Ruta Graveolens ruta.

Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica

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Region

Fibrous tissues: EYES. Flexor tendons. Joints. Wrists and ankles. Back (lumbar). Cartilages. Periosteum. Uterus. Skin.

Worse

Over - exertion: EYE-STRAIN. Injury. Sprains. COLD: Air. Wind. Damp. Wet. LYING. SITTING. Pressure on an edge.

Better

Lying on back. Warmth. Motion.

General

BRUISED, SORE ACHING AND RESTLESSNESS. Painful weariness. Heaviness; as of a weight in forehead or hanging to feet; of lower limbs. As of a rough, blunt plug in part; head, nose, etc. Nodes. Paralytic rigidity. Distortions. Rheumatism. Gnawing - burning. Neuralgia.

Particulars

Dissatisfied. Fretful. Itching inner canthi. Eyes burn. Lachrymation. Dim vision. Woody taste. Swelled spleen. Urging to stool, but only rectum prolapses; < after labor, stooping, etc. Corrosive leucorrhœa. Weak, bruised feeling in small of back, hips or lower limbs in A.M. Nodes in palms. Stumbles easily. Lumbago. Deep pains. Thighs feel broken. Pains as if deep in long bones; must walk about. Bursæ. Erosive itching. Chafing. Flat warts. Contractions. Brittle bones. Cracking joints, < walking in open air. Ganglion. Glowing heat of face, skin, etc.

Related

Complementary: Calc - p. Related: Arn. Phyt. Ran-sc. Symp.

Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica

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Keynote

Scrofulous exostosis; bruises and other mechanical injuries of bones and periosteum; sprains; periostits; erysipelas; fractures, and especially dislocations (Symph.). Bruised lame sensatoin all over, as after a fall or blow; worse in limbs and joints (Arn.). All parts of the body upon which he lies are painful, as if bruised (Bap., Pyr.). Restless, turns and changes position frequently when lying (Rhus). Lameness after sprains, especially of wrists and ankles (chronic sprains, Bov., Stron.). Phthisis after mechanical injuries to chest (Mill.). Aching in and over eyes, with blurred vision, as if they had been strained. After using eyes at fine work, watchmaking, engraving (Nat. m.); looking intently (Sen.). Amblyopia or asthenopia from over-exertion of eyes or anamolies of refraction; from over-use in bad light; fine sewing, over-reading at night; misty, dim vision, with complete obscuration at a distance. Eyes burn, ache, feel strained; hot, like balls of fire; spasms of lower lids. Constipation; from inactivity, or impaction following mechanical injuries (Arn.). Prolapse of rectum, immediately on attempting a passage; from the slightest stooping; after confinement; frequent unsuccessful urging. Pressure on the bladder as if constantly full; continues after urinating; could hardly retain urine on account of urging, yet if not attended to it was difficult afterwards to void it; scanty green urine; involuntary. Warts; with sore pains; flat, smooth on palms of hands (Nat. c., Nat. m. - on back of hands, Dul.). Backache, relieved by lying on the back.

Relations

Compare: Arn., Arg. n., Con., Euphr., Phyt., Rhus, Symph. After Arnica, it hastens the curative process in the joints; after Symphytum, in injuries to bones.

Key-Notes to the Materia Medica

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General

We are led to use this remedy for injuries of the periosteum, as when one has a fall or an accident which injures the periosteum, making it very sore and causing a bruised sensation.

When the rectum protrudes from the anus after confinement; prolapsus ani, which may come down every time the bowels are moved. Pain as if bruised in the outer parts and in the bones; painfulness of the bones in general; wounds where the bones are injured; gnawing in the inner parts.

Affections in general of the left side of the head; of the bladder; wrist joints; lumbar region; bones of the lower extremity.

Worse

While lying on the painful side; looking fixedly at an object, as in cases of those who have looked closely at watch-making, fine sewing, etc.; from taking uncooked food.

Remedies following

Calc. carb., Caustic., Lycop., Phosph. ac., Pulsat., Sepia, Sulphur.

Antidote

Camphor.

