Letra Homeopatica

Understanding Thuja

Dr. Claudio C Araujo MD, FF Hom. (Lon) et al.

A few years ago, a woman in her fifties came to see me in the outpatient department at the Instituto Hahnemanniano do Brasil. Her major complaints were all from a psychological origin: Panic Syndrome, very depressed and with a very strong anxiety. Her mental state was her major problem, covering up all other symptoms. On a close investigation I found out that all her clinical picture has started when she came to see her gynecologist, due to strong bleeding during menses. She was diagnosed uterine fibroids, and a surgery was indicated. From that moment on - she said - she couldn’t think of anything else. The image of a scalp opening her abdomen was haunting her, day and night. She said that she couldn’t bear this possible invasion inside her abdomen. The idea of opening her body was so scaring and violent that, from that moment on she begun to have panic attacks, anguish and anxiety.

Thuja was prescribed, with a disappearance of all her sufferings.

We believe that this is the starting point of Thuja: her relationship with her own body. Many symptoms coming from the proving will illustrate Thuja’s impression:

Sensation as if whole body were very thin and delicate and could not resist least attack as if continuity of body would be dissolved. θ Chronic hysteria.

Mental depression, after childbirth, in consequence of being told that there had been a slight rupture of perineum; grows quiet; thinks she must die; cannot sleep; has no appetite; shuns people; does not answer; seems not to understand a question; cannot count; is in constant anguish; wants to jump out of window; does not care for children or her relatives; stares before herself; hydrogenoid constitution.

Feeling as if body were frail and easily broken.

But – on the other hand – there are symptoms from the proving and from clinical cases describing a very happy and sensitive person, someone who likes partying, soft drinks, dancing and being with one´s friends to celebrate living.

Extraordinary sensitiveness to every impression; he gives way to the humor of the moment, so that he always goes from one extreme to the other; his whole existence consists of only extremes, wherewith he is always irresistibly inclined to agreeable exciting, heating drinks, but without intoxication; these happy and exalted reveries constantly increase from day to day, overstepping all bounds and becoming a joyful, dizzy intoxication, with entire extinction of reason.

On top of that, mingled with her sensations of fragility and her desire for partying and being with one’s friends, there are Thuja´s many “paranormal” experiences. The proving will detail what is coming up from her imagination:

She often fancies that someone is sitting near her, with whom she talks aloud while she is lying quite wide awake with open eyes, and wonders when she is asked with whom she is talking, then she does not know what to think of it,.

Sleep interrupted by frequent waking, when she saw an apparition in the room, to which she spoke, sitting upright in bed; at another time she felt as though some one hit against her, so that she called out, "Who is there?" and started up, when she seemed to see distinctly a basket swimming before her eyes, so that she rose and struck a light in order to see more clearly; after lying down, violent palpitation (twelfth month).

Unrefreshing sleep, interrupted by terrible dreams (of the dead), (twelfth day); restless dreams (twenty-first night); dreams (twenty-third night); night disturbed by many dreams and frequent micturition (thirty-fifth night).

Startled from sleep, at night, by an apparition, the upper part of whose body frequently rose in bed.

When asleep, dead persons appear to her; she can distinctly see and feel them, and she thinks she is talking with them,

Constant dreams of the features of a corpse,

At night, while lying awake with closed eyes, she seems to see ghosts, and also now and then all kinds of animals brilliantly illuminated, coming to her from a distance and then disappearing; on opening her eyes everything disappears, but returns on closing the eyes again,

While half-awake it suddenly seems as though a chair were standing in the middle of the bed; she tries to rise in order to move it, but cannot move a limb, with a sensation as though the whole body were as heavy as lead, then she tries to call for help; can utter no sound, and lies with open eyes fully awake and in indescribable anxiety; only after a quarter of an hour is she able to call out, which ends the attack,

We may now foresee what comes next, if we picture someone living on the XIX century:

She herself desires, with anxiety and despair, to be taken to an insane asylum, and there to be treated very harshly and strictly, so that her fixed ideas may be subdued and banished; she knows very well that she does wrong and thinks all sorts of bad thoughts, but she will not take the trouble to banish such thoughts; therewith she indistinctly gives to understand that she is constantly obliged to think of taking her own life, but feels the sinfulness of it, and, in order to avoid it, desires the strict restraint of the asylum; her condition is worse in the morning; in the evening, however, she mingles in society as usual, behaves correctly, and even jokes, only she is more distracted than usual,.

