Thuja is of value for chancroidal ulcers and condylomata on the genitals of both sexes (34).
The I. ovary is especially affected (147), either as an acute inflammation (148) worse during menstruation and Lilienthal says “all symptoms” under Thuja are :worse during menses,” or as a chronic inflammation following gonorrhoea.
Lippe speaks of the menstruation of this remedy being precede d by profuse perspiration.
Thuja is useful for uterine polypi (202), bleeding easily (202), and with severe pain, and for prolapsus of the uterus (203), worse when driving, and accompanied by great pain in the back. It is of value, as a palliative at least, for epithelioma of the vagina and and uterus (202), for cauliflower excrescences on the cervix (202), and for warts about the vulva, with extreme sensitiveness of the vagina, especially on coition (205).
Thuja is of value for polypi of the Vocal cords (it is the only one so spoken of in the Handbook), and it is to be thought of for cough coming on immediately after eating (41).
It has been used for lupus (128) and for varicose ulcers (205) but it is of especial value for fungoid excrescences on various parts of the body, for warts (208) and condylomata (34) that come in crops, are fissured and bleed easily (208). Hering speaks of Thuja in this connection as follows: “A surplus of producing life; nearly unlimited proliferation of pathological vegetations, condylomata, warty sycotic excrescences, spongy tumors exudates organize hastily; all morbid manifestations are excessive, but appear quietly, so beginning of diseased state is scarcely known.”
Hughes says that Hahnemann recommended that “in old cases the larger excrescences be touched once a day with the tincture,” provided of course that Thuja is the internal remedy.
Boenninghausen advised the use of Thuja in small-pox, giving it as soon as the vesicles filled and changed to pustules; he claimed that it caused rapid dessication and prevented scaring.
Thuja is a remedy that need not be repeated too frequently. Hahnemann tells us that “the duration of the action of even the smallest doses is nearly three weeks (Mat. Medorrhinum Pura).
I use Thuja 30th.
