Thuja occidentalis

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.

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.

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

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

Thuja Occidentalis

Tree of Life; White Cedar. Coniferce.

Adapted to hydrogenoid constitution of Grauvogl, 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 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., Then).

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; 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; chalazse, thick, hard knots, like small condylomata ; after Staphisagria partially > but does not cure.

Ears : chronic otitis ; discharge purulent, like m 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, vaccination, onions.

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.) ; zidien he sleeps, stops when he wakes (rev. of Samb.) ; profuse, sour smelling, fetid at night.

Perspiration, 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.).

Compare: Cann. s., Canth., Cop., Staph. .

Cinnab. is preferable for warts on the prepuce.

Follows well: after, Med., Mer., Nit. ac.

Aggravation. — At night; from heat of bed; at 3 A. M. and 3 p. M. ; from cold, damp air; narcotics.

Lecture XXX — Coniferae — Abies nigra, Sabina, Terebinthina, Pix liquida and Thuja occidentalis; Euphorbiaceae — Croton tiglium, etc.

Thuja in pseudocyesis.

Accompanying these symptoms of the nervous system indicating the drug in melancholia, and other forms of insanity, we find many disturbances in the circulation, such as ebullitions of blood, pulsations all over the body, and precordial anxiety. The action of the drug on the nervous system is further shown in various forms of neuralgia. Thus it is indicated in the form of headache known as clavus, in which the patient has a sensation as though a nail were being driven into the vertex, or into one of the frontal eminences. Thuja may also be used in neuralgia affecting either the head or the face or both. The pains are of an intense stabbing character, and are well-nigh unbearable. If the patient sits up these pains almost drive him to distraction; they may even produce unconsciousness. He therefore maintains the horizontal posture. The pains seem to begin about the malar bones and eyes, and go back toward the head. They may be due to a suppressed eruption. This neuralgia reminds us of Mezereum and Spigelia, but we distinguish it from that of the last-named remedy by the direction of the symptoms; in Spigelia the pains begin in the back of the head and come forward.

After detailing to you these unique nervous symptoms, I pass to the application of the drug to sycosis. Remember that these nervous phenomena may or may not have a sycotic basis. Thuja is a remedy which tends to alter the sycotic constitution, to change the soil in which this poison grows. There are two elements which make up disease; they are the elements of the disease itself, and those of the constitution in which it grows. The sycotic constitution to which I have referred modifies every subsequent disease, and that, too, whether there be any urethral discharge or not.

In gonorrhoea you may use Thuja when the discharge is thin and greenish, and there is scalding pain during urination. After urination there is a sensation as if a few drops of urine ran down the urethra. Warts or condylomata appear on the genitals, at the anus, about the perineum and upon mucous surfaces. I have treated one case in which the wart formed on the centre of the tongue. This was speedily cured by Thuja. These warts may have a seedy look, or they may be of a cauliflower shape. Cauliflower-like excrescences are especially apt to grow from the cervix uteri. In other cases, these warts are moist and ooze a glutinous, foul-smelling fluid. Sometimes we find ulcers about the genitals, and these have very much the appearance of chancroids; they have a dirty yellow base with hard edges. Very characteristic are such ulcers if they seem to have originated from warts. Sometimes we note fissures, or furrows about the anus, on the perineum, scrotum or glans penis. These are deep and are covered with pus. There is sweetish-smelling sweat about the genital organs. The inner sides of the thighs are red and excoriated. The testicles are often involved, one or the other of these organs being drawn up in consequence of contraction of the cremaster muscle. The testicle is swollen and aches as if bruised. There may be balanorrhoea, that is, a purulent inflammation of the inner surface of the prepuce and of the sulcus behind the corona glandis.

In the female organs we find the cauliflower excrescences which I have already mentioned; fungous growths of venereal origin about the genitals; and condylomata with thick green leucorrhoea, corresponding to the thin greenish-yellow gleet of the male.

