Thuja occidentalis

as Cyrus Maxwell Boger recorded it in A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1931

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Keynotes

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.

Worse

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

Better

Warm: Wind. Air. Wrapping head. Free secretions. Sneezing. Motion. Crossing legs. Touch.

Region

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

Relationships

Complementary: Nat-m. Nit-ac. Sabi. Sil. Related: Merc. Nit-ac. Sabi.

What the other books say about Thuja occidentalis

The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.

Thuja occidentalis in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
Thuja occidentalis in Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
Thuja occidentalis in Farrington — Lectures that teach remedies in families, by comparing them with each other.
Thuja occidentalis in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.

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Cite this page. Cyrus Maxwell Boger. A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica. 1931. Thuja occidentalis — Keynotes. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boger/thuja-occidentalis. Author died 1935: public domain in India. The catalogue records 1931; a 1931 edition is public domain in the US from 1 Jan 2027 at the latest — the edition this transcription follows is not stated in the file. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.