Thuja

K. n. is known in old-school practice principally as a "refrigerant diuretic,"

and as the active agent in the well-known "nitre papers," which are burnt for producing fumes to

allay attacks of asthma. It has also been used in rheumatism, and for incontinence of urine in

children. It has been extensively proved by homceopaths, and symptoms have been added from

• ▸cases of poisoning, so that its characteristics are well defined.
• ▸It is almost equal to K.
• ▸ca.
• ▸in

• ▸producing stitching pains; and it is like it in having a cough at 3 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸The pains produced by K.
• ▸n.

are very severe—stitching, cutting, lancinating, tearing, and pressing. And there is, as with many

other Kalis, much external sensitiveness—of scalp; of abdomen; of testes. That its anti-asthmatic

properties are homceopathic is abundantly shown in the respiratory symptoms it produces. Its

"diuretic" properties are utilised homceopathically in diabetes insipidus, and its use in enuresis

• ▸must come in the same category.
• ▸K.
• ▸n.
• ▸acts with great intensity on the abdominal and pelvic

organs, producing most painful colics, diarrhoea, and dysentery; in the male sexual sphere,

excitement and pain in testes and cords; in the female, menorrhagia with flow of ink-like

• ▸blackness.
• ▸This is very characteristic.
• ▸Another characteristic of K.
• ▸n.
• ▸is < from eating veal, or

• ▸effects of eating it—headache, diarrhoea, &c.
• ▸The mental state of K.
• ▸n.
• ▸is chiefly one of

peevishness, fretfulness, and ennui. There are many curious symptoms in the nose: "The pain-

like contraction in the eyes, forehead, and face concentrates in the tip of the nose"; "Swollen

feeling in right nostril, which is painful on pressure" sore pain in upper part of right nostril with

external sensitiveness these two last symptoms led to the cure of a large nasal polypus in a girl.

In a poisoning case there was in the period of recovery intense vertigo with tinnitus, which

• ▸should indicate K.
• ▸n.
• ▸in some cases of Meniere's disease.
• ▸Easy intoxication by wine or beer was

noted by several provers. A peculiar symptom is a sour taste in the throat. Another peculiar

symptom is in connection with the asthmatic state. The breathlessness is so great that the patient

though thirsty can only drink a sip at a time between the breaths. Allen thus defines the asthma

of K. n.: Asthma with excessive dyspnoea, faintness and nausea, with dull stitches or with

burning pain in chest, rather free expectoration. A solution of saltpetre as an application was an

old remedy for inveterate mange in cats. Nitre with Sulphur and Charcoal forms gunpowder. A

teaspoonful of this in hot water was a favourite remedy for gonorrhoea among soldiers in the days

when black powder was used. In the lower triturations gunpowder has cured ascarides in adults.

In some experiments made by myself with gunpowder 2x, severe herpes facialis involving right

eyebrow and right side of nose was developed. The most characteristic < is from veal; < from

wine or beer, < from a slight draught of air (headache). < After washing in cold water (eye). < 3

• ▸a.
• ▸m.
• ▸(cough).
• ▸< Lying with head low (dyspnoea), < in morning; afternoon; evening; after

• ▸midnight.
• ▸Walking < many symptoms.
• ▸< Breathing; < by coffee.
• ▸> Lying down; lying right side;

uncovering head (pain in parietal region). Suited to: asthmatic constitutions and chest

complaints.

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.

Excitement after a glass of wine as if he had taken too much.—Anxiety and

agitation.—Despondency, out of humour, uneasy.—Ennui; lachrymose mood, sad

• ▸expression.
• ▸—Fretful; peevish.
• ▸—Disinclined to think or work.
• ▸—Half stupor.
• ▸—Discouragement and

fear of death.

Affected parts feel numb, as if made of wood.—Tearing, shooting, and

drawing pains.—Most symptoms occur in evening, after midnight, and in afternoon.—The

symptoms which have manifested themselves during the day disappear on lying down in

evening.—Rapid swelling of whole body.—Great dejection in morning, with sensation of heat in

face, and burning in forehead.—Inflammation of internal organs.—Lassitude, which is greater

when seated than during movement.

• ▸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.

