THUJA



The ears are the source of much trouble and pain. Catarrhal and other discharges purulent, offensive oozing from ears. Polyps and other growths. The same severe catarrhal states and conditions are found in the nose.

Nose red and hot or swollen; tumid, red eruption on nose. Painful pressure at root of nose. Dry or fluent coryza with cough and hoarseness. Fetid green discharges, green mucous mixed with pus and blood, or thick green mucous. Chronic catarrh after measles, scarlatina, or variola. Ozaena, warts on nose.

Heat of face or burning redness. Redness of face with fine nets of veins as if marbled; this condition is also found over the limbs. Greasy skin of face (Graph. and Tuberc.) Pains in bones of face. Neuralgia of trigeminus after suppressed gonorrhoea. Facial pains spreading to neck and head. Scabious, itching eruption on face. Red, painful nodosities on temples. Tumors and warts on the lips. Flat ulcers on inside of lips and corners of the mouth. Fungus on left lower jaw, more angry in damp weather; swelling of submaxillary glands. Toothache after drinking tea; many complaints are worse from the excess of tea and Thuja is the best antidote.

Carious teeth and very sensitive inflamed swollen gums with looseness of the teeth. Aphthae and ulcers in the mouth which feels as if burned. Salivation with swollen salivary glands. Swelling of the tongue, painful ulcers on tongue; condylomata under tongue, varicose veins under the tongue. Sweet taste with gonorrhoea; slowness of speech.

Painful; sore throat with dryness and necessity to swallow. Swelling of tonsils and throat ulcers like chancres. Large accumulation of mucous in the throat that is tenacious and hawked up with difficulty. Exophthalmic goiter.

The appetite is impaired and taste perverted, either sweet or like rotten eggs. Craves salt. Food never seems salty enough. Desires cold drinks and food. Unable to eat breakfast, a keynote of Burnetts. Aversion to fresh meat and potatoes, speedy satiety when eating (Lyc.), aggravated by onions (also Lyc.). Many distresses after eating.

Bitter or putrid risings and greasy substances. Nausea and vomiting of acid serum and of food. Indurations of stomach and abdomen. Soreness in hepatic region, pressing and constrictive pains through the whole abdomen. Sensation as if something was alive in the abdomen. Intussusception of the intestines; obstinate constipation; tenesmus with rigidity of the penis. Diarrhea, pale yellow, watery, forcibly expelled with much noisy wind and colic; worse after eating; very exhausting with short and difficult breathing; anxiety, intermitting pulse, acute pressive pain in the back.

Rapid disappearance of fat; periodic diarrhea at the same hour; stools oily or greasy, with the passing stool sensation as if burning lead were passing through. Burning soreness in rectum lasting all day. Painful contraction of anus during evacuation. Condylomata at anus. Haemorrhoidal tumor, swollen and painful, worse while sitting. Fistula in ano; fissure of anus.

Kidneys inflamed, feet swollen, diabetes. Violent burning in fundus of bladder. Frequent urging to urinate with interrupted stream. Bladder and rectum feel paralyzed, lacking power to expel; involuntary emission of urine.

The genitalia of both sexes are the site of much suffering, the characteristic stigmata of the venereal poisons are prominent. Warts, chancres, ulcerations, polypi, cauliflower excrescences, and offensive catarrhal discharges that are painful and burning with swellings, and morbid growths abound.

In the female, varicosities that are painful and burning. With the menses the breasts are painful and swollen; violent motion of the child in the womb during gestation. Abortion at the end of the third month is a feature of Thuja. Labor pains weak or ceasing, contractibility hindered by sycotic complications.

The respiratory tract presents many distressing symptoms and conditions. The voice is weak or low. Sensation of a skin in the larynx; polypus of the vocal cord, shortness of breath from mucous in the trachea. Asthma, worse at night, with red face, coughing spells with sensation of adhesion of the lungs. Asthma with gonorrhea without having been exposed to contagion. Asthma with little cough.

Asthma of sycotic children. Respiration short and quick, worse from deep inspiration and talking, relieved lying on affected side. Convulsive asthma. Cough in the morning excited by a choking sensation. Sputa green, tasting like old cheese. Spasms of lungs from drinking cold water.

Oppression and dyspnoea; pain in chest as from internal adhesion; haemorrhage from lungs copious and terribly offensive. Cramp in heart with violent and audible palpitation of heart, especially climbing stairs. Anxious palpitation or visible palpitation without anxiety.

