American Materia Medica, Therapeutics and Pharmacognosy

distress. The case was cured in a few weeks.
Another physician advised the agent in pruritus, whether of the anus or
vulva, especially when accompanied by fissures. He uses it in warts,
tumors and excrescences. He uses it for chapped and rough hands, so
troublesome in the spring and fall.
Another physician reports a case of extreme prolapsus of the bowel in a
child which he cured with a five per cent solution of thuja. A wet dressing
was applied and a small quantity of the remedy was injected into the
bowel. A greatly enlarged and relaxed uterus in a woman of fifty with
severe metrorrhagia was treated with injections of thuja. The remedy
should be diluted in these cases.
A doctor reports the cure of a urinary fistula by giving two drops of thuja
internally every four hours.
The use of the oil of thuja in confluent smallpox given internally and
applied externally was advised by Dr. Busbee who had an extensive and
successful experience with it in these cases.
Thuja applied to the tonsils and crowded into the crypts is an excellent
remedy. I am using it in syphilitic throat ulcerations and if I precede it
once or twice with an application of Monsel's solution it has proved
invariably satisfactory so far.
Thuja will prove an excellent remedy for all forms of sore mouth,
especially if combined with echinacea and a mild antiseptic astringent.
Dr. Gibbs reports a case where a number of varicose enlargements about
the ankle of an old washer woman broke down. He made a 50 per cent
solution of thuja and applied it freely with bandages, covering the whole
with roller bandages, and produced a cure.
TRIFOLIUM. Trifolium pratense.
Synonym—Red clover.
CONSTITUENTS—Not analyzed.
PREPARATIONS—
Specific Trifolium. Dose, from one to sixty minims.
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