(Arbor vitoe.)
(From vol. v, 2nd edit., 1826.)
(The green leaves of the Thuja occidentalis are first bruised to a fine pulp themselves, then stirred up with two thirds of their weight of alcohol, and the juice then expressed.)
No serious medicinal employment has been made in Europe before now of this plant, which somewhat resembles in external characters the Juniperus sabina; for what PARKINSON and HERRMANN say of it is evidently more theoretical speculation, after the fashion of the dear old Therapia generalis. According to BOERHAAVE its distilled water has been found useful in dropsical diseases. According to KALM it is popularly employed in North America as an external remedy in some undefined pains of the limbs.
The following elements of artificial diseases, the pure effects of this uncommonly powerful medicinal substance, with be regarded by the homoepathic practitioner as a great addition to his medicinal treasury, and he will not fail to make a useful application of them in some of the most serious diseases of mankind, for which hitherto there has been no remedy. For example, he will perceive from these symptoms that the juice of thuja must be specifically useful in that hideous disease arising from impure coitus, the fig-warts, if they be not complicated with other miasmata; and experience also shows that thuja is the only efficacious remedy for them. And for a similar reason it most certainly cures that bad kind of gonorrhoea resulting form impure coitus if it be not complicated with other miasmata.
I employed the decillion-fold dilution of the juice, in the dose of a very small portion of a drop, even in the worst cases.
As the fig-wart gonorrhoea is one of the few permanent miasmatic diseases, I was able to test in the most certain manner the degree of efficacy of the higher dilutions of thuja juice. Thus I found that even the higher dilutions. e.g. the decillion-fold or even the vigesillion-fold dilution (1/xx), made with sixty diluting phials, each of 100 drops), if each diluting phial were successed ten times and oftener (that is, with ten or more shakes of a powerful arm), was not weaker in power than the less diluted preparations, nor, on account of the enormously diminished arithmetical fraction, had it sunk to complete powerlessness, to nothing, but, on the contrary, it had rather become even more intensely charged (The discovery that crude medicinal substances (dry and fluid) unfold their medicinal power ever more and more by trituration or succession with non-medicinal things, and in greater extent the further, the longer, and the stronger this trituration or succussion is carried on, so that all their material substance seems gradually to be dissolved and resolved into pure medicinal spirit; – this discovery, unheard of till made by me, is of unspeakable value, and so undeniable, that the unheard of till made by me, is of unspeakable value, and so undeniable, that the sceptics, who from ignorance of the inexhaustible ersources of nature in the homoeopathic dilutions, see nothing but mechanical division and diminution until nothing remains (therefore, annihilation of their medicinal power), must see their error as soon as they appeal to experiment.) with the medicinal virtue of thuja.
Innumerable accurate trials have so completely confirmed this (also with regard to other high fluid medicinal dilutions prepared in a similar way) that I can certify to its truth form conviction.
In order to obtain real preparations of sufficiently developed, but at the same time suitably moderated. Power for even the more and most sensitive patients by the dilutions of medicinal substances for homoeopathic use, for some time back I have adopted the plan in the case of all fluid medicines of succussing each diluting phial with only two strokes of the arm.
The duration of the action of even the smallest doses is nearly three weeks.
Camphor appears to be the best antidote to mitigate the excessive action of this juice in larger doses.
[HAHNEMANN’s fellow-provers were FRANZ, GROSS, FR. HAHNEMANN, HARTMANN, HAYNEL, G. HEMPEL. LANGHAMMER TEUTHORN, WAGNER, WISLICENUS.]
No old-school authorities are cited.
The 1st edit, has 509 symptoms, this 2d edit. 633.]
THUJA
When he has stooped he staggers.
Whirling vertigo, even when sitting when walking she staggers.
Frequent vertigo, even when lying in bed.
Much vertigo when sitting, like a moving to and fro, very much aggravated by lying.
5. Vertigo, especially when he was seated and the eyes were closed; it went off when lying.
Sensation of giddiness as after frequent turning round in a circle (aft. ¾ h.). [Htn.]
His head is confused and incapable of thinking.
Cloudiness in the forehead (immediately). [Fz.]
Slow recollection and slow speaking; he has to seek for the words when talking (aft. 3 d.).
10. Inward weakness of the head; the brain feels numbed and dead.
In the morning stupefaction of the head (aft. 6 h.). [Ws.]
Dull pain in the whole head like stupefaction (aft. 1 h.). [Lr.]
A numb sensation and humming in the left half of the brain and in the left ear (aft. 3 h.). [Htn.]
