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Thuja Occidentalis

30C / 200C / 1MThuja
Tree of Life · White Cedar · "The Vaccination Wart Sycotic Remedy"
thuj.PolychrestPlantCommonSycotic
🎯 It acts primarily on the skin and genito-urinary organs, specifically addressing conditions characterized by wart-like growths and the after-effects of vaccination.
📖 Boericke writes:
Acts on skin, blood, tract, kidneys, and brain. Its relation to the production of pathological vegetations condylomate, warty excrescences, spongy is very important. Moist mucous tubercles. Bleeding fungus growths. . Excess of venosity.
The main action of Thuja is on the skin and genito-urinary organs, producing conditions that correspond with Hahnemann's dyscrasia, whose chief manifestation is the formation of wart-like excrescences upon mucous and cutaneous surfaces-fig-warts and . Has a specific antibacterial action, as in and vaccination. Suppressed , . Ill-effects of vaccination. pains, i.e, tearing in muscles and joints, worse at rest, better in dry weather, worse damp humid atmosphere; . constitutions, whose blood is morbidly hydroscopic, so that damp air and water are inimical. Complaints from moonlight. Rapid exhaustion and . Left-sided and chilly medicine. , aborts the pustule and prevents the suppurating fever. , viz, inveterable skin troubles, , etc.
👤 Constitution
•Typically left-sided, chilly, and sensitive to damp, humid weather. The person often suffers from rapid exhaustion, , and a tendency toward skin eruptions and abnormal growths.
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Ill-effects of vaccination.
introduction
constitutions, whose blood is morbidly hydroscopic, so that damp air and water are inimical.
introduction
Rapid exhaustion and .
introduction
White blisters on side close to root, painfully sore.
mouth
Brown spots.
abdomen
and distension; protruding here and there.
abdomen
Movements as of something living (Crocus), without pain.
abdomen
Gonorrhoeal rheumatism.
male
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male
Eruptions only on covered parts; worse after scratching.
skin
Brown spots on hands and arms.
skin
Sweat only on uncovered parts, or all over except head, when sleeping; profuse, sour, smelling like honey.
fever
🩺 Systems & Indications
🧠Mind
Useful for mental states involving fixed , emotional instability, and a sense of internal detachment.
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.
🔑 Modalities
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💊 Dosage & Potency

Historical record, not a prescription. Boericke published this in 1927. It is not medical advice — consult a qualified practitioner before acting on it.

Summarised from the passage below — Boericke’s own wording is the record.

tincture to thirtieth potency
Other
📝Locally, for warts and excrescences, tincture, or cerate.
Primary Dosage
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🤝 Complementary
Silicea Terra →Sabina →Arsenicum Album →Natrium Sulphuricum →
🚫 Antidotes
Mercurius Solubilis →Sabina →Camphora →
🔄 Compare With
Natrium Sulphuricum →Apis Mellifica →Calcarea Carbonica →Silicea Terra →Medorrhinum →Antimonium Tartaricum →Sabina →Malandrinum →Pulsatilla Pratensis →Cinnabaris →Cantharis Vesicatoria →Nitricum Acidum →Mercurius Solubilis →Cupressus LawsonianaCupressus AustralisSphingurus

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

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Thuja Occidentalis is listed in 464 rubrics across 23 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 133 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Male Sexual System55Eyes42Skin42Abdomen38Female Sexual System37Urinary System28Mind23Generalities22Modalities20Locomotor System18Fever18Respiratory System17Face17Head16Nose16Stomach14Nervous System13Tongue10Teeth6Ears4Gums3Throat3Mouth2

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