She constantly longs for the offices of the church in order to banish her sinful thoughts of suicide,

She feels and says that she is deranged and unfit to live, as a punishment for a fault which she cannot name, with talking of the most confused subjects without any connection, sense, or understanding; commences every sentence anew without ability to finish it in spite of every effort of the vanishing memory.

She fancies that she has committed a sin,

Constant anxiety, as if he had committed a great crime, with forgetfulness and general trembling, even to disturbing sleep,

Sudden rising of dark thoughts causing uneasiness, apprehension of misfortune, with fancied scruples of conscience, and with a distinct sensation as if they came from within the abdomen to the heart, with sleeplessness and an internal uneasiness, especially of the lower portion of the back, which compelled him to move constantly; all inner portions seemed shaken, and trembled easily; really the trembling immediately destroyed all sharp thought, so that his ideas became confused and mixed (after three weeks)..

Constant dreaming, with a feeling of great glowing over the whole body,

If she assumes her paranormal condition, it will be full of anguish mingled with pride:

He often dreamed in a clear day, with open eyes without being asleep, for an hour at a time; in this he especially reveled in overpowering selfishness, himself the central point about which everything must turn, with an intoxicated feeling of the most joyous self-satisfaction, which is the more important since usually he is constantly melancholy,

We can imagine a woman from the XIX century having paranormal experiences: She may desperately admits that it´s not her, that she went crazy, and she needs to be exorcized by “the offices of the church” She may even believe that there´s a division between her body and her soul, asking to be taking in an asylum where she will be punished for “her wrong doings”.

But – if we could picture the Thuja patient now in the XXI century - who is the person before us?

The combination of fragility and the longing for partying must be there, but during our studies it has been questioned if the Thuja patient will give vent to all her desires for partying and drinking, being she herself someone so frail, sensitive and delicate. Besides: Thuja´s paranormal activities - is she now being part of a spiritual religion that “comprehends and embraces” her clairvoyance, her abilities of “being in touch” with the dead and is she a “medium between this world and the other one” able to spot the others “auras” and becoming a helper during spiritual treatments? Feelings, dreams ant thoughts that during the XIX century were assumed and taked as devilish obsessions, in the XXI century are being held and understood by different religions as a “quality and sensitivity” of some persons.

Whatsoever, the Thuja patient must someone sensitive, someone that loves the festive side of living, but feels oneself as someone frail, made of glass, prone to break up. Long time ago a patient told me that he has never played football with is friends during his teenage years, due to a sensation that his legs were very fragile and could be broken from any given shock with the other players. Thuja helped him very much. The other “Thuja symptoms” were not present, only his “prone to be broken” sensation and we believe that this should be the main aspect of this patient. But one´s sensitiveness may be present, as also one´s love for a good living an maybe - only maybe - a spooky imagery from time to time…

Groups in Thuja officinalis

Symptoms from Hahnemann, Hering, Allen, Kent & Clarke

Dr. Claudio C Araujo MD, FFHom (Lon.)

With the Environment

Constant dreaming, with a feeling of great glowing over the whole body, [12].

Cannot endure soft, tender music without tensive spasm of the heart, [12].

Music causes him to weep, with trembling of feet.

Screaming in sleep from anxious dreams of cats or furious dogs, [12].

Sleep waking, in which she seemed to see passing before her eyes, most of the time, different animals; sometimes, also, she sees building stones, [12].

Disquiet, which renders everything troublesome and repugnant.

Extremely scrupulous about small things. θ Hysteralgia.

Religious piteousness

Mental dullness with pious fanaticism; no desire to work; anxious restlessness, sleeplessness, constipation and suppression of catamenia.

Weak-minded, pious condition,

Weak-minded, with pious fanaticism, dread of work, incessant restlessness,

sleeplessness, constipation and suppression of the menses; gradually decreased after fourteen days after the dose, and within nine months became permanently and radically cured.

Humor

Good humor

Inclined to talk (after sixteen hours), [8]. [Curative reaction. -Hahnemann.]

Good humor without gayety (after seven hours), [8]. [Curative reaction. -Hahnemann.]

Good humor (after fifteen hours), [8]. [Curative reaction. -Hahnemann.]

Spasmodic laughing and weeping at the same time, [12].

Mood especially cheerful (thirty-eighth day), [43].

Spirits excited, lively and loquacious (effect of the alcohol?), [62].

