Synonyms
American arborvitae,
Tree of life, Eastern white cedar, Northern white cedar, Swamp cedar.
Constituents
Tree. Height 4 to 40
meters. Leaves have pineapple like smell. Leaves contain resin,
monoterpenes, phytoestrogen, thujin, thujone, limonene, pinene, myrcene,
fenchone, ketone, aromatic and irritating volatile oil, camphor, and vitamin C. Astringent and bitter.
Therapeutics
This is medicine
for hypertension.
It has anti
-pyretic, diaphoretic, anti -helminthic, anti-microbial, anti-viral,
anti-bacterial, anti-cancer, anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidant activities.
It is
medicine for epilepsy.
It is
medicine externally for mood disorder like selfishness.
It has
oestrogenic, anaphrodisiac, and abortifacient
activities.
It is medicine for prostatitis,
and prostatic hypertrophy.
It is medicine for
amenorrhea.
It is medicine for post
renal arthritis.
It is medicine externally
for epithelioma, papilloma, warty granulation, fistulous openings,
condylomata, venereal warts, moles, urethral carbuncle, nasal polyp, scrotal
molluscum fibrosum, rheumatism, ringworm, alopecia areata, and offensive wound.
It is remedy
for warts, polyp, melanoma, tumor, and neoplasm (Sanguinaria, Chelidonium, Colchicum, Podophyllum,
Hydrastis, Trifolium pratense, Taxus baccata, Curcuma longa, Cinnamon, Thymus,
Gallium aparine, Viscum album, Taraxacum, Senecio aureus, Symphytum, Salvia,
Allium sativa, Arsenic album).
It is
remedy for hypotension, and stroke.
It is remedy
for anxiety, insomnia, fixed ideas,
sacrifice, and delusion of supra natural capabilities.
It is remedy
for endogenous silent insanity.
It is remedy
for bronchitis (Inhalation).
It is remedy
for ice pick type headache, and radiation sickness.
It is remedy
for dry cold, and dry cough (Camphor, Sambucus).
It is remedy
for renal insufficiency (Camphor).
It is remedy
for enuresis, and spermatorrhoea.
It is remedy
for incontinence of urine, and bladder paralysis in old age (Ephedra, Muriatic
acid).
It is remedy
for flabby muscles, and paralysis (Trigonella).
It is remedy
for scurvy (Citrus limonum).
It is
immune promoting remedy (Sulphur, Helleborus, Gelsemium).
It is great Hahnemann
anti -miasmatic remedy for sycosis (Jealousy, warts, life style disorders,
modern miasm).
Its wood
powder had been used as food preservative.
Its smoke had been used
to eradicate ticks.
Leaves has
power to kill flies. Leaves had been used as
snake repellent (Thuja, Camphor, Myrrha and styrax are the antidote
of Boswellia sacra).
Mother
tincture is contraindicated orally as it contains neurotoxin and mucus membrane
irritant.
It was
Druid’s panacea (Viscum album, Lycopodium, Verbena).
Plant had
been used for embalming dead body (Camphor), making torch, flute, and incense.
It was
added with animal sacrifice to get aromatic smell.
Word “thuo”
means to sacrifice.
Dose
1 to 4
drops.
Dilution.