Seven Hundred Red Line Symptoms from Materia Medica

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Red line symptom

Eyes burn, ache, feel strained and fatigued as after reading too long, from fine sewing, too much reading, or otherwise overtaxing them; worse using them in the evening. Bruised feeling all over, as from a fall or a blow, worse in limbs and joints.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Rue-bitterwort

General

Acts upon the periosteum and cartilages, eyes and uterus. Complaints from straining flexor tendons especially. Tendency to the formation of deposits in the periosteum, tendons, and about joints, especially wrist. Overstrain of ocular muscles. All parts of the body are painful, as if bruised. Sprains (after Arnica). Lameness after sprains. Jaundice. Feeling of intense lassitude, weakness and despair. Injured "bruised" bones.

Head

Pain as from a nail; after excessive intoxicating drinks. Periosteum sore. Epistaxis.

Eyes

Eyes-strain followed by headache. Eyes red, hot, and painful from sewing or reading fine print (Nat mur; Arg nit). Disturbances of accommodation. Weary pain while reading. Pressure deep in orbits. Tarsal cartilage feels bruised. Pressure over eyebrow. Asthenopia.

Stomach

Gastralgia of aching, gnawing character.

Urinary

Pressure in neck of bladder after urinating; painful closure (Apis). Constant urging to urinate, feels bladder full.

Rectum

Difficult feces, evacuated only with straining. Constipation, alternating with mucous, frothy stools; discharge of blood with stool. When sitting, tearing stitches in rectum. Carcinoma affecting lower bowel. Prolapsus ani every time the bowels move, after confinement. Frequent, unsuccessful urging to stool. Protrusion of rectum when stooping.

Respiratory

Cough with copious, thick, yellow expectoration; chest feels weak. Painful spot on sternum; short breath with tightness of chest.

Back

Pain in nape, back and loins. Backache better pressure and lying on back. Lumbago worse morning before rising.

Extremities

Spine and limbs feel bruised. Small of back and loins pain. Legs give out on rising from a chair, hips and thighs so weak (Phos; Con). Contraction of fingers. Pain and stiffness in wrists and hands. Ganglia (Benzoic ac). Sciatica; worse, lying down at night; pain from back down hips and thighs. Hamstrings feel shortened (Graph). Tendons sore. Aching pain in tendo-Achilles. Thighs pain when stretching the limbs. Pain in bones of feet and ankles. Great restlessness.

Modalities

Worse, lying down, from cold, wet weather.

Relationship

Compare: Ratanhia; Carduus. Rectal (irritation); Jaborandi; Phyt; Rhus; Sil; Arn.

Antidote: Camph.

Complementary: Calc phos.

Dose

First to sixth potency. Locally, the tincture for ganglia and as a lotion for the eyes.

Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics

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Leaders

This remedy which has already been mentioned as to its prominent action in the periosteum, especially in injuries and effects therefrom, also, like Arnica, has a "bruised, lame sensation all over as after a fall; worse in limbs and joints," and also "all parts of the body upon which he lies are painful, as if bruised." Like Rhus tox., the Ruta patient wants to change position frequently. The pains and lameness of Ruta seem to have a particular liking for the wrists. Here also must Eupat. perf. be remembered.

These pains in the wrists of Ruta are, like Rhus toxicod., < in cold, wet weather, and > on motion. There is no remedy oftener useful for eye-strain from close study, sewing, etc., than Ruta. The eyes feel weary and ache as if strained, or they burn like balls of fire. Two other remedies must be remembered for eye-strain, viz.: Natrum muriaticum and Senega. An understanding of these three remedies may save many cases of asthenopia or weakness of accommodation from the abuse of spectacles. Ruta is also one of our best remedies for prolapsus of the rectum.

Ignatia stands closest here. Both are < on stooping, lifting, or at stool. Muriatic acid and Podophyllum should also be remembered; with the former the prolapsed organ is very sore and sensitive to the least touch, even of the sheet on which he lies, and the rectum comes down even when urinating (Aloe). The prolapse of Podophyllum is almost always accompanied by the characteristic diarrhea, but may be the result of strain by lifting, when the uterus may also prolapse. These uses of Ruta make it a very valuable remedy.

Text Book of Materia Medica

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Mind and Disposition

Melancholy disposition towards evening. Anxious and low-spirited, with mental dejection. Inclination to quarrel and contradict.

