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Thuja Occidentalis - General symptoms - Kent Lectures


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HPUS indication of Thuja Occidentalis: Warts
Thuja Occidentalis
Common symptoms: Warts, Dizziness, Fungus, Headache.


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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.

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

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

Warts 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 Nitric Acid 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 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 Tox Rhus, Graphites Graph, Causticum Kali hydr., and Mezereum Mezereum.

Thuja Occidentalis 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 Mercurius Dulcis 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.


when these warts have been suppressed, we get symptoms of Nitric Acid Nitric acid, Thuja, Merc Viv Mercurius and Staphysagria Staphysagria.


Thuja is pre-eminently a strong medicine when you have a trace of animal poisoning in the history, as Bothrops Lanceolatus 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 Tox 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 Tox Rhus when the case is not sycotic, when these symptoms come from suppressed gonorrhoea Medorrhinum 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 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 Pulsatilla the remedy.


Women 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 Zincum Metallicum Zinc., and Lachesis Lachesis, for in these, relief comes with the flow.


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.

Thuja Occidentalis irritability is likely to been shown towards individuals about the house, toward the husband and the mother.


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.



Pain localized in small spots. A nail driven in the head, side of head and forehead, like Ignatia Ignatia and Anacardium Occidentale 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.


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.





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.


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.


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 Kali bich and Petroselinum Petros.

In the urethral disease of sycotic character, Thuja leads all other remedies. In the non-sycotic variety, Cannabis sativa issufficient, 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 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.





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.