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DRUG NAME:THUJA OCCIDENTALIS

A PROJCECT ON MATERIA MEDICA

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THUJA OCCIDENTALIS

COMMON NAME:ARBOR VITAE,CEDAR WHITE,TREE OF LIFE.FAMILY:CONIFERAEPROVER:HAHNEMANN.PREPARATION:TINCTURES OF FRESH TWIGS.

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CLINICALS

HEADACHECONVULSIONEPILEPSYCHOREA

ABORTIONGLEETGONORRHOEAHAEMORRHOIDSPROSTATIC DISORDERSURINARY AFFECTION

BAD EFFECTS OF VACCINATIONRHEUMATISM

WARTSCONDYLOMATAPOLPUSEYE BLISTERS

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SPHERE OF ACTION

BRAIN

GASTRO-INTESTINAL SYSTEM

GENITO URINARY SYSTEM

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CONSTITUTION

HYDROGENOID CONSTITUTION

ALL THE COMPLAINTS OFPATIENT GET < FROM WATER,DAMP,RAIN.

PATIENT IS FLESHY HAVING UNDUE GROWTHS ALL OVER THE BODY.

SLUGGISHATTITUDE

DARK HAIR,DARK COMPLEXION,OILY,UNHEALTHY SKIN WITH BROWN SPOTS.

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TEM

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TSLUGGISH TEMPRAMENT,LYMPHATIC.

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THERMAL REACTION:CHILLY PATIENT

MIASM:SYCOTIC

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GUIDING SYMPTOMS

LEFT SIDEDDRUG

FIG WARTSCONDYLOMATA

BAD EFFECTS OFVACCINATION

SWEAT ON UNCOVERED PARTS OR SPCL.ON HEAT DURING NIGHT.SWEAT STOPS WHEN HE AWAKES.

Fatty food

Desire:

Cold food anddrinks

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MENTAL GENERALS

HURRIED,IMPATIENT

FEELS AS IF STRANGE PERSON AT HIS SIDE.

UNDER CONTROL OF SUPERHUMAN.

INSANE WOMEN DO NOT LIKE TO BE TOUCH.

SOUL AND BODY GETSEPARATED.

MENTAL GENERAL

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MENTAL GENERALS

DREAM:OF DEADPEOPLE.

DREAM:FALLINGFROM HEIGHT.

MUSIC IS UNBEARABLE.SLOW IN ACTION.

INSOMNIAQUARRELSOME

FEELS AS IF SOMETHING ALIVE IN ABDOMEN.LIMBS ARE MADE UP OFGLASS AND WOOD.

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AILMENTS FROM: TEA

TOBACCO

SUNSTROKEFATTY FOOD

COFFEE

MALTREATED GONORRHOEA

ONION

BAD EFFECTS ON VACCINATION.

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HEAD Sx:-Headache:caused by sunstroke,overeating’Sexual excess,tobacco,tea,coffee,syphilitic.LOCATION:LEFT TEMPLE & LEFT PAREITAL AREA.SENSATION:AS IF PIERCED BY NAIL.<by sexual excess,tea coffee>open air,looking up and turning the head upwards.CONCOMITANT:vertigo on closing the eyes.

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EYES Sx:BLISTERS

INFLAMMATION OF EYE

OPHTHALMIA NEONATORUM

SYPHILITIC IRITIS

MUCOPURULENTDISCHAGE.

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EAR Sx:

POLYPI,CONDYLOMATA .see diag. 1

Ch. Otitis media exuding profuse,purulent,acrid,offensive discharge.

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TEETH Sx:

Tooth decay at root,but crown remain sound.Teeth crumble and turn yellow.Toothache<by TEA.ACC TO BONNINGHAUSEN: ON BLOWING THE NOSE A PRESSING PAIN IS FELT IN THE TOOTH OR AT THE SIDE OF IT.

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NOSE Sx:

CHRONIC CATARRH AFTER EXANTHEMA.

DRY,ULCERATED NASAL CAVITYOZEANA.

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GIT Sx:

•Throat:large tenacious mucus which patient hawks with difficulty.

•Abdomen:sesation as if animal was crying in the abdomen or something alive in abdomen.flatulance & distension of stomach ,rumbling colic.

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Ovarian Sx:

•Burning sensation while walking or riding,>must lie down.

•Left ovary is inflamed.

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Diarrhoea :•causation:vaccination,tea,coffee,onion.•Nature of

stool:debilitating ,profuse,pale,yellow,watery,oily bloody.

•During stool:distention forcibly dischrge as if water passes thru a bunghole,+colickypain.

•Desire:coldfood,drinks.•<morning after

breakfast,vaccination,onion,tea.•Concomitants:anus is fissured.

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Constipation:

•Chronic constipation.•When stool partly goes back after being

partly expel.•Piles are painful ,bluish.

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Skin complaints:Nail deformed.

Brownish-white spot.

blisters

Fig warts

Scaly scalp

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GENERAL MODALITY:

AGGRAVATION:NIGHT,COLD WATER,TOBACCO,VACCINATION,TEA,COFFEE,DAMP,FATTY FOOD.

AMELIORATION:OPEN AIR,WARMTH,BY MOVEMENT,PRESSURE,RUBBING,SCRATCHING.

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RELATIONS:

COMPLEMENTARY-MEDORRHINUM,SABINA,SILICEA.

COMPARE:CANN-s, STAPH.

FOLLOWS WELL:MEDORRHINUM,MERC-SOL,NITRIC ACID.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY:

1.PHOTOGRAPHS-WWW.GOOGLE.COM

2.CONTENTS:HOMOEOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA-BOERICKELECTURES ON MATERIA MEDICA.KEY NOTESON MATERIA MEDICA-ALLEN’S.

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