During the febrile symptoms his mind is quiet, and he is well disposed (after three hours and a half), [3].

Earnest mood

Remarkably earnest mood in a young girl,

Very earnest frame of mind in spite of the cheerfulness of those around him, in the evening (sixtieth day), [72].

Ill humor

Ill-humor (after twelve months), [13]; (fifth day).

Ill-humor, with dullness in the head (twelfth and thirteenth days); ill-humored and restless (seventeenth day),

Want of disposition to do anything, ill-humor and inclination to anger, [38].

Exceedingly ill-humored, speaks but little (twenty-ninth day), [76].

Impatient ill-humor, [12].

Very ill-humored and depressed, [1].

Very ill-humored and excited, with death constantly before her eyes, [12].

Hurried, with ill-humor; talks hastily.

Disinclined to talk, < on awaking mornings.

Want of disposition to do anything, ill-humor, anger.

Peevishness (fifth day), [78]; (thirty-first day), [73].

Great irritability (after one year), [13].

Irritable humor, in the afternoon (twenty-sixth day), [76].

Very peevish and passionate, always in renewed paroxysms, [12].

Fretful if everything does not go according to his wishes, [11].

Excited mood: he is irritable, especially if any one says anything of which he does not exactly approve (after thirty days), [13].

Morose, quarrels about a harmless joke, [11].

Vexatious, mostly in the morning, [13].

Constantly irritated and vexed at everything, [13].

Very changeable moods, [13].

Gloomy

Very gloomy mood, in the afternoon (ninth day), [26].

Gloomy, melancholy state of mind; came on in the afternoon, which was still apparent on waking next morning (after second dose, second day), [45].

Very gloomy frame of mind, before going to sleep (seventy-third day), [72].

Anxiet

Anxiety (after ninth day), [42].

After half an hour sleep, was suddenly seized with anxiety, after which slight perspiration broke out; whereupon he fell asleep, but continually started up again.

Anxiety, with intolerable aching in the chest, even to spasmodic weeping and screaming, recurring daily, at 4 to 5 P.M. (second week),

Anxiety, with internal trembling, confusion of the head, and difficult speech, alternating with spasmodic laughing (ninth month).

Anxious, lachrymose despondency.

Very anxious thoughts, with heat of the head and anxiety about the heart, driving out of bed and house, [12].

Constantly tormented by groundless anxiety, [12].

Great and constant anxiety without cause, [12].

Anxious and without thought, she went about as in a whirl, with heaviness of the head and limbs, [12].

Frightful anxiety at night, so that she cried aloud from internal distress, [12].

Weeping

Music causes him to weep, with trembling of feet.

Weeping and trembling of the feet during music, [12].

Exceedingly out of tune, sad and disposed to weep.

Weeping mood (fourth day),

Violent spasmodic weeping in the evening, changing to febrile coldness, which lasted all night, [12].

Spasmodic weeping, with hiccough and twitching of the hands and feet, [12].

Constant weeping mood, with anxious oppression, [12].

Despondency frequently occasioning a sobbing weeping, [12].

Great indifference, changing to weeping, [12].

Passionate, overexcited

Overexcited, quarrelsome; easily angered about trifles.

Passionate in unexpected attacks,

Very much excited; at one time cried, at another laughed,

Causelessly excited and inclined to be angry; contrary to all his previous habits (fifty-fourth day),

Sadness, depression, anguish

Very depressed, sad, irritable.

Sleeplessness at night; restlessness and tossing about; anguish which does not allow him to sleep; sleep full of dreams and starting.

Loathing of life; very ill-humored and depressed.

Sad mood (seventh day), [26].

Sad mood and discouragement (thirteenth day), [24].

She has constantly very sad thoughts about the merest trifles, in which she stares in front of her and picks at her nails, [12].

Exceedingly out of tune, sad, and disposed to weep (twenty-fourth day), [76].

Mood very unhappy, despairing, [12].

Melancholy in the forenoon, more cheerful in the afternoon; this alternation has manifested itself for some days past (thirty-second day), [75].

Extreme melancholy (fifth day), [76].

Depressed in body and mind (twenty-first day), [76].

Very low-spirited (twenty-second day), [76].

Very depressed, sad, irritable mood, [12].

Discontentment, [1].

Loathing of life, [1].

Tired of life

Uneasiness of mind for many days, everything seems burdensome and distressing,

Mental uneasiness; low-spirited and desponding; passionate; tired of life; morose; dissatisfied; unsteady.