Head

Giddiness ; in the morning when rising ; when sitting, and when walking in the open air. Great heat in the head, with much restlessness. Headache as if a nail were driven into the head. Headache after excessive use of intoxicating drinks. Ulcers and scabs on the scalp. The head is externally painful, as if bruised or beaten. Pain in the periosteum of the cranium as from a fall. Large painful swellings on the scalp, as if originating in the periosteum, the place pained previously (tearing), and felt sore to the touch. Biting, itching (ulcers) on the scalp. Humid scabs on the head, with scald-head.

Eyes

Spasms of the (lower) eyelids. Watering eyes, they are full of tears in the open air, not in the room. Heat in the eyes in the evening when reading with candlelight. Spots on the cornea. Pains in the eyes as if they had been strained too much. Obscureness of sight from reading too much, with clouds, or like a veil before the eyes. A green halo appears around the light in the evening. Bad effects of overstraining the eyes, from reading too much, from sewing, especially fine work at night.

Ears

Pain as if bruised in the cartilages of the ear.

Nose

Bleeding of the nose, with pressure at the root of the nose. Perspiration on the dorsum of the nose.

Face

Erysipelas and swelling on the forehead. Pains in the face as from contusion in the periosteum of the facial bones.

Mouth and Throat

Pain in the lower teeth. Gums painful, and bleed readily. The lips are dry and sticky. Sensation as from a lump in the throat on empty deglutition. Spasm of the tongue, with difficulty of speech.

Stomach and Abdomen

Violent thirst in the afternoon. Sudden nausea while eating, and vomiting of food. Colic, with burning or gnawing pain. Gnawing, pressing pain in the region of the liver. Gnawing sensation in the stomach, as from emptiness or hunger. Painful swelling of the spleen. Colic in children from worms. Gnawing and eating pain about the navel.

Stool and Anus

Soft stool, which is discharged with difficulty from inactivity of the rectum. Constipation, alternating with mucous, frothy stools. Frequent urging to stool, with small, soft discharges. Frequent unsuccessful urging, with prolapsus ani. Prolapsus ani with every (soft or hard) stool.

Urinary Organs

Frequent pressure to urinate, with scanty discharges of green urine. Pressure on the bladder, as if continually full ; the pressure to urinate continues after micturition. Frequent micturition at night. Involuntary micturition at night in bed, and during the day when walking.

Sexual Organs

Women. Menstruation irregular, followed by leucorrhœa.

Respiratory Organs

Dyspnœa, with anxiety from stitches in the chest. Sensation of coldness or heat in the chest. Corrosive leucorrhœa after the menstruation has ceased. Corrosive eating or gnawing in the chest. Sensation in the larynx as from a bruise. On the sternum painful spot, which is painful to pressure. Violent cough, with expectoration of tough mucus and nausea. Cough, with copious expectoration of thick yellow mucus. Expectoration of thick yellow mucus, almost without cough, with sensation of weakness in the chest. Phthisic after mechanical injuries of the chest.

Back and Neck

Pain in the back and on the os sacrum, as if bruised. Stitches in the small of the back when sitting, walking or stooping, relieved by pressure and when lying down.

Extremities

Upper. Lameness and stiffness of the wrist after a sprain, worse in cold wet weather. Sensation as from a sprain, and stiffness in the wrist. Numbness and tingling in the hands after exercise. Lower. Lameness and pains in the ankles after a sprain. Sensation as if the tendons under the knee were shortened, and weakness in them, especially on descending. Fistulous ulcers on the lower legs.

Generalities

Sensation of soreness or as from a contusion, bruise or fall or from a blow, especially in the limbs and joints. Sensation of soreness of the parts on which one lies. Lameness after sprains, especially the wrists and ankles. Worm complaints of children. Pulse only accelerated during the heat. Internal chilliness and shaking even near the warm stove. Coldness running over one side of the head. Chilliness principally in the back, and running up and down. Chilliness with heat in the face, and violent thirst. Heat over the whole body, mostly in the afternoon, without thirst, but with anxiety, restlessness and dyspnœa. Heat in the face, with red cheeks, and cold hands and feet. Frequent attacks of flushes of heat. Cold perspiration on the face in the morning in bed. Perspiration all over when walking in the open air.

