Thuja occidentalis - Arbor vitae, white cedar
"CONSTITUENT: Colorless volatile oil, soluble in alcohol, with a sp. gr. 0.92, and a yellow, crystallizable, bitter principle called thujin, punitannic (Kowalier) and thujetic acid.
PREPARATIONS: Extract non-alcoholic, Fluid Extract Arbor Vitae, not miscible with water. Dose: from one-fourth to one dram. Specific Medicine Thuja. Dose: from one to ten drops.
Therapy: It has been used extensively by all physicians in the treatment of cancer. It is claimed to exercise an abortive influence over incipient cancer, and to retard the progress of more advanced cases. In extreme cases it will remove the fetor, retard the growth, and materially prolong the life of the patient. It should be given internally and the dosage increased to the extreme limit. It should also be kept in contact with the parts externally or injected into the structures. Epithelioma, condylomata, and all simple cancerous growths should be treated with it. ...
Thuja is directly indicated, first, as a peculiar alterative, in improving diathetic conditions of the blood. Again, it acts directly upon abnormal growths-perversions, such as peculiar conditions of the cell structure of the skin, and other external structures. It is thus indicated in all abnormal growths of the skin or mucous membranes. It exercises a specific influence upon catarrhal discharges, correcting the glandular faults that are to blame for such a condition wherever they may be. It is specific to urinary irritation in aged people especially; also in childhood. It strengthens the sphincter of the bladder....
In a bad case of polyuria with great sensation of debility and weakness of the entire sexual apparatus and some loss of sexual strength, a man of 65 was given five drops of thuja every two hours with complete success. ...
(Finley Ellingwood: The American Materia Medica, Therapeutics and Pharmacognosy, 1915)"