Arbor vitae
- Acts on skin, blood, gastro-intestinal tract, kidneys, and brain.
- Its relation to the production of pathological vegetations condylomata, warty excrescences, spongy tumors is very important.
- Moist mucous tubercles.
- Bleeding fungus growths.
- Naevus.
- 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 gonorrhoea and vaccination.
- Suppressed gonorrhoea, 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.
Mind
- 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.
Head
- 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.
Eyes
- 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.
Ears
- Chronic otitis; discharge purulent.
- Creaking when swallowing.
- Polypi.
Nose
- 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.
Mouth
- 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.
Stomach
- 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.
Abdomen
- 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.
Urinary
- 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.
Male
- 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).
Female
- 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.
Respiratory
- 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.
Extremities
- 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.
Skin
- 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.
Sleep
- Persistent insomnia.
Fever
- 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.
Modalities
- 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.
Relationship
- 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;
- Arborin is a non-alcoholic preparation of Thuja.
- Antidotes:
- Merc; Camph;
- Sabin (warts).
- Complementary: Sabina; Ars; Nat sulph; Silica.
Dose
- Locally, for warts and excrescences, tincture, or cerate.
- Internally, tincture to thirtieth potency.