Skin

The skin becomes easily chafed from walking and riding, also in children. Inflammation of the ulcers. Pain in the long bones as if they were broken. Bruises and other mechanical injuries of the bones and the periosteum. Dropsy ; warts, with sore pains.

Conditions

The pains in the limbs are aggravated during rest and cold wet weather, and principally while sitting, and are ameliorated by motion.

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

John Henry Clarke · A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica · 1st edition (1900-02, three volumes); homeoint.org / Médi-T HTML digitization

General

Ruta graveolens. Rue. N. O. Rutaceæ. Tincture of whole fresh plant.

Clinical

Amblyopia . Anus, prolapse of. Bone, bruised; pains in. Bruises . Bursitis. Cartilages, bruises of; pains in. Chest, sternum, pains in . Constipation. Dislocations. Dyspepsia. Enuresis. Epistaxis. Exostosis. Eyes, sight weak ; pains in. Facial, paralysis, from cold. Fevers. Fractures. Ganglion . Hæmorrhages. Hands, pains in . Paralysis. Perichondritis . Periostitis. Rectum, affections of; prolapse of. Restlessness. Rheumatism Sciatica . Spleen, affections of. Sprain . Stammering. Tongue, cramp in; swelling of. Urination, difficulty of. Varicocele. Veins, swollen; varicose. Warts.

