“A nurse, thirty-nine. Severe attacks of asthma for two years: they last three to four days, when she can hardly breathe. Vaccinated five times, the last did not take. She got Thuja, in high potency. Result: no asthma at all for three and a half years: then a return, and again Thuja. That was nine months ago, and not heard of since.
“Girl of nineteen. Discharge between, or instead of periods. Vague symptoms, but quite unlike herself in behaviour. Vaccinated once eighteen months ago and had very high temperature and ill for fourteen days, the arm only being red for one day. It was said to have `taken internally. She got Thuja. A month later, the doctor who sent her up wrote:`Miss H. is cured’: and her mother wrote: `She is quite well and jolly. She had been so unlike herself in her behaviour to me that I had wondered if it were the vaccination.
“Woman, fifty-nine, boils on and off for six years. Worse about vulva and anus. Began with a carbuncle. Inoculations for typhoid. Vaccinated four or five times, `doesn’t take as a rule’. Was given Thuja. Under observation for nine months, and still `No further trouble. Hope they are things of the past.’
“Woman with grown-up children. Eruption between toes, then wrists, then palms: now also on soles and sides of feet: very irritable, especially feet at night. A touch starts the itching. Vaccinated three times. Thuja. Her daughter, a doctor, wrote six days later, `No trouble at all since taking the first powder, so grateful. Eruption all fading away, no new ones coming.’ Thuja had ended it.
“Years of incapacitating headaches in the mother of a very noisy family of young children. Much vaccinated. Was given Thuja. This was some thirty years ago. Seen recently. `Never had a recurrence of those headaches.’
“Woman of forty-seven. Gassed during the war, asthma same night and again in 1921. Now (1931), asthma every two months, or more often. Remedies losing effect. Drops in sleep. Vaccinated lots of times, never seems to take. Thuja. No attack for four months, her longest spell without asthma. Now, with a cold, a bad attack and Thuja repeated. In this case it was ten years of asthma at least every two months, practically well for eighteen months (`only one real attack after four months, and two slight threatenings’).
“Miss X. Asthma for seven years, hay fever for fifteen years. Mother has asthma: father had asthma. T.B. history, mother’s side. Asthma started after a very bad vaccination seven years previously. Had been treated by injections. Thuja. The happy condition of `no asthma’ thereupon lasted a whole year, and the medicine did not need to be repeated. For the whole Summer, no asthma and no hay fever. Then, thirteen months later, for a slight return, Thuja was repeated, since when she has remained `extraordinarily fit’.
“Wee boy of three. Comes as mentally deficient. Very dirty: incontinence of stool and urine by night. Ate a dog’s faeces. At the children’s hospital the mother was told `You can’t replace brains: he will never be normal.’ Was vaccinated and did not take: done again at nine months. Mother had also, before his birth, a filthy discharge (? gonorrhoeal), another indication for Thuja. He was given Thuja, with almost miraculous results. Already, four weeks later, `Wonderfully better. Wonderfully different. Understands what you say, talks: getting fatter. Sleeps better. Very observant, asks “What’s that?–What’s that?” Had a birthday party four days ago, and was as normal as any- body.’ Mother says, `The Great Ormond Street doctor said, “You cannot replace brains”–but you have!’ Another month; plays about the room and chatters. When his mother calls him to have his coat on says, `Just a minute, Mummie!’ But of course this was not a real case of mental deficiency, merely arrested development–no longer arrested, thanks to Hahnemann, Burnett and Thuja.
“But a word of warning. If any one desires to repeat these experiments, he must remember that he is using a homoeopathic remedy, whose preparation and posology are absolutely different from the remedies he is in the habit of using. If you desire to produce an effect on a patient, to make him sleep, sweat, vomit, or to dull pain, you must give the dose that will to that extent do violence to his organism. But the remedy of `like symptoms’ is merely a vital stimulus, to start in the patient curative reaction, and requires to be given only in the minimal infrequent dose that has been established by 100 years of experience as being the most suitable for the purpose. You are using cell- poisons: and here, according to the Arndt-Schultz law, large doses may be lethal, smaller doses inhibit, while smallest doses stimulate.”
And now a word of warning to homoeopaths in regard to Thuja. It is not a safe drug in careless or ignorant hands. The “Thuja- disease”, where the remedy is persisted in, may also become chronic, according to Kent. We will quote
He says, in regard to Thuja: “If you repeat again and again, you will have that which will remain a lifetime. 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 (in potency) by giving it night and morning, you will rivet upon him a lifelong miasm.”
Always, the greater the power the greater its capabilities for good and evil, and the more the knowledge needed for its employment. And I think we have proved that Thuja is, as Hahnemann says, “an uncommonly powerful medicinal substance… useful in some of the most serious diseases of mankind. for which hitherto there has been no remedy.”
BLACK LETTER SYMPTOMS
Nervous, sycotic or syphilitic headaches.
White, scaly dandruff; hair dry and falling out.
Ophthalmia neonatorum.
Condylomata at ANUS.
Anus fissured, painful to touch, often with warts, sometimes immense numbers of flat, moist, mucous tubercles or condylomata surround anus, especially in syphilitic subjects.
Prostatic affections from suppressed or badly treated gonorrhoea. Gonorrhoea; scalding when urinating, urethra swollen; urinal stream forked; discharge yellow, green, watery; with warts, red erosions on glans; subacute and chronic cases, especially when injections have been used and prostate is involved.
Condylomata, mucous tubercles, sycotic cauliflower excrescences- -; fig-wards, smelling like old cheese or herring brine.
Warts, condylomata and other excrescences about vulva.
Condylomata moist, suppurating, stinging and bleeding.
SLEEPLESSNESS; sees apparitions on closing eyes; parts lain on painful; from heat and restlessness; from mental depression; after re-vaccination.
Wart-like excrescences on back of hand, on chin and on other places.
Warts and condylomata, large, seedy and pedunculated; some-times oozing moisture and bleeding readily.
QUEER SYMPTOMS
Body feels very thin and delicate: frail, easily broken: as if made of glass.
As if a living animal were in abdomen.
“Nail” sensations, driven into, or out from parts of brain.
As if abdominal muscles were pushed out by arm of a child.
As if boiling lead were passing through rectum.
As if anus would fly to pieces during stool.
As if moisture, or a drop were running through urethra.
As if legs were made of wood: or elongated.
Stinging and stitching pains, in various parts of body.
Coldness through length of spine: in arms.
Burning; scalp, eyes, lids, small of back to between scapulae, etc.
“A surplus of producing life; nearly unlimited proliferation of pathological vegetations, condylomata, warty sycotic excrescences, spongy tumours. All morbid manifestations are excessive, but appear quietly, so that beginning of diseased state is scarcely known.”
Rheumatism : flesh feels beaten off bones.
Bad effects from vaccination.
Luxuriant growth of hair on parts otherwise not covered by hair.
Skin looks dirty : cannot be washed clean. (Psorinum)
Warts, condylomata, large, seedy, pedunculated, sometimes ooze moisture and bleed readily.
Eruptions only on covered parts, burn violently after scratching.
Sweat only on uncovered parts, while covered parts were dry and hot.