Confusion almost like intoxication.—Vertigo; on sleeping; tends to fall forwards; to r.

and backwards after drinking beer.—Fainting fits with vertigo in morning on standing, > on

sitting down; afterwards obscuration of sight with great weakness and drowsiness; pain in small

of back And constriction in abdomen; staggering gait with vertigo.—Vertigo and

tinnitus.—Headache in vertex on rising.—Headache, after eating veal——Headache, with

contraction of eyelids, from one evening to another, insupportable on stooping head.—Headache,

alternately with cramp-like tearing in joints of fingers.—Stunning (stupefying) heaviness of the

head, in morning, as after intoxication —Pressive pains in head, < by coffee, and > by motion of

• ▸a carriage.
• ▸—Headache with heat; < towards evening.
• ▸—Pains in r.
• ▸frontal sinus with stopped

catarrh.—Pressive headache: in forehead towards root of nose; on either side, in vertex as if a

stone were lying on it—Headache on vertex as if the hair were being pulled. —Violent pain r. side

of head from a slight draught of air—Coldness in occiput with pains in head——Compression in

occiput, producing rigidity in surrounding parts.—A feeling of contraction in head, which seems

to extend to nose.—Cramp-like drawing in occiput and nape, which = head to be thrown

• ▸back.
• ▸—Stinging pain in head.
• ▸—Lancinating headache.
• ▸—Pains in occiput are > by unbinding

• ▸hair.
• ▸—Painful sensitiveness of scalp.
• ▸—Scurfy spots on head.
• ▸—Profuse falling out of hair.

• ▸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.

Burning in eyes, with lachrymation and photophobia, < in morning, after washing with

• ▸cold water.
• ▸—Transient blindness.
• ▸—Cloudiness of sight.
• ▸—Coloured circles before eyes.
• ▸—In

evening, candles appear surrounded by a rainbow-like halo——Everything appears black before

eyes (after smelling Camphor).

Chronic otitis; discharge purulent. Creaking when swallowing. Polypi.

Shooting in ears, in evening, < by lying down on ear.—Tension, shootings and tearing

• ▸behind ears; behind r.
• ▸ear.
• ▸—Inflammation and swelling of lobe of r.
• ▸ear, with burning, and

jerkings pain.—Tingling in ears.—Tinkling and ringing in ears —Chronic deafness, from paralysis

of auditory nerve.—Vertigo and tinnitus.

• ▸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.

Burning, in nose, with digging, and clawing pain, < by touch.—The nasal bones are

• ▸painful, esp.
• ▸to the touch.
• ▸—Inflammation of extremity of nose, with shooting pain.
• ▸—Swelling of

interior of nose —Swollen feeling in r. nostril—Ulcers in the nostrils covered by a

scurf.—Epistaxis, with acrid blood (sharp, like vinegar).—Violent coryza, with obstruction of

nose, and loss of smell.

Pale and sickly complexion.—Face sunken, cold nose.—Muscles of face convulsed,

jerking.—Heat on face without rapid pulse—Redness and tension in cheeks, with < of the

headache.—Tearing in bones of face.—The pain-like contraction in eyes, forehead and face

concentrates in tip of nose.

• ▸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.

Fetid breath.—Burning blister at tip of tongue.—Crawling on tongue —Tongue loaded

with a white coating.—Taste: disagreeable; nauseous; disgusting; sourish, in throat in morning on

rising.

Toothache, with lancinating drawing, or tearing pains in teeth and head.—Shooting in

carious teeth, when touched.—Pulsative toothache, at night, < by cold things.—Swelling of gums,

of an inflammatory or scorbutic character; they bleed readily.

Sore throat, with shooting pain and inflammation of velum palati, and uvula (during

deglutition).—Impeded deglutition from tension and cutting in the larynx.—Loss of

speech.—Nocturnal pain in throat, as if it were contracting with obstructed respiration.

• ▸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.

Want of appetite, with burning and continued thirst.—Appetite, principally in

• ▸evening.
• ▸—Ravenous hunger returned between 10 and 11 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸, and alternated with cutting pain in

region of r. umbilicus Ravenous hunger without real appetite —Cannot drink for want of breath,

drinks in sips.—Painful sensation in upper orifice of stomach.

Nausea, as if about to vomit, esp. at night—Heaving, ineffectual retching after

each dose of 30th, mouth gets sore, feels altogether poorly (Cooper).—Retching, and vomiting of

mucus, mixed with blood.—Pains in stomach, with a sensation as if something were turning

about in it.—Gnawing, spasmodic weakness, and pressure on epigastrium.—Faint-like weakness

at stomach pit.—Violent cramps in stomach, with contractive pain (esp. after eating

veal).—Shootings in stomach and epigastrium.—Sensation of coldness, or of burning in

• ▸stomach.
• ▸—(Inflammation of stomach.
• ▸).
• ▸—Severe gastric pain recurs after every meal for years

after a single large dose (Fraser).

• ▸Distended; indurations in abdomen.
• ▸Chronic diarrhoea, 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.

Exceedingly violent pain in abdomen after eating veal, esp. at r. side—Excessive

distension of abdomen.—Griping about umbilicus; and beneath short ribs |. side; > by emission of

(fetid) flatus.—Griping and cutting in abdomen before normal stool.—Stitching and sticking

pains; abdomen swollen and very tender to touch; coldness of lower extremities; stiff feeling in

affected parts as if made of wood (peritonitis) —Cutting pains, which disappear towards

• ▸evening.
• ▸—Shooting pains in abdomen.
• ▸—Incarceration of flatus, esp.
• ▸in afternoon and

evening.—Very loud rumbling in abdomen.

