THUJA.
GENERALITIES.
►
Dresses have become loose (eighty-fourth day), [42]. ► Strong
sulphurous odor in the axillæ on undressing, in the evening, which
gradually recurs, and at times extends over the whole spine (in a woman
who, several years before, took several sulphur baths), [12]. ► The
odor of the prover was exceedingly, almost intolerably, increased, so as
to become perceptible to those about (after twelve hours), [68]. [2810.]
► A peculiar spoiled, cadaverous odor
from the whole body, without perspiration, [12]. ► The
effect of revaccination is changed; three persona who had taken a dose
of Thuja, four to eight weeks previously, exhibited peculiar symptoms on
revaccination; at first the vaccine developed in the usual acute manner,
but after four days it began to be indistinct, and disappeared rapidly
in a way never before observed under similar conditions without he
action of the drug; but the cure, which was progressing previously, was
seriously interrupted by this continued poisoning, so that afterwards
the cure was more difficult and more prolonged, and especially the
weakness of mind rapidly approached idiocy, [12]. ► Chlorosis,
with œdematous swelling, first of the face, then in both lower
extremities, about the abdomen, with menstruation at the right time, and
profuse and watery (sixth week), [12].
► Swelling of the veins, especially
of the arm (fortieth day), [52]. ► Violent indescribable pain in the left
side of the forehead wakes him at night from a restless sleep, he
becomes affected by an unaccountable awkwardness in all his accustomed
movements (thirtieth day); the two next days this awkwardness increases
more and more, until in the evening of the third day he has a sensation
of complete paralysis of the right arm; the arm feels and moves as if it
did not belong to him, of which he was conscious, without ability to
alter it, with great general lassitude, dulness of the head,
disagreeable voice, and extreme ill-humor; this continued more or less
severe till 11 P.M. of the fifth day, when he was suddenly seized with
the most violent convulsions, beginning with extremely painful flexion
of the toes of the right foot, extending thence to the right side
upward, which became quite stiff, extended, and rigid, causing loud
cries, arrest of breath, and at last mounting into the head, which
jerked back and forth incessantly, and he lost consciousness; on
returning to himself, five hours later, he found himself fallen out of
bed, lying on the floor, bathed in perspiration, with complete paralysis
of the right leg, from the foot to the knee; it also felt cold and dead
and as heavy as a hundredweight, and he was unable to stand or move;
after a sleep of two hours he was able to rise and drag the paralyzed
limb after him, after which it gradually improved, but was constantly
affected by spasmodic drawing of the muscles up and down from the toes
to the calf, at times rising into the thorax of the same side, and
moving back and forth; he also felt very sick, with excessive
development of gas in the stomach and intestines, with excessive
eructations in an almost uninterrupted stream from the mouth, together
with emission of flatus. The next day spasmodic drawings in the whole
right side continued; he was unable to write, because he could not
recall the letters of even proper names; but he was able to dictate,
though he seemed to grasp all ideas by the wrong end. Between 10 and 11
P.M. there was an attack of spasms, with incipient retraction of the
toes, and drawing up and down in the muscles of the right side, with
uneasiness and tossing from side to side, and difficult and late falling
asleep, this, however, did not amount to a complete spasm. The next
evening, at the same hour, there was a return of a similar attack, this
time with accelerated pulse, and ending with a general perspiration of a
rancid odor, which afforded relief; since that time gradual improvement,
with freedom from the attacks, which, however, recurred at the same hour
for three evenings, but each time less severely. Subsequent to this
there remained very speedy fatigue of the right side when walking, a
contractive rigid feeling of the toes of the right foot, and deadness of
the whole right index finger, and also of the first phalanx of the
middle finger; these, however, also come and go. Exactly a year after
the first attack there appeared a general spasm in the evening, again
followed by paralysis, with most violent headache and vertigo, rapid,
bounding pulse, anxiety, spasmodic numbness and clumsiness of the left
hand and of the right thigh, posteriorly as far down as the calf,
twitching beneath the right eye, preventing falling asleep or lying upon
the side; there was no recurrence of the attack. Since that time the
previous vertigo and the cramplike paralytic feeling of the right side
gradually became weaker and weaker, [12].
► She seems awkward, everything drops
from her hands, for several days (forty-fourth day), [14]. ►
Trembling over the whole body, not perceptible externally, [12]. ►
General painful jerking of the muscles, [12].
