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Thuja Occidentalis

30C / 200C / 1MThuja
Tree of Life · White Cedar · "The Vaccination Wart Sycotic Remedy"
thuj.PolychrestPlantCommonSycotic
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🎯 It acts primarily on the skin and genito-urinary organs, specifically addressing sycotic conditions characterized by wart-like growths and the after-effects of vaccination.
📖 Boericke writes:
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. 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.
👤 Constitution
•Typically left-sided, chilly, and sensitive to damp, humid weather. The person often suffers from rapid exhaustion, emaciation, and a tendency toward skin eruptions and abnormal growths.
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Ill-effects of vaccination.
introduction
Hydrogenoid constitutions, whose blood is morbidly hydroscopic, so that damp air and water are inimical.
introduction
Rapid exhaustion and emaciation.
introduction
White blisters on side close to root, painfully sore.
mouth
Brown spots.
abdomen
Flatulence and distension; protruding here and there.
abdomen
Movements as of something living (Crocus), without pain.
abdomen
Gonorrhoeal rheumatism.
male
Gonorrhoea.
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 delusions, 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
↓Worse from
↑Better from
💊 Dosage & Potency
tincture to thirtieth potency
Other
🕒As directed
📝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 →Cupressus Australis →Sabina →Malandrinum →Pulsatilla Pratensis →Cinnabaris →Cupressus Lawsoniana →Cantharis Vesicatoria →Sphingurus →Nitricum Acidum →Mercurius Solubilis →
📚 Sources & References

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