Common names: Arbor vitae; (G.), Lebensbaum.
Introduction.
Thuja occidentalis, L.
Natural order: Coniferae. Preparation: Tincture of the green twigs.
Mind
Emotional. 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 fancies that she had 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. 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. 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. 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. She constantly longs for the offices of the church in order to banish her sinful thoughts of suicide. At night, while 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. 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, over-stepping all bounds and becoming a joyful, dizzy intoxication, with entire extinction of reason. He often dreamed in a clear day, with open eyes without being asleep, for an hour at a time; in this he especially revelled 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.
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). Distraction of mind. Distracted in mind, unsteady, and inclined to do now this, now that (after six hours). The child is excessively obstinate; on the slightest contradiction throws itself to the ground in rage and loses its breath. Passionate in unexpected attacks. Very much excited; at one time cried, and another laughed. Causelessly excited and inclined to be angry; contrary to all his previous habits (fifty- fourth day). Uneasiness of mind for many days, everything seems burdensome and distressing. 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). Inclined to talk (after sixteen hours). Spasmodic laughing and weeping at the same time. Mood especially cheerful (Thirty-eighth day). Good humor without gayety (after seven hours). (* Curative reaction.- HAHNEMANN. *) Good humor (after fifteen hours). Spirits excited, lively and loquacious (effect of the alcohol?). During the febrile symptoms his mind is quiet, and he is well disposed (after three hours and half). Weeping mood (fourth day). Violent spasmodic weeping in the evening, changing to febrile coldness, which lasted all night. Spasmodic weeping, with hiccough and twitching of the hands and feet. Constant weeping mood, with anxious oppression. While talking, she is unable to go in spite of every effort; she begins to weep bitterly, and says she can no longer think or live. Weeping and trembling of the feet during music. Sad mood (seventh day). Sad mood and discouragement (thirteenth day). She has constantly very sad thoughts about the merest trifles, in which she stares in front of her and picks her nails. Very gloomy mood, in the afternoon (ninth day). Gloomy, melancholy state of mind; came on in the afternoon, which was still apparent on waking next morning (after second dose, second day). Very gloomy frame of mind, before going to sleep (seventy- third day). Exceedingly out of tune; sad, and disposed to weep (twenty-fourth day). Mood very unhappy, despairing. Melancholy in the forenoon, more cheerful in the afternoon; this alternation has manifested itself for some days past (thirty-second day).
Extreme melancholy (fifth day). Depressed in body and mind (twenty-first day). Very low spirited (twenty-second day). Very depressed, sad, irritable mood. 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). Cannot endure soft, tender music without tensive spasm of the heart. Remarkable indifference to the opposite sex. Aversion to all company, in a young girl usually full of life. Discontentment. Despondency frequently occasioning a sobbing weeping. Loathing of life.
Apprehensive (thirty-ninth day). Apprehension of becoming sick (ninth day). Continual thoughts of dying, with increasing weakness. Presentiment of death. Anxiety (after ninth day). 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 (sixth night). Averse to everything; anxious and solicitous about the future. Anxiety, with intolerable aching in the chest, even to spasmodic weeping and screaming, recurring daily, at 4 to 5 P.M. (second week).
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). Anxiety, with internal trembling, confusion of the head, and difficult speech, alternating with spasmodic laughing (ninth month).
Anxious, lachrymose despondency. Sudden unaccountable anxiety in the head, which, against her will, compels her to call some one.
Very anxious thoughts, with heat of the head and anxiety about the heart, driving out of bed and house. Constantly tormented by groundless anxiety. Great and constant anxiety without cause.
Anxious and without though, she went about as in a whirl, with heaviness of the head and limbs. Constant anxiety, as if he had committed a great crime, with forgetfulness and general trembling, even to disturbing sleep. Frightful anxiety at night, so that she cried aloud from internal distress. Constant great despair changes at last to complete indifference.
Increasing despair which allows rest nowhere, seemed to be intolerable day and night. Dread that she would be attacked with apoplexy, with confused tremulousness and anxious perspiration.
Very much frightened, to trembling of the whole body. Ill-humor (after twelve months), (fifth day). Ill-humor, with dulness 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. Exceedingly ill-humored, speaks but little (twenty-ninth day). Impatient ill-humor. Very ill- humored and depressed. Very ill-humored and excited, with death constantly before her eyes. Peevishness (fifth day); (thirty- first day). Great irritability (after one year). Irritable humor, in the afternoon (twenty-sixth day). Very peevish and passionate, always in renewed paroxysms. Fretful if everything does not go according to his wishes. Excited mood; he is irritable, especially if anyone says anything of which he does not exactly approve (after thirty days). Morose, quarrels about a harmless joke. Vexations, mostly in the morning. Constantly irritated and vexed at everything. Great indifference, changing to weeping. Very changeable moods. Intellectual. A delightful feeling of corporeal well-being and inclination to intellectual labor, in the afternoon (twenty-eighth day). Aversion to all work. Indisposition to any kind of intellectual labor (sixty- sixth day). Intellectual exercise soon fatigues, in the evening (twenty-first day). Excessive thoughtfulness about the merest trifle. The power of thought was increased, but rather for analytical synthetical reasoning (sixty-fifth day). Unfitted for every work on account of a confused whirling of thoughts in the head. Mind affected; he cannot get rid of a thought he has just had. Thought is very irksome. The boy speaks with excessive haste, frequently jumping over words and syllables, however without stammering. Speaks very slowly and monosyllabically (twenty-seventh day). Collects his thoughts and speaks slowly; he seeks for words while talking (after third day). Clear, connected thought, when writing a letter, becomes more and more difficult, till possible. In thought, she often misses words; on the other hand, it often happens that a great many little insignificant words interpolate themselves, as if voluntarily tumbling in between the others. 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.
Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.