► Violent twitching in isolated
muscular parts, which was strongest in the middle of the upper part of
the right thigh and of the left arm; in the ends of the fingers and toes
the twitching was finer and more transient; this muscular twitching was
frequently repeated in different parts, and was one of the most
troublesome symptoms; for example, it still came on on the seventeenth
day, and lasted for almost ten minutes in the chin, [62]. ► After
he passed the whole night, after the thirtieth day, in convulsions and
unconscious, and awoke with paralyzed limbs, he was unable to write even
his own name, because he could not recall the right letters, yet he was
able to dictate correctly; at the same time his movements no longer
obeyed his will, but exactly the reverse, [12].
[2820.] ►
An epileptiform spasm in the evening, after lying down, with loss of
consciousness for ten minutes, followed by pain in the stomach and
yawning (sixth week), [12]. ► A paroxysm, commencing with intolerable
pains in the head and teeth, spasmodic weeping, icy-cold feet and hands,
leaden heaviness of both arms and groaning, the breath became very
short, and often stopped entirely; suddenly she lay motionless and
without breathing, but with clenched fingers, with quiet and regular
pulse; after about ten minutes she took a deep breath, looked
wanderingly at the bystanders, and seemed gradually to become conscious
of what was said and done; afterwards she felt very weak, and a constant
sensation as of a draft of air blowing upon a small spot just below the
limbs, which to that point had been cold. After a quarter of an hour the
paroxysm was repeated, but was less severe and shorter, and ended with
some perspiration. There continued during the whole paroxysm a sensation
as if she would fall forward, which impelled the patient to grasp
tightly, though standing up, at the same time it seemed as if her mind
were absent in a star surrounded by the brightest light, which suddenly
disappeared and left her in darkness in her bed; these paroxysms
returned every other day, [12]. ► Paroxysms; after yawning for two hours
and scratching the head, a violent spasmodic screaming, while sitting
with open eyes intermingled with delirious prattling of unintelligible
words, raving, with sensitiveness to the approach or touch of those
about her, at first with tossing about, and afterwards lying motionless,
with closed eyes and dark redness of the face, followed at last by quiet
sleep, until she woke confused and with weak memory; during the paroxysm
an unusual quantity of urine passed, and the right hand was
spasmodically pressed against the genitals, [12]. ► (Chorea; a chorea that had lasted for years,
constantly recurring, but always apparently cured by homœopathic
remedies (Belladonna, Stramonium, Agarica, Sulphur, Calcarea), and this
time returned in an aggravated form, began to decrease very decidedly,
the third day after a dose of Thuja, and then gradually diminished day
by day, till after three weeks there was no further trace of it, while
at the same time the general health visibly improved. This cure has now
lasted for more than two years, and seems permanent and radical), [12]. ►
Catalepsy; he laid for about two hours rigid and stiff,
without consciousness or motion, followed by jerking back and forth, [12]. ►
Rachitis, with paralytic-like weakness of the lower
extremities, emaciation of them, and relaxation of the ligaments of the
joints, followed by swelling of the articulations and curvature of the
bones, becomes gradually cured, [12].
► (The left-sided paralysis gradually
diminishes, especially after the seventh month so that she is able to
walk without a cane), [12]. ► General debility, with the confusion of
the head (thirteenth day); debility (twenty-first day); felt uncommonly
debilitated, as by fatigue, without being able to state what ails her
(thirty-eighth day), [42]. ► Feeling debilitated
all over, as by fatigue, and gloomy, was compelled to take a
little wine, after which all the above symptoms disappeared (fifth day),
[25]. [2830.]