While talking, she is unable to go on in spite of every effort; she begins to weep bitterly, and says she can no longer think or live, [12].

Despair

Constant great despair changes at last to complete indifference,

Increasing despair which allows rest nowhere, seemed to be intolerable day and night,

With Oneself

Very desponding. θ Gonorrhœa.

Feels as if she cannot exist any longer; quiet, shunning everybody.

Loathing of life; very ill-humored and depressed.

Frail and easily broken.

Sensation as if whole body were very thin and delicate and could not resist least attack as if continuity of body would be dissolved. θ Chronic hysteria.

Feeling as if body were frail and easily broken.

Fixed ideas: as if a strange person were at his side; as if soul and body were separated; that body, particularly limbs, are made of glass and will readily break; as if a living animal were in abdomen; talks about being under the influence of a superior power.

Suicidal

Feels as if she cannot exist any longer; quiet, shunning everybody.

She constantly longs for the offices of the church in order to banish her sinful thoughts of suicide, [12].

Had done wrong

She fancies that she has intentionally represented herself as insane in the presence of others in order to palliate a wrong supposed to have been done, and that now she is punished, therefore, by real insanity, [12].

She feels and says that she is deranged and unfit to live, as a punishment for a fault which she cannot name, with talking of the most confused subjects without any connection, sense, or understanding; commences every sentence anew without ability to finish it in spite of every effort of the vanishing memory, [12].

She fancies that she has committed a sin, [12].

Constant anxiety, as if he had committed a great crime, with forgetfulness and general trembling, even to disturbing sleep, [12].

Long dreams, caused by conversation in the evening, with deep reflection; he relies upon his good conscience when accused of a crime, [11].

Constant dreaming, with a feeling of great glowing over the whole body, [12].

Sensation of lightness in body when walking.

Weak-minded, pious condition, [12].

Apprehensive (thirty-ninth day), [16].

Apprehension of becoming sick (ninth day), [66].

Dread that she would be attacked with apoplexy, with confused tremulousness and anxious perspiration, [12].

At night she woke, having an anxious sensation on every breath, as if the throat were swelling, [12].

Anxious dream on falling asleep; he felt some dull thrusts in the left side; woke and gasped for air (after eighteen hours), [11].

She feels and says that she is deranged and unfit to live, as a punishment for a fault which she cannot name, with talking of the most confused subjects without any connection, sense, or understanding; commences every sentence anew without ability to finish it in spite of every effort of the vanishing memory,

She fancies that she has committed a sin,

Body and soul

Frightful anxiety, like death agony; a nameless internal ache, as if the soul were escaping from the body, with most terrible uneasiness, frightful orgasm of blood, at night, even to suffocation (at the beginning of the seventh month), [12].

She has a decided sensation that her soul is separated from her body, and in such a condition hears and feels everything as from a distance, [12].

Quiet, absorbed in himself, without thought, unsteady, she walks about from place to place without knowing what she wants, [12].

After rising, she is unable to go on with her dressing, and constantly requires the reminding assistance of others, [12].

Inattention to what was going on about him, [11].

Inability to fix the attention and to think, with crawling in the hands and head, [12].

Death

Continual thoughts of dying, with increasing weakness, [12].

Presentiment of death, [12].

When lying on the left side at night he dreams of dangers and death, [1].

Constant dreams of the features of a corpse.

When asleep, dead persons appear to her; she can distinctly see and feel them, and she thinks she is talking with them, [12].

Very much frightened, to trembling of the whole body, [12].

Frightful dream, from which he awoke with a sensation of heat in the body, [10].

Averse to everything; anxious and solicitous about the future, [1].

Kent: Many women suffer from grumbling pains in the ovaries all the time, they have a sense of the organ, which they should not feel; pain from taking cold or in change of weather; the increase of the pain in the left ovary is the first sign; sometimes the pain is so severe that the right one suffers apparently, from sympathy. Where the ovaries have been affected for some time there will be mental symptoms, a most violent irritability, jealous, quarrelsomeness, ugliness.

This irritability is likely to been shown towards individuals about the house, toward the husband and the mother; she is yet able to control herself among strangers and the doctor may not be able to find out about it, because she has in her nature a disposition to cheat; she wants to be alone and takes upon herself fixed ideas; that she is pregnant, or that an animal is in her bowels, she is followed, or that someone is walking beside her, thinks that soul and body are separated.

