpitation. Blueness of skin over clavicles. Sensation of a hot rising in of drops falling in. Brownish spots on. Heart: Anxious palpitation in morning on awaking.

Boils. Pressive pain in region of kidneys. Crampy pain in lumbar region. Burning from sacrum up to scapula. Throbbing and pulsation in.

Neck: Blue distended veins on. Tension in skin of nape.

Sticking pain in arms and their joints. Muscular twitches in arms. Distension of blood vessels of arms. Cold sweat on hands. Painful swelling and redness of finger tips Coldness and deadness of fingers and fingers tips. Herpes: On elbow, white scabby on back of hands and on fingers. Brown color on back of hands. Warts on hands. Erysipelatous swelling of finger tips, with formication in them. Finger nails, distorted, crumbling and discolored.

Stitches in muscles and joints of legs. Weariness of legs when ascending steps. Red, mottled spots on backs of feet. Painful, inflammatory swelling and redness of backs of feet and tips of toes. Frost bites. Laxness in hip joints. Legs feel as if made of wood when walking. Pain in the hip, the limb becomes larger than before. The skin becomes brown, especially on inner side of thigh The back of the foot looks mottled, with a network of blood - vessels. Burning corns. Red swelling of ends of toes. The toenails are brittle and distorted. Offensive sweating of toes. Suppressed footsweat.

Jerkings, especially in upper part of body. Stitches in limbs and joints. Asleep sensation in limbs. Averse to motion. Symptoms are often unilateral especially on left side. Warmth of bed intensifies many symptoms Attacks are usually worse in afternoon and at night, always toward three o'clock and also in evening, and are better during rest. Sensation of water tricking in many parts. Emaciation rapid and the affected parts look dead. Frequent starting up of the trunk. Flesh feels beaten loose from the bones. Light feeling of body when walking. Sense of tenderness and fragility of body. Cracking of joints when they are extended. Abuse of Sulph. and Mercury. Symptoms recur yearly. Pains in spots Great prostration. Cold moisture worse warm moisture better. Eructations as well as fluent coryza with sneezing afford instant relief. Many symptoms are relieved by turning from left to right side while lying down. Bad effects of the use of beer, fat, acids, sweets, tobacco, tea, wine and onions.

Rachitis.

Dirty brown color of Brownish spots on. Brown - red or brown - white spots on. Fine network of blood vessels, like a mantling. Eruption on covered parts only. Vesicles. Varicella. All eruptions burn violently after cold washing. Condylomata, often smelling like old cheese or herring brine. Large, jagged, often pediculated warts which become moist and bleed easily. Itching scabby herpes. Dry pityriasis throwing off whitish scabs. Herpes circinatus. Flat ulcers with a bluish white bottom. Corrosive itching. Better scratching, but then followed by burning. Luxuriant growth of hair on parts usually hairless. Sticking itching. Painful sensitiveness. The skin symptoms especially (but also many others) are better by touch. Fig - warts. Distend veins under.

Continued sleeplessness with painfulness of parts lain on. Sleeplessness visions appear as soon as eyes close but leave on opening them. Zoster. Late falling to, on account of restlessness and dry heat. Jerking during. Unrefreshing. because of many anxious dreams. Anxious dreams when lying on left side. Lascivious dreams, with painful erections.

Pulse: Intermittent. Slow and weak in morning, accelerated and full in evening. Violent ebullition of blood in evening. Strong throbbing in arteries. Great distension of arteries. Chill: Cold creeping often run through' back, in evening and night. Chill as if dashed in cold water. Attacks of c., at different times of day, mostly toward evening. On left side of body which is cold to touch. Without thirst after midnight and early in morning. Internal, with external heat and great thirst. Heat: Dry, during sleep. In evening, especially on face. Burning in face without redness thereof. Dry, of covered parts. Sweat: Staining brownish yellow. On first going to sleep. Of uncovered parts of body, with dry head of covered parts, but also the reveres. Anxious, sometimes cold s. Immediately after the chill, without heat. Often greasy, sometimes offensive or smelling sweetish like honey. Copious, before menses. Cadaverous odor of skin. General sweat, except on head. Most copious on upper part of body: During sleep, ceasing at once on awaking. Copious, chiefly on head, when walking in open air in morning.

Allied Remedies: Anac., Ant-c., AP., ARS., Bar-c., BELL., Calc-c. Cam., Carb-a., Carb-v. Caust., Chin., Euphr. Ferr., GRAPH., Hep., Iod., Kali-c., Lach., Lyc., Merc., MEZ., Nat-s., Nit-ac., Petr., PHOS, Phos-ac., Plat., Plb., Puls., Rhus-t., SENEG., Sep., Sil., Spig., Staph., Sul.

Complementary: Nat-m., Nit-ac., Puls., Sil., SUL.

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 of the uncovered parts and dryness of the covered parts.

Fistula in ano benefitted.

Useful in removing many of the symptoms of gonorrhoea (inferior to medorrhinum).

Painful swelling and redness of the points of the fingers.

Ranula (bluish).

Of great usefulness in the cure of warts in any part of the body.

Curative in frequent, small, painful bowel movements.

Long lasting gleet after gonorrhoea (but inferior to medorrhinum).

Troublesome, slight, long-lasting cough.

Loose bowels.