► Had to lie down on account of
increasing debility, and was not able to go to sleep for several hours
(fifteenth day); general debility, as from fatigue (sixteenth day), [26]. ►
General debility, with such weakness in the feet that he thought he
should fall (sixth day), [68]. ► On rising, felt debilitated all over,
especially in the upper arms and thighs (ninety-seventh day), [43]. ►
General debility and weakness in the feet (second day), [70]. ►
General debility, increasing in the evening, and obliging him to go to
bed at 7 o’clock, [57]. ► Debility, with feeling as if beaten in
the limbs, in the afternoon (twelfth day); general debility, at night
(twenty-fifth day); after two hours sudden debility, with painful
lassitude, with pain in the calves; then an internal chill in the whole
body, with dry, hot skin, which compelled him to lie down; he could not,
however, keep warm in bed, and the debility increased to such a degree
that he could with difficulty move his limbs; at about 10 P.M. this
chill first began to disappear, merging in a dry and burning heat, and
towards morning a sweat broke out over the whole body; he had no
appetite, much thirst, passed no urine during the whole day, and had,
during the access of heat, a full, quick pulse and intolerable headache
(thirty-fifth day); on the morning of the following day he passed a
small quantity of dark-red urine; the sweat continued until noon, and
the prover could not leave his bed on account of his extreme weakness; a
chill came on again in the evening, followed by a sleepless night
(thirty-sixth day); the debility continued, he had no appetite, his
tongue was furred, and he urinated copiously (thirty-seventh day), [46]. ►
Great lassitude and weakness in both arms, with frequent tearing in them
(first day), [86]. ► General feeling of malaise, with internal
chills (fifth day), [78]. ► General malaise, with a sensation as if a
chill were about to come on, in the afternoon (twenty-first day);
general malaise, two hours after dinner (twenty-second day); a special
feeling of malaise, with general discomfort (fifty-seventh day); while
seated at his writing table he felt the influence of the drug spreading
through his system; but he was obliged to go out; the development of the
effects of Thuja are always hindered by bodily movement (fifty-eighth
day); at 8.30 P.M., he was seized in the street with general malaise and
such universal debility, with weakness in the stomach, that he took a
small glass of cordial; after awhile he felt better, but about 10
o’clock he felt an indisposition by no means easy to describe
(sixty-second day), [73]. ► Great general weariness (twenty-fifth
day), [77]. [2840.] ►
General weariness during the day, as if he had slept none all night
(seventh day), [26]. ► General weariness and uneasiness, with
dull confusion of the head, in the evening (tenth day), [73]. ► A
general feeling of weariness, with a chill over the whole body, in so
remarkable a degree that I was obliged to go to bed, although it was
only 6 P.M. (thirty-fifth day), [48].
► General weariness, with
slight headache in the forehead, after dinner (twentieth day), [72]. ►
Weariness and uneasiness in the whole body; the uneasiness less after
dinner (seventieth day); general weariness and universal feeling of
discomfort (seventy-third day), [72].
► Weariness, with apparent loss of
sensation in the limbs (ninth day), [37].
► In the evening a general feeling of
weariness which drove me to bed at 8 o’clock (twelfth day), [49]. ►
Weariness and general weakness, with heaviness in the feet and general
feeling of discomfort; she felt as if threatened with a severe attack of
illness (twentieth day), [75]. ► Great weariness and prostration of the
body, with aversion to motion, in the afternoon (after eleven hours), [10]. ►
Great weariness, in the morning, on rising, [1]. [2850.] ► General weariness and faintness
(twentieth day), [73]. ► Felt tired after a walk in the morning,
and frequently yawned when reading aloud (third day), [90]. ► More
tired than usual at the dispensary (eighth day), [90]. ► Weakness
(thirty-first and sixty-sixth days), [42].
► She feels weak and weary, so that
she falls asleep several times during the day (first day), [12]. ►
Weakness increasing daily, so that her breath seemed to go, and swelling
of the feet, [12]. ► Weakness of the body, with perfect mental
activity, [1]. ► Standing erect and walking were
difficult, and constantly gave out, [12].
► On awaking, very weak, and every
part of his body felt as though it had been bruised; the weariness
nearly disappeared in the course of the day (eighth day), [57]. ► Felt
very weak and unwell, in the evening (twelfth day), [72]. [2860.]
► Weak (fourth day); discomfort,
weakness, sleepiness, and yawning (sixty-seventh day), [14]. ► Weak
and debilitated all day (twenty-eighth day), [75]. ►
General weakness (thirteenth and nineteenth days); weakness, even to
falling, with the fever (nineteenth day); weak before dinner (twentieth
day); very weak and frequently obliged to sit down to rest
(twenty-second and twenty-third days); so weak and powerless that she
cannot leave her bed (twenty-fifth day); great weakness and prostration
(thirtieth day), [75]. ► Weakness (twenty-second day); with
sleepiness, at 11 A.M. and after eating, so that he was obliged to lie
down (fifty-fifth day); weak and sleepy towards 5 P.M., so that he was
obliged to go to bed, but could not rest, and tossed about constantly,
could not find a comfortable spot, and became hot; in spite of the
restlessness he felt too weak and indolent to rise; this lasted an hour
and a half (sixtieth day), [13]. ► Great weakness and heaviness after
eating, a little motion is very difficult; therewith he feels sick and
is obliged to lie down, [4]. ► Attacks of excessive weakness, with
trembling of the lower extremities and loss of breath, in the evening, [12]. ►
She feels weakest in the morning, [12].