Again, if a gonorrhoea be checked by injection, by cold or by any other influence, constitutional symptoms may arise which call for Thuja. Especially is this remedy indicated if the complication be articular rheumatism, or prostatitis; the hair dries and splits at the ends; the scalp becomes scaly and covered with dry scurf; iritis appears, accompanied by condylomata on the iris; the eyelids are inflamed and become warty. Ozsena may be an additional complication, with a discharge that is thick and green. The teeth decay at the root, the crowns being apparently normal. Other symptoms worthy of mention are pustules, which have considerable resemblance to those of Tartar emetic; chilliness during urination; nervousness and restlessness during both night and day; otorrhcea; foul breath; hoarseness. Thuja has the singular property of softening hard tissue, tissue naturally hard, as the nails. Herein lies the explanation of the ability of the drug to remove warts; it softens them and causes their absorption. The drug has a specific action in sclerotitis.

The cough of Thuja is worse during the day; seldom occurring at night. The sputum is like old cheese.

Thuja is a remedy in scrofula and marasmus. Such cases are not necessarily sycotic, but they have just such constitutions as favor the growth of this taint. The stools are watery, gurgling, forcibly expelled, and are daily worse after breakfast, and accompanied by much loud flatus; tinea ciliaris, with dry bran-like scales; irregular and imperfect eyelashes; children are pot-bellied; they scream on awaking, and are a long time becoming fully awake.

I propose now to devote the remaining moments of the hour to a consideration of the remedies similar to Thuja in the above-mentioned conditions. One of the nearest allies to Thuja is Pulsatilla, in that it has ozsena with thick greenish discharge. In gleet, also, the remedies have the same discharge, it being thicker under Pulsatilla. Then, too, gonorrhceal rheumatism, orchitis and prostatitis, are just as characteristic of Pulsatilla as of Thuja.

Kali bichromicum is useful in ozsena occurring in sycotic constitutions, the discharge being yellowish or more often greenish. The nose feels unnaturally dry. Dark greenish plugs are hawked from the post-nasal space.

Nitric acid resembles Thuja in the condylomata or warts. It is also of use in ulcers, when they are ragged in outline, and in enlarged tonsils, whether these affections be of syphilitic or of gonorrhceal origin. Nitric acid also has moist fissure of the anus (which is also present, as you know, under Thuja), balanorrhcea and thin greenish leucorrhcea. Nitric acid has, however, to distinguish it from Thuja, more aching pains in the bones, especially in those localities devoid of muscular tissue covering, as along the tibia, and over the sternum and cranium. Staphisagria suits long filiform condylomata. The system generally is depraved, as shown in the sallowness of the face, the dark rings about the eyes, the spongy gums, the yellowish-white skin, and the great debility. It is especially indicated when there has been previous mercurialization. There is generally induration of one or the other testicle.

I would like to mention here Jacaranda. This is a South American plant that was first proved by Muir. It is an excellent remedy for balanorrhoea, and for red chancroid or chancroid-like sores about the penis. It has been proved conclusively to be a good remedy. Corallium rubrum is an excellent remedy for chancre-like sores that are very red.

Mercurius resembles Thuja in the iritis, the balanorrhoea, the green urethral discharge and the rheumatism. The difference lies here: in Mercurius, sweating aggravates the symptoms, as does also the warmth of the bed. Thuja has a symptom which is not often met with, but which saved a life for Boenninghausen, namely, sweat upon uncovered parts of the body only.

Sabina is useful for condylomata which itch and burn, especially in women.

Euphrasia is called for when the condylomata are large and look like a cock's comb.

Cinnabaris is an excellent remedy when there is a combination of syphilis and sycosis. The figwarts are apt to be fan-shaped. There is a great deal of itching, especially about the joints. The complement of Thuja in these sycotic troubles is Natrum sulph. Sarsaparilla is indicated when there is a sycotic eruption consisting of little spots scarcely raised above the skin, often scaling a little, but looking like the roseola of syphilis, itching intolerably, and developing an aggravation in the spring; also when a moist eruption appears on the scalp, the pus from which causes inflammation of any part which it touches. Sycotic headache is found under Sarsaparilla. The pain begins in the back of the head, and comes forward and settles at the root of the nose, with swelling of the nose; moist eruption about the genitals, or between the scrotum and the thighs.

Petroleum also has this last-named symptom; and in addition another, namely, membranous shreds about the anus.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Thuja Occidentalis

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.

Skin: 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.

Asthma: 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.

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 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.

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 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.

Catarrhal conditions: 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, figwart 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 nonsycotic 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.