Now, these are fixed ideas, and there is no use trying to reason them out of her. It seems to her that she is very delicate, that she is made of glass and that she will break. The idea is that she will break, and not that she is transparent.

With the others

Insane women will not be touched or approached.

Nervousness to such a degree that approach of a stranger gave her sudden twitches; when spoken to answered with tears and sobbing; skin on chest and right side of abdomen deep yellow.

Startled from sleep, at night, by an apparition, the upper part of whose body frequently rose in bed, [12].

When asleep, dead persons appear to her; she can distinctly see and feel them, and she thinks she is talking with them, [12].

Constant dreams of the features of a corpse, [12].

After revaccination, cannot sleep; canine hunger; after eating, great fullness; had been drinking hard some weeks ago, since then sleeplessness; loss of appetite; profuse sweats day and night; slight unpainful discharge from urethra; tremulous limbs; visions of strange people at night; great anxiety and restlessness; cannot remain in bed, must walk about; scanty urine; frequent urination.

Remarkable indifference to the opposite sex, [59].

Sudden unaccountable anxiety in the head, which, against her will, compels her to call someone, [12].

Sleep at night disturbed by heavy harassing dreams (sixteenth day), [76].

She could no longer recognize her acquaintances, and could not recall those she had lately seen, even if they had but just been seen by her, [12].

Work

Mental dullness with pious fanaticism; no desire to work; anxious restlessness, sleeplessness, constipation and suppression of catamenia.

Walks her room in a circle; inability to accomplish most simple work, even dressing; makes no demand for food, has to be reminded to take it, which she does without reluctance; several old warts on neck, and several of later growth, soft to touch, like lipoma and pointed; prolapsus vaginæ; amenorrhœa.

Indisposition to any kind of intellectual labor.

Weak-minded, with pious fanaticism, dread of work, incessant restlessness, sleeplessness, constipation and suppression of the menses, gradually decreased after fourteen days after the dose, and within nine months became permanently and radically cured, [12].

Aversion to all work, [12].

Indisposition to any kind of intellectual labor (sixty-sixth day), [73].

Unfitted for every work on account of a confused whirling of thoughts in the head, [12].

A delightful feeling of corporeal well-being and inclination to intellectual labor, in the afternoon (twenty-eighth day), [72].

The power of thought was increased, but rather for analytical than synthetical reasoning (sixty-fifth day), [72].

Male Sexuality

Excitation or depression in genital system.

Nightly painful erections causing sleeplessness.

Irresistible inclination to onanism even during sleep.

Nocturnal emissions: wake him; followed by heaviness and ill-humor.

Feeling in the testicles as if they moved, disappeared while walking in the open air (fifth day), [71].

Four pollutions (fourth night), [78].

A pollution towards morning (seventh night), [65].

A pollution in the night, and afterwards a troublesome burning in the urethra (first night); a pollution in the night (fourth day); at 4 A.M. (tenth night); in the night (twelfth day), [66].

Emissions become more frequent, [12].

Nocturnal emission, with distressing pain in the orifice of the urethra, as though too tight, [7].

Nocturnal emission, whereupon he awoke (after twenty-three and forty-eight hours), [8].

The sexual impulse was again active, with normal results, on awaking in the morning (twenty-eighth day), [73].

Great excitement in the genital organs, especially tickling in the prepuce and glans, at noon (sixtieth day), [73].

Sexual impulse much exalted (till thirteenth day), [72].

The sexual impulse was exceedingly importunate (sixth and seventh days), [64].

In the night, increased sexual desire, which, during the whole course of the preceding proving, had been rather diminished than exalted (second day), [49].

Voluptuous fancies and an erection (the first since taking Thuja), with discharge of prostatic fluid, while lying down (fifty-seventh day), [13].

In the evening he was very much excited sexually, which did not entirely disappear after coition, so that he only fell asleep towards midnight (fifty-eighth day), [13].

Excited sexual impulse (fortieth day), [52].

Lascivious dreams, at night, with a pollution (thirty-sixth night), [44].

Lascivious dreams of coition, but without emission; on waking a painful erection, [1].

An emission causing faintness towards morning, followed by heaviness and ill-humor, [12].

Emission becoming more infrequent, and afterwards ceasing entirely, [12].

Persistent impotency, [12].

During the whole duration of the experiments (unica nocte exempta) the sexual impulse was diminished even to indifference, [50].

