But these continuous fixed ideas: Thuja. Also people who always have to wash their hands. We had all these cases, you are fighting with those cases, and you prescribe Arsenicum, because they have to be clean and things like that, and in the Repertory there is the rubric "washing hands": Syphilinum and an addition of Sulphur, but the first remedy you have to think of is Thuja. She also has some fixed ideas and we will try to find out what there is in reality, what she feels and why
There are people who say, "I have to touch this twice
and then I can go away; I have to move three steps forward and one backward and
then I can go forward again." The first remedy you have to think of in this kind of
obligatory actions is Thuja
P: Yes, it is good, but it has to be done. I think, I have two lives, an internal and an external life.
Which remedy is this? Thuja. "I think I have two lives, an internal and an
external", a kind of dissociation - Anacardium.
Yes, very good, but do you feel that she has been suppressed? No, there is no
reason for her to be Anacardium. To be Anacardium there has to be a reason. Anacardium
has to be suppressed with enormous lack of self-confidence and a very strong
hatred feeling. They have no heart, but a heart of stone
Here you can never prescribe Anacardium, because she does not have this hatred we expect in Anacardium. Another possibility was Thuja, but we need other symptoms for Thuja. We need symptoms to be sure. Dreams about falling, nightmares while sleeping on the left side, these would be indications for Thuja
EXTREMITIES, pain, tendon, expansion of: Agar, thuj
And the pain is usually in the middle of the Achilles tendon in a small spot.
There is the second reason why you often find Thuja in bicyclers. Which?
They tremble from
music. You find this in the rubric on page 1214: EXTREMITIES, trembling, foot, music, from: Thuj
When they are very close to the finish, they look behind once again, they are blowing their nose - you know that Thuja always has these dry, yellow crusts in the nose - and when the music is playing at the finish they start trembling and ride faster and faster. This is Thuja - no, this is not Thuja, this was only a joke.
All right. But important information for the practice is that Thuja has pain on extending. You find these contractions also in Causticum, the contractions after burns, in Dupuytren's contracture and so on. But in Thuja the pain is only in one small spot and normally on the left side.