The neck, back and limbs are recipitant of much suffering and weakness too numerous to mention here. Thuja is a paralytic remedy. However among the afflictions of these parts is gonorrheal rheumatism and left-sided sciatica with the affected leg atrophied. Emaciation and deadness of affected parts.

Sleep and dream symptoms are important and often guiding. Sleep retarded because of agitation and dry heat. Nocturnal sleeplessness with agitation and coldness of the body. Unrefreshing nocturnal sleep. Distressing, anxious dreams, of danger, of death and the dead, of falling from a height soon after falling asleep. Starting and crying out in sleep. Sleeplessness with apparitions as soon as he closes his eyes, which vanish when he opens them; lascivious dreams without emission of semen, but with painful erections on waking. Perspiration at commencement of sleep. Perspiration on parts uncovered with dry heat of covered parts; perspiration after the chill without intervening heat; perspiration at times oily, staining the clothes yellow, or fetid, or smelling sweet like honey. Perspiration only during sleep.

Typically a left-sided remedy, aggravated by touch, relieved by pressure; rubbing relieves. Closing eyes aggravates the vertigo. Overlifting and overheating aggravate the head pains. Lying on affected side relieves the asthma. Motion relieves, extension and letting limbs hang down aggravates. Worse at 3:00 a.m., early morning (the sycotic time). Worse at night, worse cold water, damp weather, change, draught, overheating, suns rays, bright light, warmth of bed. Warmth aggravates except the rheumatism which is relieved by cold. Worse after eating, especially breakfast, tea, coffee, fat food and onions. Worse after coitus and blowing nose. Worse during increasing moon; from sun and bright light.

Causation of complaint; Vaccination; gonorrhoea badly treated or suppressed; sunstroke; sexual excess; tea; coffee; beer; sweets; tobacco; fat meats; onions; Sulphur and Mercury.

DISCUSSION ON SYMPOSIUM ON THUJA.

DR. EUGENE UNDERHILL JR.: I tremble to think of what this Association would be without Dr. Hubbard. I have had the privilege of knowing her for a great many years, perhaps more than twenty years. That doesnt mean she is getting old, because when I first knew her, she was very young, and she is still young. She “enthuses” life into our organization and that is something we are sorely in need of. She is at once a wonderful wife, mother, physician, and a wonderful teacher, as I have had ample opportunity to observe at the postgraduate school, and she is one of the relatively few people who wears well. I know she has the love, respect, and admiration of every one of us.

Dr. Grimmer gave in clear detail many of the symptoms that we meet in patients needing this remedy, and then Dr. Hubbard came with a paper quite different and therefore dovetailing in with all that Dr. Grimmer has said, and I have noticed that often when an essayist is so modest as to start with an apology, we usually get a better paper than one from someone who stands up boldly and reads a whole lot of stuff that isnt worth a darn.

All I have to say further about Dr. Hubbards paper is this, that it is a teaching paper, and that is her forte. It gives generalities for the most part, but nevertheless, generalities that are so peculiar that you can use them in prescribing for your cases, and, with her and one or two others, I confess I dont understand Thuja altogether now, and I have studied it for about fifty years.

I have one case to offer in illustration. It is also a lesson in homoeopathic philosophy. It is a case of a man about thirty-six years old who had a large wart on the left side of his chin. This was about as large as the half of a marrow fat pea, and arranged very nicely around it were twenty little warts.

Then in the center of the left lumbar region he had a huge condyloma. It was irregular and fissured to some extent, but soft, with a few other symptoms.

I naturally chose the remedy Thuja, and gave him a dose of the 10M. He came in in about five days with most of the little fellows on his chin having disappeared, and gradually when they were all gone, the large ones started in as though following them, like the grandfather following his children to the wart heaven. They all disappeared. Then the one on his backside became reddened and grew smaller, but this is three years ago and it is still there, and I havent yet found the remedy that will cure it.

A. H. Grimmer
Arthur Hill Grimmer 1874-1967 graduated from the Hering Medical College (in 1906) as a pupil of James Tyler Kent and he later became his secretary, working closely with him on his repertory. He practiced in Chicago for 50 years before moving to Florida. He was also President of the American Institute for Homoeopathy.
In his book The Collected Works of Arthur Hill Grimmer, Grimmer spoke out against the fluoridation of water and vaccinations. Grimmer wrote prodigeously, Gnaphalium, Homeopathic Prophylaxis and Homeopathic Medicine and Cancer: The Philosophy and Clinical Experiences of Dr. A.H. Grimmer, M.D.