► (Exhaustion after a stool), (after
five days), [1]. ► General exhaustion, as if paralyzed
(immediately), [12]. ► Sudden deep faintness in the afternoon,
after an unrefreshing sleep for half an hour, while consciousness
continued clear, [12]. [2870.] ►
A kind of sudden faintness, at 11 A.M., without loss of consciousness,
with icy coldness of the whole body, mostly in the back, with painful,
rapid beating of the pulse, heat, intermingled with a sensation as if
dashed with cold water, especially from the small of the back downward
and around the abdomen, which is sore, [12].
► Uneasiness for two hours, in the
evening, in bed, before he could fall asleep, [1]. ►
Uneasiness and sensitiveness to cold air, in the forenoon (twenty-fourth
day), [75]. ►
General uneasiness for a couple of hours, after dinner (sixteenth day);
general uneasiness, restlessness, after dinner (twenty-third day), [72]. ►
Indefinite feeling of uneasiness (sixty-eighth day), [73]. ►
Uneasiness, as if something were lying upon the heart, [12]. ► (He
becomes restless and ill-humored, on walking violently), [1]. ► She has
rest nowhere, [12]. ► Restless and ill-humored (seventeenth
day), [26]. ►
Tossing about, with voluptuous dreams, at last with lightning like pain
shooting through the back, and ending with weakness, [12]. [2880.]
► Inclination for exertion, in the
evening (thirteenth day), [73]. ► Walking seems excessively easy, it seems
as though her body carried wings, she could run several miles in a
remarkably short time, and with an unusual lightness, immediately, [2]. ►
Illusory sensation, as if the whole body were very thin and delicate,
and he must avoid every touch, just as if the connection of the
different parts of the body were in great danger of being severed, and
such a separation was to be dreaded, [7].
► General feeling of discomfort
(twenty-first day), [76]. ► Painful sensitiveness to touch of the
whole body, [1]. ► Feeling of taking cold, [12]. ► In the
forearm, several times, a coursing and gurgling, as of single drops of
blood rolling one after another, [62].
► Bruised sensation in the whole
body, especially in the thorax, he could not turn over in the morning,
on waking; after lying wide awake for some time this sensation
disappeared, but gave place to a stopped catarrh and spasmodic cough,
with sensation of soreness and rawness in the chest (twenty-third day), [13]. ►
The whole body feels bruised, in the morning (third week), [14]. ►
Gradual extension, especially of the pain, cramps, and paralysis from
without inward, from the periphery towards the centre, [12]. [2890.]
► Jerking of the upper part of the
body, during the day, [1]. ► Pressure in various parts, associated
with a scraping prickling sensation, seeming to be even in the bones, [1]. ►
While writing, drawing pressing in the right thumb (for five or six
minutes); then in the index, later in the middle, and finally in the
little finger; in the afternoon the same sort of a pain appeared in the
left arm, shifted then to the upper part of the thigh of the same side,
soon after appeared in both mastoid processes of the temporal bones,
then in the frontal eminences, where the pain took more of a
digging-twitching character, and finally reappeared in the extremities;
this wandering about of the pains continued through the following day
(seventh and eighth days); for several hours, in the forenoon, the pain
remained in the neighborhood of the left wrist, and during the whole
afternoon in the upper part of the left thigh (ninth day); while lying
down the pressing in the sacrum was fixed in the same spot for a whole
hour; it was diminished, and disappeared on motion, but afterwards
appeared while lying in bed, in the lower part of the left thigh, in the
same spot where it had already appeared once before (tenth day), [56]. ►
Drawing pains, now here, now there (ninth day), [57]; (eighth day), [65]. ►
Transient drawings often flitted about, now here, now there, especially
in the upper part of the thigh (fifth day), [66]. ►
Drawing, now here, now there, but worse on the left side of the body
(fifty-third day), [72]. ► Slight drawing here and there under the
skin, in the tendinous expansions (fifty-second day), [73]. ► Short
drawing tearing, now here, now there, but always on the left side of the
body (sixty-seventh day), [73]. ► Drawing tearing in the right arm,
especially along the course of the ulnar nerve, in the right thigh, in
the right zygoma, and in the right side of the chest, after rising;
after a little while these symptoms passed off, and appeared, but
weaker, in the left side of the body (sixty-fifth day), [73]. ► Tearing,
drawing, or sticking sensations, accompanied with repeated
attacks of vertigo, and a feeling of stiffness
in the feet and back, as far as the
nape of the neck (after every dose), [30]. [2900.]