Characteristics

The common Rue of our gardens is a native of Southern Europe. It was formerly in great repute in medicine; epilepsy, hysteria, hydrophobia, weakness of sight (from excessive reading), ozæna, epistaxis, foul gumboils, flatulent colic (in hysteric females), inertia of the bowels, having been cured with it empirically (Teste). It was also supposed to be a kind of universal antidote: "Even in our own time the Roman ladies imagine that the most odoriferous flowers may be left in their rooms without the least danger provided a bush of garden rue be amongst them" (Teste). Practitioners (says Treas. of Bot .) have perhaps been deterred from employing it by the symptoms of acrido-narcotic poisoning induced by an overdose. Locally applied Rue is a powerful irritant, and one species, Ruta montana , is dangerous to handle even with gloves. Ruta is "useful in feverish complaints, promotes perspiration and removes noxious material; in headache, nervous and hysteric complaints, weakness of the stomach and pains in the bowels, suppressed menses, and if taken for a long time it benefits epilepsy. The expressed juice benefits nightmare" (Green's Herbal ). In large doses it causes violent gastric pains, excessive and sometimes bloody vomiting, profuse salivation and swelling of the tongue, great prostration, confusion of mind, and convulsive twitchings, with, in pregnant women, abortion (M. Hélie). In olden times it was used to ward off plague, and is at the present day the great remedy for pip or roup in fowls: a disease which affects the throat and causes chokiness and turns the comb of the fowl black; it is due to impure water and is contagious. "It certainly acts strongly on deposits of scirrhous material in both the breasts and in the vagina and sometimes lessens the size of these" (Cooper). Hahnemann's proving shows how largely the old uses were founded on a homœopathic relationship. The vulnerary remedies indicate in symptoms of their provings the peculiar form of injuries for which they are adapted; there are the sprained pains of Rhus , the bruised pains (in skin and muscles) of Arn.; Ruta also has bruised pains, but these are more particularly manifested in bones. Ruta is one of the chief remedies for injured bones, and especially bruised bones. This power of Ruta does not appear to have been known before the provings were made. But impaired sight due to straining the eyes was an old use of the remedy; and here are symptoms from the provings His eyes feel as if he had strained the sight too much by reading; Weak, pressive-like pain in right eye, with dimness of surrounding objects, as if from having looked too long at an object that was fatiguing to the eyes;" "A feeling of heat and burning in the eyes, and pain in them when he reads (in the evening and by candle-light)." Each of these symptoms was experienced by a separate prover. Another effect of bruising is seen in prolapse of the rectum after confinement . But Ruta has, independently of this, a powerful action on the rectum, and caused prolapse in the provers and many severe symptoms. Tearing stitches in rectum when sitting. The prolapse is < by stooping, and especially by crouching together; it comes on immediately on attempting a passage. Rushmore ( H. P ., x. 516) cured with one dose of Ruta 900 (Fincke) a case of prolapse preceding a very difficult stool . ─ Tearing in rectum and urethra while urinating. Constipation; from inactivity of rectum or impaction of fæces following mechanical injuries. A curious clinical symptom is a sensation of nausea located in the rectum. Among the general symptoms are: Great weakness after a short walk; limbs feel bruised; small of back and loins painful. Tottering as if thighs were weak; limbs pain when walking. Does not know where to lay his legs on account of uneasiness and heaviness; lies now in one place, now in another, and turns from side to side. All parts of the body on which he lies, even in bed, are painful as if bruised. Facial paralysis from catching cold, in robust, sanguine persons. Rheumatic paralysis of wrists and ankles. Ruta is specially suited to robust, sanguineous persons; and corresponds to hæmorrhages from nose (with pressure at root), gums, rectum. Peculiar Sensations are: Pain as if from a fall in periosteum. As if a nail were driven into head. Head as if bruised or beaten. Eyes, as if strained; as if a shadow flitting before them; as after looking too long and intently at an object; as if eyes were balls of fire. As if one were digging about in the ear with a blunt piece of wood. As of a lump in throat. Bladder as if constantly full. Spine as if beaten and lame. Wrists as if sprained. As if pain were in marrow of bone, or as if bone were broken. Thighs as if beaten; as if weak. As if there were an ulcer on ankle. All parts of body bruised at night, feeling as if it were time to rise. Restlessness is a very frequent Concomitant of Ruta conditions. A peculiar symptom is cramp in the tongue with embarrassed speech. A prolonged use of Ruta 3x has cured ganglion in front of left wrist (Oran W. Smith, H. P ., ix. 308). Slow pulse, contracted pupil, salivation and swollen tongue are features of its action. The symptoms are: < By touch. Pressure < sore spot on sternum; > pain below r. scapula, and stitches in small of back. Backache > lying on back. [This is characteristic, and has led to many cures; and the relief of a case of malignant disease of kidneys and bladder (Rushmore, H. P ., x. 516). This is important in connection with a use Cooper has made of Ruta ointment, prepared by extracting the plant in warm vaseline as an application in broken cancer of the breast.] Walking or riding = chafing. Dyspepsia from straining stomach by carrying heavy weights. Scratching > . Rubbing > . Rest < . Motion > . Lying down = parts lain on to be sore; > pain below right scapula; > stitches in small of back. Sitting < . Stooping < . Bending over = fæces to escape. Exertion < . Ascending < . Going up and down stairs = hamstrings to feel shortened and weak. < At night. < Morning. (Vertigo on rising. Rheumatic pain in back < before rising. Sweat in bed.) Warm stove = chilliness. Indoors = yawning and stretching. Open air = vertigo. Cold applications < . Cold wet weather < . < Reading and straining eyes. < During menses.

Relations

Antidoted by: Camph. Antidote to: Merc. Complementary: Calc. ph. in joint affections. Compatible: After Arn. in joint affections; after Symphyt. in bone injuries; Calc., Caust., Lyc., Ph. ac., Puls., Sul., Sul. ac. (diseases of bone). Compare: In diseases of bone, Angust. (also botan.), Conchiol. Restlessness, effects of cold and damp, Rhus. Eye-strain, Nat. m., Onos., Seneg. Prolapse of rectum, Æsc., Bell., Chi. s., Nit. ac., Pod. Pain in back < in morning before rising, Pet. Sore as if bruised in parts lain on, Arn., Bap., Pyro. Constipation after injuries, Arn. Warts on palms, Nat. c., Nat. m. (on backs of hands, Dul.). Chafing. Compare also: Arg. n., Con., Euphras., Lyc., Cham., Sep.

Causation

Bones, injuries of. Bruises. Fractures. Sprains. Carrying heavy weights. Over-exertion of eyes.

Mind

Anxiety, as from a troubled conscience. ─ Disposition to quarrel and to contradict. ─ Unfitness for labour. ─ Cross and suspicious, imagined he was always being deceived. ─ Patient dissatisfied with himself and others, and disposed to weep. ─ Melancholy and moral dejection (towards evening). ─ Slowness of conception. ─ Frequent absence of mind.

