THUJA OCCIDENTALIS



BACK.

Aching pain in the back, here and there, when sitting. Sore feeling in the outer parts of the back. Drawing pain in the back, when sitting. Tensive pain in the small of the back. Drawing in the small of the back. Aching pain in the small of the back, when stools. violent stitch-like pains in the back when walking. Stitches with pressure in the back. Burning stinging pains in the back, between the scapulae, when sitting. Sensation as of the beating of a large artery in the dorsal spine. Sensation of stiffness in the spine, as after standing from a long time bent. Beating and throbbing in the shoulder- joint. Feeling of stiffness in the nape of the neck and in the left side of the neck. Pain in the swollen glands of the neck. The veins of the neck are bloated and blue.

ARMS.

Profuse sweat in the axilla. Paralytic feeling in the arms. Bruising pain in the upper arms, as if beaten black and blue. involuntary jerking of the arm in the daytime. Violent drawing, apparently in the bones of the arms. Digging-up drawing pain in the whole arm, in the periosteum, as far as the fingers, pressure as from within outwears Lacerating beating ulcerative pain from the shoulder to the finger. Painful difficulty of moving either

arm, as if the joints had no synovial fluid. Throbbing in the elbow joint, like pulsations. heaviness in the fore-arms. Pain in the elbow and wrist-joints, as if dashed to pieces and crumbling. Lacerating in the wrist-joint, Feeling of dryness in the outer parts of the hands.

LEGS.

Cracking in the elbow, knee and tarsal-joints, when stretching the limbs., the thighs and legs go to sleep when sitting. Weariness of the internal muscles of both thighs, in paroxysms. Abrupt in the outer side of the knee. Painful pressure on the inner side of the knee. Painful pressure on the inner side of the knees. Tension through the leg, as from weariness. Intermittent pinching in the calves. the dorsum of the foot and the toes are swollen, inflamed, and red. Drawing in all the toes, extending into the leg. All the toes are inflamed, shining-red, and swollen.

Charles Julius Hempel
Charles Julius Hempel (5 September 1811 Solingen, Prussia - 25 September 1879 Grand Rapids, Michigan) was a German-born translator and homeopathic physician who worked in the United States. While attending medical lectures at the University of New York, where he graduated in 1845, he became associated with several eminent homeopathic practitioners, and soon after his graduation he began to translate some of the more important works relating to homeopathy. He was appointed professor of materia medica and therapeutics in the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia in 1857.