Condensed Materia Medica.
By Constantine Hering.
Presented by .
THUJA.
[Thuja]
Arbor vitć. Hahnemann. Coniferć.[1] * [2]
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* [45] * [46] * [48]► 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, otorrhśa, 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 alć,
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.► Aphthć ; 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 fśtus ; 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.
► Diarrhśa : 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.
► Gonorrhśa : scalding, when urinating ; urethra swollen,
urinal stream forked ; discharge yellow, green, watery ; often
with warts ; with red erosions on the glands.
► Checked gonorrhśa, 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 aphthć.
► Mucous leucorrhśa.
► 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 vulvć.
► 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 scapulć.
► 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 gonorrhśa, 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.
► Śdema 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.
► Nćvus.
► 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 ;
diarrhśa ; 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.
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