Head

Head bewildered, as from too little sleep. ─ Whirling vertigo, which causes falling when rising in morning, also when seated, and when walking in open air. ─ When sitting, sudden vertigo: all turned round him in a circle; thereafter glowing cheeks. ─ Headache as from stunning pressure on whole brain, with great inquietude. ─ Headache as if a nail were driven into head. ─ Headache after excessive use of intoxicating drinks. ─ Throbbing or tearing pain in forehead, with confusion in head, in evening before lying down, and in morning on waking. ─ Heat in head (with much restlessness). ─ Intermittent boring stitches in r. side of forehead. ─ Shooting, drawing pain from frontal to temporal bone: ─ From temporal bones to occiput, in the periosteum, pain as from a fall. ─ (Occipital headache < during menses, with pains in backs of eyes ( < in l. eyeball), with dyspepsia; cannot bear a bright light, eyes tire, ache and prick and turn bloodshot when she uses glasses ─ R. T. C.). ─ Tensive drawing or lancinating pains in exterior of head, as from a blow or contusion, esp. in periosteum. ─ Gnawing itching in scalp. ─ Nodes and abscesses on scalp, with pain as from excoriation when touched, formed after a tearing pain had been felt in the part which they occupy. ─ Biting itching (ulcers) on scalp. ─ Small ulcers and running sores on scalp.

Eyes

Pains in eyes when viewing an object minutely. ─ Itching smarting in canthus. ─ Aching in eyes. ─ Eyes hot like balls of fire; ache; feel strained. ─ Burning sensation in eyes when reading by candle-light. ─ Burning under l. eye. ─ Itching in inner canthi and on lower lids, which becomes smarting after rubbing them, whereupon the eye becomes filled with water. ─ Lachrymation in open air. (not in room). ─ Speck on cornea. ─ Red areola round candle in evening. ─ Quivering and jerking in muscles of eyebrows. ─ Spasms in (lower) lids; the tarsus is drawn hither and thither, and when it ceases water runs from both eyes for an hour and a half. ─ Tendency to stare. ─ Contraction of pupil (Aitken). ─ (Detachment of retina.). ─ Asthenopia. ─ Astigmatism (?). ─ Sight confused, as if directed through a mist, and complete cloudiness at a distance. ─ Obscuration of sight from reading too much, with clouds, or like a veil before eyes. ─ A green halo around the light in evening. ─ Bad effects from over-straining eyes, from reading too much, esp. fine work at night. ─ Dancing spots before eyes.

Ears

Earache with scraping pressure; as if a blunt piece of wood were pushed about in it. ─ Itching lancinations in ear. ─ Pain in cartilage of ear and under mastoid process as from a bruise.

Nose

Acute and hard aching in root of nose. ─ Perspiration on back of nose. ─ Epistaxis with pressure at root of nose.

Face

Pains in face, in periosteum, as if caused by contusion or blows. ─ Spasmodic tearing in cheek-bone. ─ Itching and gnawing at face and on cheeks. ─ Erysipelas in forehead with swelling. ─ Eruption of pimples on lips. ─ Lips dry and sticky. ─ Acne.

Teeth

Toothache with digging pain (in the lower teeth). ─ Painful sensibility and ready bleeding of the gums.

Mouth

Mouth dry and glutinous. ─ Cramp in tongue, with embarrassed speech. ─ Profuse salivation and swelling of tongue (Taylor, Med. Juris ).

Throat

Sore throat, as if a tubercle were in bottom of gullet, during empty deglutition. ─ Sensation as from excoriation and pressure on velum palati when swallowing.

Appetite

Mawkish and dry taste of food, like wood. ─ Violent thirst for cold water in afternoon. ─ Disgust at first mouthful with a sensation of fulness and satiety in abdomen, although the appetite is good. ─ Sudden nausea when eating, with vomiting of food. ─ Pains in stomach after eating bread, or crude and indigestible food.