The striking indifference to sexual intercourse, by no means customary, continued during the whole experiment, and, in fact, still longer, [62].

He has no desire for coition for a long time, [12].

Female Sexuality

Very acute voluptuous excitement in the genitals, with increased leucorrhœa, quite contrary to her will and habit, [12].

Pregnancy

Child moves so violently it awakens her, causes cutting in bladder with urging to urinate; pains in left Sacro-iliac articulation, running into groin; eighth month.

Childhood

The child is excessively obstinate.

The child is excessively obstinate; on the slightest contradiction it throws itself to the ground in rage and loses its breath.

The boy speaks with excessive haste, frequently jumping over words and syllables, however without stammering, [12].

Aversion to all company, in a young girl usually full of life, [12].

Intellectual

Speaks very slowly, and in monosyllables.

Distraction of mind.

Distracted in mind, unsteady, and inclined to do now this, now that (after six hours),

Intellectual exercise soon fatigues, in the evening (twenty-first day), [72].

Mind affected; he cannot get rid of a thought he has just had, [1].

Thought is very irksome, [12].

Makes mistakes in talking, writing and looking.

In reading or writing uses wrong expressions and omits words and syllables. Commences every sentence anew without ability to finish it in spite of every effort of memory.

Cannot think, talks slowly as if hunting for words; uses wrong words.

Talks hastily and swallows words.

Speaks very slowly and monosyllabically (twenty-seventh day), [76].

Collects his thoughts and speaks slowly; he seeks for words while talking (after third day), [1].

Clear, connected thought, when writing a letter, becomes more and more difficult, till impossible, [12].

In thought, she often misses words; on the other hand, it often happens that a great many little insignificant words interpolate themselves, as if involuntarily tumbling in between the others, [12].

He made mistakes in writing very frequently; with the greatest attention he changed or omitted at one time letters, at another syllables, at another whole words, [12].

He frequently makes mistakes in talking and writing, with confusion of the head, vertigo, fluttering and flickering before the eyes, so that he could not see distinctly (after six months), [13].

He makes mistakes in talking, and writing, and in looking (after twelve months), [13].

Makes frequent mistakes in writing (after thirteen months), [13].

Makes mistakes in talking very frequently, for several days (forty-fifth day); makes mistakes in talking and writing, for several days (sixty-second days); *when writing, she omits words, so that it is difficult to write a letter (sixty-fifth day); makes many mistakes in talking and writing, omits syllables and words (after ten months), [14].

Thoughts vanish, with vertigo, [12].

Sudden vanishing of thought, with dull headache, [12].

Vanishing of thought and senses, as in delirium, [12].

Thoughts vanish, so that she does not know what she is about to say, [13].

While reading, he is unable to follow he meaning understandingly, [12].

Memory very weak; he forgets everything which he does not write down; has great difficulty in fixing the attention (after twelve months), [13].

Forgetfulness, [12]; (twenty-first day), [16].

Forgetfulness, could scarcely collect his senses for half an hour in morning on waking; unable to go on with her dressing, constantly requires reminding.  

Thoughtlessness; forgetfulness.

Continued loss of thought, [12].

Could scarcely collect his senses for half an hour, in the morning on waking, [1].

Stupid, as if intoxicated, especially in the morning, [2].

Excessive thoughtfulness about the merest trifle, [1].

Neurological

Felt as if stupefied, sleepy, and weak for four hours after the dose (thirtieth day); stupefaction and weakness again, but not lasting so long (thirty-first day), [75].

Stupefaction (effects of the alcohol?), (first and second days); stupefied (twenty-fifth day), [76].

Stupefaction of head; vertigo, reeling sensation, as after turning in a circle.

Constant coma for two or three days (sixth week), [12].

Flesh feels as if beaten loose from bones.

Frequent starts or jerks of upper part of body. θ Chorea.

Weakness; debility, < mornings; debilitated all over as from fatigue.

Rapid exhaustion, causing oppressed and short breathing; irregular and intermitting pulse.

Imbecility of mind and loss of speech after vaccination; restless sleep, fretfulness, peevishness; cries all day; eyes stare vaguely; occasional flow of saliva from mouth; looks like an idiot.

After revaccination, falling out of hair, which is very dry; headache; vertigo; poor sleep; difficult falling asleep; nightly restlessness; weakness in lower extremities; constant thirst; pain in epigastrium.