► Through the day flying-drawing
pains in various parts, especially in the hands (thirteenth day), [48]. ►
Flying drawing, now here, now there, and troublesome itching in the
anus, especially in the evening, developed themselves every day,
gradually, however, wearing off (sixteenth day), [48]. ►
Transitory drawing, now here, now there (first day), [49]. ►
Tearing (in the small of the back, in the nape, over the temple, in the
knee-joint, in the tarsi, and some of the finger-joints), mostly on the
right side (first day), [87]. ► Drawing and fleeting
deep stitches in various parts of the body (eleventh day), [23]. [These short transient stitches,
caused by Thuja, were like electric shocks.] ►
The characteristic tearing-drawing pains (weakly marked), sometimes in
the frontal eminences and in the occipital protuberances, sometimes in
the middle of the left arm and thigh (only at rest), (after one hour and
a half), [57]. ► Tearing in the concha, the eyeball, the
scrobiculus cordis, the shoulderblade, the shoulder and hip-joints, the
thigh, from the ischia to the knee, in the leg, in the arm, and forearm,
[85]. ►
Frequently a transitory tremulousness over the whole body (seventeenth
day), [42]. ►
Having taken much exercise, the pains became less (twenty-sixth day);
next day more violent, decreased by degrees on the following days, and
ceased, but again returned, [77]. ► After three weeks, isolated symptoms were
still perceived; the pains were, for the most part, drawing, tearing, or
crawling, seldom pressing, and least of all sticking; they were mostly
confined to a small spot, seldom continued long, frequently changed
their location, and came on more distinctly when at rest than during
motion, [56]. [2910.] ►
Constant shooting stitches in all parts of the body (eighty-first and
eighty-second days), [43]. ► Sticking and tearing, now in this, and
now in that part, scarcely a spot was intact, [86]. ► Flying
stitches in different parts of the body (eighth day), [73]. ►
Sticking in different parts of the body (elbow, tibia, mammæ, chin,
scrobiculus, scapula, shoulder-joints), [86].
► Sticking in and on almost every
part of the body, on the vertex, through the brain, in the eyeball, in
the sternum, under the nipples, in the ribs, through the chest, from the
scapula through the heart, in the groins, in the maxillary bones,
shoulder, elbow, and knee-joint, in the ankle and wrist, in the os
ilium, in the thigh, in the calf, in the arm and forearm, in the
metacarpal and metatarsal bones, in the tendo Achillis, in the final
joint of thumb and great toe, at the root of the nails of the thumb and
index fingers, [85]. ► Sticking (in the ear, under-jaw, splenic
region, hip-joint, iliac region, in the middle of the thigh and leg, in
the tarsus, shoulder-joint, arm and forearm, carpus), mostly on the
right side (first day), [87]. ► Stickings and tearings sometimes in the
same part, sometimes in others (ear, ear-cartilage, ala of the nose,
near the sternum, in the epigastrium, between the shoulderblades), and
sometimes in all the limbs, in the evening, in bed (second to seventh
day), [87]. ►
Its influence upon the muscles was of very short duration, [50]. ►
The peculiarity of the muscular pains was that they generally affected
the middle instead of the tendinous portions of the muscle, [62]. ►
The symptoms came on almost exclusively while at rest, remained but a
little while, and were either rendered worse, or caused to break out
afresh, by the use of spirituous liquors, except the customary beer, [57]. [2920.]
► The symptoms recur in an
intermittent type, in one to three days, and duplicate, in the morning,
at 10 to 11, 4 to 5, and 10 to 11 P.M., at 12 to 2 at night, [12]. ►
Very much affected by every noise, [12].
► Wine aggravates the vertigo,
spasms, uneasiness in the blood and the fever; tobacco likewise, so that
he is obliged to leave off or reduce the amount of smoking, [12]. ►
Motion aggravates the pressure and heaviness in the stomach, paralysis
and vertigo, [12]. ► All symptoms are aggravated towards
evening and in the night, [12]. ► The pains are worse after three o’clock,
both in the afternoon and at night, also they prevent falling sleep, in
the evening, [1]. ► Morbid feelings aggravated during rest;
and by remaining quiet, symptoms are developed which disappear on
motion, in the open air (fourteenth day), [73].
► Most of the symptoms came on during
rest, many of them on waking, in the morning, [62]. ► Better
and worse on alternate days, [76].
► Motion relieves the headache, the
sensitiveness and rigidity of the side of the body upon which he has
just been lying, and momentarily the heart cramp, [12]. [2930.]
► Warmth relieves the whole
condition, cold aggravates, [12]. ► The symptoms disappeared in the open air
(forty-second day), [67];
(sixty-eighth day), [72];
(fifty-eighth day), [73].® 2000
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