Stomach

Empty risings or with the taste of food. ─ Hiccough when smoking. ─ Putrid risings after eating meat. ─ Risings like those of hysterical women. ─ Nausea at pit of stomach. ─ Vomiting, even of food. ─ Pains in stomach after having eaten uncooked or indigestible food. ─ Pinchings in stomach after eating bread. ─ Gnawing (sensation as from emptiness or hunger), burning, or pressive pains in stomach. ─ Tearing shootings in epigastrium.

Abdomen

Gnawing pressure in hepatic region. ─ Gnawing and eating pain about navel. ─ Sick feeling in abdomen followed by soft stools. ─ Pulsation and pricking in l. hypochondrium. ─ Painful swelling of spleen. ─ Pain in abdomen as from a bruise, with digging in lumbar region. ─ Pressive pinchings in hypogastrium. ─ Incisive pinchings in sides of abdomen. ─ Shooting pains, which pass into abdomen, when sitting down. ─ Sensation of coldness or of heat, and burning sensation in abdomen. ─ Gnawing in abdomen. ─ Colic with burning or gnawing pain. ─ Colic as from worms (in children). ─ Lancinations in muscles of abdomen, which compel retraction of abdomen.

Stool and Rectum

Difficult fæces, as from inactivity of rectum (or impaction following mechanical injuries), evacuated only with straining. ─ Constipation alternating with mucous, frothy stools. ─ Fæces scanty, hard, knotty, like sheep-dung. ─ Slimy diarrhœa alternately with constipation. ─ (Chronic and obstructed diarrhœa. ─ R. T. C.). ─ Frequent want to evacuate, with scanty but soft evacuations. ─ Ineffectual want to evacuate, with prolapsus recti. ─ Prolapse of rectum immediately on attempting a passage; from slightest stooping; after confinement; frequent unsuccessful urging. ─ Prolapsus recti at every evacuation (whether hard or soft stool). ─ Discharge of blood with stool. ─ When sitting, tearing stitches in rectum. ─ Pruritus ani with smooth appearance of skin round anus. ─ R. T. C.). ─ Tearing in rectum and urethra when not urinating. ─ Nausea felt in rectum.

Urinary Organs

Want to urinate, sometimes very urgent, with pressure on bladder and scanty emission of green urine. ─ Pressure on bladder (as if continually full), sometimes also after emission of urine and at other times. ─ Frequent and profuse emission of urine, even at night. ─ Continued want to urinate, even immediately after an emission. ─ Retention of urine. ─ Involuntary emission of urine at night in bed and by day during movement (walking). ─ Urine charged with gravel.

Male Sexual Organs

Increased sexual desire. ─ Pollutions.

Female Sexual Organs

Sterility. ─ Catamenia very irregular. ─ Symptoms < at menstrual period. ─ Catamenia of too short duration, preceded and followed by leucorrhœa. ─ Corrosive leucorrhœa after the catamenia. ─ (Pruritus pudendi. ─ Vaginal pruritus with irritation of skin elsewhere. ─ Pruritus vulvæ, very severe, affecting external lips, which are swollen, began in vagina with pain under l. breast and dimness of sight. ─ R. T. C.). ─ Metrorrhagia as a forerunner of miscarriage. ─ Bearing-down pains. ─ Miscarriage; at seven months. ─ Lameness and soreness all over; with feeble contractions during labour.

Respiratory Organs

Bruised pain in larynx. ─ Cough in evening after lying down, with copious expectoration of viscid mucus, and heaving as if about to vomit. ─ Croaking cough at night with scraping in chest. ─ Cough, with copious expectoration of purulent matter. ─ Expectoration of thick, yellowish mucus, almost without cough, but with a sensation of fatigue in chest. ─ Wakened about midnight with a choking cough.

Chest

Breath very short, with dyspnœa. ─ Aching at chest with sensation of fulness. ─ Nocturnal compression in lower part of chest. ─ Lancinations in chest, often with suspended respiration, principally when going up stairs. ─ Sensation of coldness or of heat in chest. ─ Gnawing in r. chest with corrosive burning. ─ Gnawing sensation in (l.) chest. ─ Phthisis after mechanical injuries of chest. ─ A place in region of sternum is painful when touched.

Heart

Palpitation of heart with anxiety.

