I think we all basically have heard a lot about Thuja. I am not going to go through the essence. It can come sometimes from small pox vaccinations. Also you can think of Silica, Sulphur, or Malandrinum. It can also come from gonorrhea, either in the patient himself or from the parents, and from suppression of warts. The head, usually the skin is greasy. The hair can be greasy or it can be dry and stick up.

Left-sided headaches. It is one of the main remedies in left-sided headaches. Especially if you hear left-sided headache in a male, you are being set up for Thuja. Tumors or warts on the face, one the eyelids, especially or on the nose like Causticum or Nitric Acid. There is a keynote of the nose running during stool. You won’t see that terribly often, but it is a remedy that a lot of times we come to from keynotes because it is hard to find the personality.

Craving for onions. Even though they are aggravated or sometimes have an aversion to onions. Also Allium Cepa craves onions.

There is a sensation of something living in the belly which often they won’t tell you. They may say, "I feel something moving" or they will say, "I feel like I’m pregnant", or sometimes they say they feel like there is an animal inside.

Of course, condylomata, uterine polyps. You know forked urine is a keynote. A lot of people have forked urination once a month or once a week. If they have it every time they urinate, I would like to try and end up with one of those remedies. Especially if they didn’t have some other real strong indication for other remedies. If that was the most unusual thing about the case and it was strong, yeah. I’m talking like a Thuja, you know, hedging my bets. If that was the only symptom in the case and they had it every time they go and it was.

Problems with the nails; either corrugated or pitted, or thickened on the toes. Well, it could any change in the nail you could think of Thuja. Silica is the main remedy for ingrown toenails. It is one of the best confirmations for Silica. Thuja and Silica.

Sleep on the left side. Can wake 3-4 A.M.

Perspiration sweetish.

Remember the characteristic voice where they start to mumble. They start their sentences and then they trail off. When I get a case history and somebody tells me a case history, and the history comes out all confused I say, "Why is this so confused?" A lot of times they say well they just couldn’t explain it right. They couldn’t tell me. I had to talk to them for two hours to get the story out. Thuja. If you hear that or if you realize that that ok, you were in Los Angeles and you were with so and so and then you went here? Well, no I didn’t exactly go there then. You keep double backing and backtracking and you can’t get the picture of what in the world happened and then finally it becomes clear and it is Thuja. That case. Does that ring any bells?

Then the fixed ideas about the body. Not just that they are pregnant or that they have something living inside, but that the idea of fragile. They won’t say any more nowadays that something is made of glass. They will just say that they feel fragile. It sounds better. Like all the psychotic remedies, they are worse from humidity. It is a very tricky remedy.

1. Fleshy persons; dark, shiny, greasy complexion especially forehead; black hair and unhealthy skin; lymphatic temperament. Hydrogenoid constitution.

2. Depression even to melancholia; dislikes company; weary of life, peevish, quarrelsome; loss of memory; excitable, always in a hurry. Fantastic fixed ideas: (a) of strange person by his side, (b) of separation of soul and body, (c) of animal or something alive in the abdomen, (d) of brittleness, as if body and limbs made of glass, (e) of domination by some superior power.

3. Sycosis and vaccinosis; ailments from vaccination (especially diarrhea), suppressed gonorrhea (especially rheumatic arthritis) and chronic effects of tea drinking, meat-eating and smoking.

4. Chronic headaches with mental confusion; pain dull or as if pierced by a nail (Coffea, Ignatia); < morning on waking or evening at bedtime, preventing sleep; > open air. Vertigo on closing the eyes (Lachesis, Theridion).

5. Chronic muco-purulent discharges; green, offensive; often with ulceration of mucous membrane.

6. Alimentary disorders; (a) pyorrhea with caries of teeth; roots decay, crowns relatively sound; (b) constipation, stool recedes after partial expulsion; large, hard, black balls; with piles, pain < when sitting; fissures at anus, etc.; (c) diarrhea, sudden, copious, explosive gurgling; < early a.m.

7. Overgrowths of mucous and cutaneous tissue; papillomata, fibromata, condylomata, figwarts, polypi, etc., soft, humid with unpleasant secretion, bleed easily; also styes, tarsal tumors, etc.

8. Skin, looks dirty; nails deformed, brittle; hair falls out or splits; eruptions only on covered parts. Sweats only on uncovered parts or all over except head (rev. Silicea); while asleep, stops on waking (rev. Sambuccus); sweats at all the orifices (Nitricum acidum). Pustular eruptions.

9. Left-sided ovaritis especially chronic; < during menstrual period, must lie down; periods usually premature, scanty.

10. Modalities: < damp, especially cold, damp air, bathing, etc.; < heat of bed; sometimes prefers cold to heat; < morning and continues throughout the day; or after 3 a.m. and 3 p.m.; narcotics.

Note: Use with care during pregnancy as it tends to produce abortion.