Feces hard, difficult, and retarded, evacuated with much effort (by violent

• ▸pressing).
• ▸—Urgent want to evacuate, with tenesmus.
• ▸—Soft feces, with cutting pains.
• ▸—Diarrhcea

after eating veal.—Stools: watery; thin feecal; bloody; soft and diarrhcea-like; sluggish; hard like

sheep's dung.—Before stool: violent colic; urging.—During stool: cutting colic in whole intestinal

canal; tenesmus.—After stool: cutting colic; tenesmus; burning and stinging in anus.—Diarrhea,

sometimes without pain, or colliquative-—Frequent pressing in rectum.—Dysentery with much

cutting pain, great thirst and icy coldness of feet.

Frequent want to urinate, and profuse emission of a clear urine, with a

reddish cloud.—Burning in urethra while urinating and greatly diminished urine.

• ▸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 vesicae.

• ▸Vagina very sensitive (Berb; Kreos; Lyssin).
• ▸Warty excrescences on vulva and perineum.
• ▸Profuse leucorrhoea; 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.

Catamenia too early, and too profuse, with discharge of blood

• ▸black as ink.
• ▸—Menses retarded; suppressed.
• ▸—Abortion at second month.
• ▸—Before and during

catamenia, violent pains in abdomen and sacrum.—White serous leucorrhoea, which stiffens

linen, and is discharged during the sacral pains.—Frequent sticking beneath |. female breast.

• ▸Inflammation of prepuce and glans; pain in penis.
• ▸Balanitis.
• ▸Gonorrhoeal rheumatism. Gonorrhoea.
• ▸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).

Erections, increased sexual desire and pleasure.—Prickling sticking in

• ▸glans.
• ▸—Smarting in orifice of prepuce.
• ▸—Frequent itching of glans.
• ▸—Swelling in 1.

epididymis.—A fter unsatisfied desire, violent drawing tension and pressure in both testes,

extending along cords into abdomen, lasting some hours, testicles very painful.—Sensitiveness of

both testes which are drawn up with a pressive sensation in them.

• ▸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.

Hoarseness, with roughness and scraping in throat.—Tension, and

incisive pains in larynx, with obstructed deglutition.—Irritation to cough caused by tickling in

• ▸larynx.
• ▸—Sudden violent irritation to cough in r.
• ▸side near pit of throat, as if in r.
• ▸bronchus, neither

painful nor, itching; it could be suppressed by a slow, deep breath and by an effort of

will.—Cough with expectoration and pressive pain beneath sternum.—Cutting under sternum

when coughing.—Pressing pain under sternum when coughing with a feeling of warmth in same

• ▸locality —Cough, which awakens patient about 3 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸, with violent headache.
• ▸—Cough in open

air, or when going up stairs, also whenever the breath is held in—Dry cough, esp. in

morning.—When coughing, incisive pains in chest, until the mucus is detached.—Cough, with

shootings in chest, and expectoration of pure blood.—Cough, with purulent expectoration, and

colliquative sweats.

Cannot drink for want of breath; must take it in little sips; children take cup in both

hands and drink greedily one sip after another.—Obstructed respiration, which does not permit

lying down with the head low.—Oppression on chest, when ascending.—Pain in chest with

pressive tension, accompanied by a sensation of roughness under sternum, which excites violent

coughing.—Contractive pain in chest, commencing from the back, with sensation of constriction

in lungs.—Lancinations in chest, esp. when taking a full inspiration, when lying down, and when

coughing, accompanied by excessive anguish and oppression.—(Inflammation of

• ▸lungs.
• ▸).
• ▸—Sticking in |.
• ▸side near sternum.
• ▸—Sticking in I.
• ▸side of chest, cutting and tearing in

lungs.

Violent palpitation of heart, esp. when lying in bed, at night, waking

him.—Stitches in heart —Full pulse.

Pain in nape of neck, extending into shoulders, as if hair were violently

pulled. —Shooting pains in sacral region.—Violent pains in loins, night and morning, on

waking.—Pains in back on stooping.—Full, tense feeling in back as if kidneys engorged (removed

• ▸at once by 1x dil.
• ▸—Cooper).
• ▸—Aching in lumbar region, during repose, < esp.
• ▸by

coughing.—Shootings in and between scapule, often accompanied by oppressed respiration, < at

night, when lying on back, > by lying on r. side.