Preoccupation of the mind; he could not get rid of the thoughts he had been engaged with.
15. He becomes cloudy in the head, so that he knows not where he is, when standing (aft. ¾ h.). [Fz.]
Want of attention to what took place around him. [Ws.]
Stupid in the head, with nausea. [Fr.H-n.]
Dazed in the head and as if intoxicated, especially in the morning. [Fr.H-n.]
His head feels empty, when sitting and walking (aft. 6.1/2 h.). [Lr.]
20. In the morning headache, sometimes as if the head were severed asunder in the zygoma and upper jaw, sometimes in the forehead as if it would fall out, with internal chilliness; all this was ameliorated by walking in the open air.
In the morning headache, as after sleeping too soundly or as after stooping; a pulsation or short pressive jerks in the forehead with redness of face.
A cramp-like sensation in the left side of the head, followed by feeling of warmth. [Fz.]
A boring pressure in the head.
Drawing pain in the head.
25. Painless drawing in the right parietal bone, with slight pressure, during which an almost agreeable warmth spreads over the body (aft. 4 h.). [Fz.]
Tearing in the right side of the sinciput and face, transversely, across the nose to the zygoma, and over the eyes; most severe in the morning and evening.
Violent contractive pressure externally on the left frontal protuberance, which seemed as it were to press down the upper eyelid (aft. 1.1/2 h.). [Htn.]
Shooting pain in the head.
Dull drawing pressure transversely across the forehead, as if a weight sank down in it (aft. 4.1/2 h.). [Lr.]
30. A deep pressure in the right temple (aft. 1.3/4 h.). [Htn.]
Jerking pressure in the left frontal protuberance (aft. 4 h.). [Htn.]
Jerking pressure in the right frontal protuberance (aft. 4.1/2 h.). [Htn.]
Aching in the left parietal bone, with a dull pain (aft. 2 h.). [Fz.]
Dull aching pains in the occiput, for six hours (aft. 1 h.). [Wr.]
35. A pressive pain transversely across the forehead (aft. ½ h.). [Lr.]
Furious pressing inwards in both temples, as though the brain would be pressed out. [Htn.]
Severe painful pressure in the head, sometimes in one part sometimes in another, only momentary (aft. 2 h.). [Htn.]
Aching drawing in the left temple. [Fz.]
Twitching tearing in the occiput, more on the right side (aft. 1 h.). [Htn.]
40. Drawing tearing pain from the crown to the middle of the brain. [Hnl.]
Heaviness in the head as if a weight pressed the brain inwards. (aft. 1.1/2 h.). [Htn.]
Feeling of weight in the head, especially in the occiput, aggravated by every movement (aft. ½ h.). [Wr.]
Heaviness of the head, with crossness and disinclination to speak (aft. 3 h.). [Wr.]
A headache compounded of aching, bruised and lacerating pain from the forehead to the occiput, on waking from sleep, which went off on continuing to sleep. [Fr.H-n.]
45. Sensation in the upper part of the skull as if it were beaten in. [Fz.]
Sensation in the right parietal bone as though a nail were driven in there, which goes off on tothat part (aft. ½ h.). [Fz.]
Jerk-like stitch through the whole head, which leaves behind an aching sensation (aft. 1 h.). [Htn.]
Violent tearing stab through the right half of the brain from the occiput to the forehead (aft. 11 h.). [Htn.]
Headache as if his head were compressed form without with pules-like beating and shooting on the temples, which pains are removed by external pressure and bending backwards, but return by bending forwards (aft. 4 h.). [Trn.]
50. Headache: a pricking formication in the head in the morning.
Drawing in the temporal muscles, an external headache, worse when chewing.
Severe stitches externally on the left temporal region (aft. 8, 12 h.). [Lr.]
Prickling pain on the temples.
Needle-pricks, especially along the forehead (aft. 5.1/2 h.). [Lr.]
55. Swelling of the veins on the temples when at rest, without heat (aft. 18 h.). [Lr.]
Three red, painful lumps on both temples.
Eruption of pimples betwixt the eyebrows, with matter in their apices, which itch somewhat (aft. 6 h.). [Lr.]
Hahnemann's three major publications chart the development of homeopathy. In the Organon of Medicine, we see the fundamentals laid out. Materia Medica Pura records the exact symptoms of the remedy provings. In his book, The Chronic Diseases, Their Peculiar Nature and Their Homoeopathic Cure, he showed us how natural diseases become chronic in nature when suppressed by improper treatment.
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