Time forbids a complete review of the particular symptoms; some of the chief are as follows:.
VERTIGO: worse closing the eyes (Lachesis, Ther.).
HEADACHE: as of a nail, in small spots (Ign., Anac.); as of tight hoop; worse left temple; tearing over left brow; from sex excess and overheating; better pressure, air, head back; worse warmth, one sided; from malar region back to occiput (opp. Spig.); numb head.
EYES: myopia; lid tumors; styes; objects tremble; black spots floating or green stripes; as if cold air blowing through eye; tearing pain in left eye better by heat; sclerotitis.
NOSE: warts; eruptions on wings; green, bloody coryza.
EARS: Hum in left ear and brain; cramping pain in the ear; polyps.
FACE: Boring in left zygoma, better touch.
MOUTH: Twitching left upper lip; visible papillae on tongue; warts on tongue; ranula; varicosities of the throat; tartar; sensitive teeth; teeth break at the gum; black mark at the gum line; caries of sides, not roots or crowns.
G. I.: Desires cold drink before eating; thirsty in afternoon; big spleen; sore, red, pouting navel; stool recedes; torpid constipation; hard black balls or large stool habitually; several loose stools a day (Puls.). Diarrhoea from vaccination, coffee or onions; gurgling like water from bung of barrel; grass green stools; ileus; knotty, lumpy protruding abdomens; watery diarrhoea after breakfast; left hernia; piles worse sitting; fissured anus; condylomata; pain in rectum during stool.
G. U.: Urinary tantrums; G.C. prostatitis; chancroid; retracted testicle; knotty prostate; thin, green, scalding discharge during urination; gleet (last drop); hydrocele; orchitis with squeezing in the left testicle; left kidney pain extending to bladder; retention of urine with painful urge with sensation as if the urine passed; trickling and dribbling; sensitive vagina; inner thighs red and excoriated; bloody, watery or green gonorrhoea, better by motion; tearing pain left ovary extending to the thighs, worse during menses; burning, bursting in the ovary; menses early, short, scanty; fetus too active; nipples retracted.
CHEST: Asthmas in sycotic children (Med., Nat. sulph.); bronchitis chronic, or after acute disease, with oppression of the chest, loose cough, copious green or white morning sputum; persistent, dry hacking cough from throat irritation (cleans up more chronic bronchitis than any remedy I know); breast lumps after vaccination.
BACK: Stiff from the left nape to the ear.
EXTREMITIES: post G. C. rheumatism relieved by cold and motion; cracking of joints; restless knees; painful soles; myositis ossificans; elephantiasis; finger tips cold as if dead; flesh as if beaten from bones; tingling of the left middle finger; sciatica; left paralysis; brown mottling of the dorsa of the hands; hang nails; offensive foot sweat.
SLEEP: Insomnia, worse after 3 a.m.; takes long time to wake up.
CHILL: fever and sweat: Chilly in the morning; chill starts in thigh; chill with yawning; shuddering on uncovering; copious sweat on falling asleep; sweat on undressing; sweat of all but the head (opp. Sil.); sweat only on uncovered parts; sweat during sleep; sweat stains yellow; one-sided sweat; thirst before sweat stage.
SKIN: Eruptions on covered parts only; livid spots remain after eruptions; absorbs proud flesh and scars; blisters worse uncovering; zona worse labia or prepuce; cephalomata; cauliflower or coxcomb excrescences; pale polypi; lipomas; annular, scaly blotches. Thuja prevents pitting in ache or smallpox. Warts fig, seed, jagged, pedunculated, divided into parts with broad base, burning, spongy, soft, bleeding. Strawberry marks, birth marks, angiomas.
RELATIONSHIPS: Complementary to Ars., Med., Nat. mur., Nat. sulph., Sab., Sil. Goes in series Puls.,Sil., Fluor. ac., Thuja or Ars., Thuja, Tarant.
Related to Nit. ac., Puls., Staph., Agar., and, according to Boger, also Merc. Compare with Castor– the beaver who lives on the bark of resinous trees. Follows Cann. sat. and Staph. (Note Ars. is syphilitic and psoric, but not sycotic.).
Teste groups Thuja with Plat., Bism., Castor and Squill.
Such is a glimpse of the Arbor Vitae which is supposed to have specific antibacterial action. It is not used nearly enough in its spheres not directly related to genito-urinary troubles. It is to be though of with the nosodes for frequent and fundamental cure.