Rheumatic tearing in shoulders, at night —Tearing and shooting in joints of

arms, elbow, hands and fingers, principally at night, with heaviness, a sensation as if the hand

were too large, and swelling of fingers Numbness and tingling in arms and hands.—Drawing

and tearing in arms, from shoulder to fingers.—Wrenching pain in joints of fingers —Paralysis of

the arms after each dose of K. n., crude, taken for headache several times repeated Weakness in

arms, hands, and fingers, which prevents the holding of anything firmly.—Cramp-like tearing in

joints of fingers, alternating with headache.—Cramps and rigidity in joints of fingers.

Rheumatic pains in the legs.—Tearing in legs.—Great lassitude and paralytic

weakness in legs, after short walk.—Jerking tearing in soles—Numbness and tingling in

feet.—Contraction of toes.

• ▸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, naevi, 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.

Lancinations in skin, pricking like needles, followed by burning, principally in

face.—Tubercles, size of a pea, also on face—Burning vesicles, filled with yellowish serum,

which break when scratched, and then cease to burn.—Sudden dropsical swelling.

Persistent insomnia.

Drowsiness during day.—Disturbed sleep at night; constant dreaming, with frequent

awakening.—Coma somnolentum.—Anxious and uneasy dreams about dangerous

situations.—Nightmare.

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.

Pulse full, hard, and rapid.—Pulse slow in morning, rapid in afternoon and

evening.—Extraordinary shiverings not > by hot drinks or coverings.—Shivering in evening, with

pain.—Coldness in afternoon, with thirst; or coldness, preceded by headache, with adipsia, and

followed by nocturnal heat, without thirst or sweat—Quotidian fever, with drawing pains in

• ▸limbs.
• ▸—Profuse and colliquative sweat.
• ▸—Sweat in morning, esp.
• ▸on chest.

• ▸Asthma.
• ▸Chest, pain in.
• ▸Colic.
• ▸Diabetes insipidus.
• ▸Dysentery.
• ▸Dysmenorrheea.

• ▸Enuresis.
• ▸Gastritis.
• ▸Headache.
• ▸Heart, affections of.
• ▸Herpes preputialis.
• ▸Meniére's disease.

• ▸Menorrhagia.
• ▸Nose, bleeding of.
• ▸Peritonitis.
• ▸Phthisis.
• ▸Pleurisy.
• ▸Pneumonia.
• ▸Polypus.

Rheumatism. Vertigo.

• ▸Antidoted by: Smelling Nit.
• ▸sp.
• ▸dul.
• ▸Ipec.
• ▸relieved the cough.
• ▸Smelling Camph.

intensified the sufferings. Follows well: Aco. in dysentery, and is followed well by Nux in the

• ▸same.
• ▸Also follow well: Bell.
• ▸, Calc.
• ▸, Puls.
• ▸, Rhus, Sep.
• ▸K.
• ▸n.
• ▸antidotes the renal symptoms of

• ▸Caust.
• ▸Compare: Arn.
• ▸, Dros.
• ▸, Nat.
• ▸m.
• ▸, Nit ac.

Compare: (Hydrogenoid constitution: Calcar; Silica; Nat sulph; Aranea; Apis; Pulsat). Cupressus australis (sharp, prickling pain; general feeling of warmth; rheumatism and gonorrhoea). 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 gonorrhoea); Merc; Cinnab; Terebinth; Juniperus; Sabin; Sil; Canth; Cannab; Nit ac; Puls; Ant tart; Arborinis 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.

The general appearance of the Thuja subject, if he has a characteristic picture, is that of a waxy, shiny face, it' looki? as if it had been

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tearing, burning, bursting pains, as if the parts were being torn out,

makes 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, jealousy, quarrelsomeness, ugliness. This irritability is likely to be 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 feels the motion of a child’s arm, thinks

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 condition, 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

as 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, 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 sufthuja OCClOENTALlS 909

fer from lasting conditions.

In the old school, they always suppress the discharge, and there arc

those in the new school who do little better.

The frequent repetition by which one is exposed, would not increase

the gonorrhoea itself, because the susceptibility is satisfied.

Tlie 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

pn 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 arc 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.

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, cars andkhest. 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 arc 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 non-sycotic variety, Cannabis sativa is sufficient, but

those cases that have proved to be 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

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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

and are high livers and with such you have a slow case on hand.

With the system so broken down from 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 l)egin

with and one that will bother the young physician.

You cannot substitute the right method for a wTong 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 homoeopath.

If he wants it checked suddenly, let him go somewhere else, but

warn him what will take place, and that he will have untold disease

and suffering.

Drawing in limbs with paralytic weakness.—Tearing in limbs, day and night, >, but

for a short time only, by friction Rheumatic pains and stitches in limbs and joints.

Nightly rheumatic pains < from warmth of bed; lightning-like from

• ▸small of back to feet; must get out of bed and sit up.
• ▸—Puffiness of ankle-joints (C.
• ▸).
• ▸—Ulcers on

extremities, fibrinous discharges; bunions.—Tenalgia crepitans, creaking of tendons on back of

hand.