Chorea, at night and in morning; craving appetite; dry hair; very ill-humored and obstinate; laughs a good deal without cause.

Raving at night in sleep; during which he sat up, beat with his hands about the bed, packed his things, and tried to jump out of bed; speaking to him did not suffice to bring him back (fourth week), [12].

Dreams

Uneasy sleep with dreams (after sixty-eight hours), [8].

Uneasy sleep; he tosses about on account of a feeling of too great warmth, [1].

Interrupted sleep, full of anxious dreams (sixth night), [78].

Restless sleep (thirteenth night); sleep extremely restless (nineteenth night); occasional naps during the night (twenty-fifth day), [76].

Sleep restless and full of dreams (fourteenth day); sleep restless and disturbed with dreams (twentieth day); sleep interrupted and restless (thirty-second and thirty-third days); restless sleep and vivid dreams (ninety-third day), [43].

She cries out in sleep, at night, [1].

Very short sleep and very early waking, in the morning, so that the most diverse thoughts chased through the head and caused excitement of the whole body, similar to moving and trembling, [12].

At night she woke, having an anxious sensation on every breath, as if the throat were swelling, [12].

Uneasy sleep with dreams (after sixty-eight hours), [8].

Uneasy sleep; he tosses about on account of a feeling of too great warmth, [1].

Interrupted sleep, full of anxious dreams (sixth night), [78].

Restless sleep (thirteenth night); sleep extremely restless (nineteenth night); occasional naps during the night (twenty-fifth day), [76].

She cries out in sleep, at night, [1].

Sleep at night full of dreams and startings up, [1].

Sleep interrupted by dreams (twelfth day), [49].

He dreams immediately on falling asleep, [1].

After having spent a night full of dreams, woke greatly improved (seventeenth day), [26].

Dream of the occupation of the preceding evening (seventy-first day), [13].

Unusually vivid dreams at night of long past events, [12].

Lively and pleasant dreams (second night), [56].

Anxious dreams with loud cries, [1].

Disquieting dreams (fourth night), [78].

Frightful dream, from which he awoke with a sensation of heat in the body, [10].

Nightmare, at night, passing off on turning from the left to the right side, which was accomplished with difficulty (seventh month), [12].

SENSATIONS

As if a living animal were in abdomen; as if a nail were pressing into vertex; as if vertex were pierced with a needle; as if a nail were driven from within outward in vertex; as if a nail were driven into right parietal bone and left frontal eminence; lightning-like headache; as if a convex button were pressed on left head; as if head were screwed asunder; as if forehead would fall out; as if bones of head were being knocked to pieces; forehead, ears and eyes as if stabbed; as if knives went tearing around in brain; as if beaten; as of insects on occiput and temples; as if eyes were swollen and would be pressed out of head; as of fine sand in eyes; as if a cold stream of air were blowing through eyes; as of a foreign body in eye; as if flesh were torn from bones in left side and back; as if abdominal muscles were pushed out by arm of a child; sudden bounding in right iliac region as of something alive; as if blood could not circulate in back opposite pit of stomach; as if boiling lead were passing through rectum; as if anus would fly to pieces during stool; as if skin of anus were cracked and chapped; bladder as if paralyzed; as of moisture running in urethra; as if a tape prevented urination; as of a single drop running along urethra; as if testicles moved; as if testicles were contused; as of a skin in larynx; as if something were grown fast in region of left lower ribs; as of falling drops in chest; legs as if made of wood when waking; as if lower extremities were elongated; as if muscles of thighs would break down; lightness in body when walking; as if flesh were beaten from bones; as if skin were pricked with needles; as from flea-bites.

GENERALS

The odor of the prover was exceedingly, almost intolerably, increased, so as to become perceptible to those about (after twelve hours), [68].

A peculiar spoiled, cadaverous odor from the whole body, without perspiration, [12].

Dresses have become loose (eighty-fourth day), [42].

The effect of revaccination is changed; three persona who had taken a dose of Thuja, four to eight weeks previously, exhibited peculiar symptoms on revaccination; at first the vaccine developed in the usual acute manner, but after four days it began to be indistinct, and disappeared rapidly in a way never before observed under similar conditions without the action of the drug; but the cure, which was progressing previously, was seriously interrupted by this continued poisoning, so that afterwards the cure was more difficult and more prolonged, and especially the weakness of mind rapidly approached idiocy, [12].

Estudos

THUJA OFFICINALIS