THUJA OCCIDENTALIS
Source: Vegetable kingdom
Synonyms: Tree of life, American arbor vitae, False white
cedar
Family: Coniferae
Prover: Dr Hahnemann in 1819
Habitat: It is found in North America, from Canada to
mountains of Virginia and Carolina
Parts Used: Mother tincture is prepared from the fresh
green leaves and twigs of the tree.
Ailments From: Vaccination; gonorrhoea – badly treated
or suppressed; sunstroke, sexual excesses, tea, coffee,
beer, sweets, tobacco, fat, meat, onions, sulphur, mercury.
Seat of Action : Mucous membranes, gastrointestinal
tract, mind, nerves, occiput, especially the brain
,genitourinary organs, glandular epithelium, skin, etc.
Doctrine of Signature: It is prepared from the Tree of life.
This plant has pedunculated wart-like growths at the
junction of the branch and the stem, or between two
branches, and this medicine is one of the best medicines
for pedunculated warts.
Active Principles : Main constituents are thujin, thujetic
acid, oil of thuja, thujone, pinipicrine, pince, fenchon and
tannin.
Characteristics Symptoms
1.Left-sidedness
2.Greasy: Greasy skin; face looks shiny, waxy or oily,
greasy or oily stool, oily sweat.
3.Sweating: Sweats only on covered parts; or all over
except the head, when he sleeps, stops when he
wakes.
4.Headache: As if a nail had been driven into the
parietal bone, or as if a convex button were pressed
on the part, worse from sexual excesses, over
heating, etc.
5.Diarrhoea: Early morning, expelled forcibly with much
flatus; gurgling, as if water was passing from a
bunghole, worse after breakfast, coffee, etc.
6.Vertigo: Vertigo on closing the eyes.
7.Skin: Skin looks dirty; brown spots here and there;
warts large and seedy.
8.Catarrh: Chronic nasal catarrh; discharge thick,
yellow, greenish, offensive.
9.Desire: Great desire for salt, cold food and drinks.
General Modalities
Aggravation: At night, from heat of bed, afternoon, 3 am
to 3pm, motion, from cold damp air, narcotics, deep
inspiration, talking.
Amelioration: Lying on affected side, lying on back,
wrapping up after labour.