Neck and Back

Drawing in nape of neck and in the shoulder-blades. ─ Pressure on inside of r. scapula. ─ Pricking itching between scapulæ, not > by rubbing. ─ Contusive pains in back and loins, often with oppressed respiration. ─ Pain in loins and sacrum as from contusion. ─ Shootings in loins when walking and when stooping, or only when seated, > by pressure and when lying down. ─ Backache > lying on back. ─ Pain in lumbar vertebræ as if bruised. ─ Bruised pain in spine; and in iliac bones. ─ Pain from coccyx to os sacrum as from a fall or blow.

Limbs

Pains in the limbs, joints, and bones as if beaten, or after a blow or fall.

Upper Limbs

Wrenching pain in the shoulder-joint, esp. when permitting arms to hang down or when resting on them. ─ Shocks in arms as if in bones. ─ Dull tearings in bones of the arm and joints of elbow. ─ Pain as from contusion in joint of elbow. ─ Pain in forearms as well as in bones and joints of hands as if they had been beaten. ─ Pressive and spasmodic drawing and tearing in forearms, hands, and fingers. ─ Paralytic stiffness of wrist. ─ Wrenching pain or shootings in wrists. ─ Sensation as from a sprain and stiffness in wrist. ─ Bones of wrist and back of hand painful as if bruised when at rest and when moving. ─ Pain in wrist (as from a sprain) on lifting a weight. ─ Numbness and tingling in hands after exertion. ─ Spasmodic contraction of fingers. ─ Swollen veins on hands; after eating. ─ Warts; with sore pains; flat, smooth, on palms of hands.

Lower Limbs

Falling from side to side when walking, legs will not support him, no power or steadiness in thighs. ─ Legs give out on ascending or descending stairs. ─ Sciatica; < by cold applications, and in cold, wet weather. ─ Spasmodic drawing in thighs, extending into the hip-joint and sacrum. ─ Contusive pain in hip-joint and bones of the legs, esp. on touching and stretching them. ─ Weakness in thigh-bones on rising from a seat, as if they had been broken. ─ Weakness, trembling, and paralytic heaviness of knees and legs, which prevent standing firmly, fatigue and heaviness of legs after walking. ─ Sensation of contraction in tendons of knee (as if they were shortened, and weakness in them, esp. on descending). ─ "Rue pounded with honey and salt helps swelling of knee." ─ Culpepper). ─ Fistulous ulcers in legs. ─ Flexion of knees, esp. when going down stairs. ─ Lameness and pain in the ankles after a sprain or dislocation; as if ulcerated. ─ (Pain and tenderness in soles, aching in ankles and very acute shooting in back of l. heel, sometimes of r. with pinkish discoloration of it; and shootings up through limb settling in one spot (sacro-sciatic foramen), with aching and heavy drawing across back of neck as if being dragged down; patellæ stiff and snap on bending knees. ─ R. T. C.). ─ Burning, gnawing pain in bones of the feet, which does not permit standing or walking. ─ Paralytic stiffness of instep. ─ Small epithelial swellings on joints of toes.

Generalities

[We are led to the use of this remedy for injuries of the periosteum (as when a fall or an accident injures the periosteum), making it very sore and causing a bruised sensation; when the rectum protrudes from the anus after confinement; prolapsus ani, which may come down every time the bowels are moved; pain as if bruised in the outer parts and in the bones; wounds where the bones are injured; gnawing in the inner parts; affections in general of l. side of head; of the bladder; wrist-joints; lumbar region; bones of the lower extremity; < from lying on painful side; looking fixedly at an object, as in cases of those who have looked closely at watch-making, fine sewing, &c.; from taking uncooked food ─ H. N. G.]. ─ Contusive pains in limbs, joints, and bones, esp. when touched. ─ Burning or gnawing pains in periosteum of limbs. ─ Sensation of soreness of the parts on which one lies. ─ Pain in long bones as if broken. ─ Pressive, spasmodic tearings, and drawings in the limbs. ─ Sensation of fulness in whole body, with obstructed respiration. ─ Lassitude, weakness, and heaviness in all limbs, esp. when seated, with great restlessness in legs. ─ Lameness after sprains, esp. the wrists and ankles. ─ Tottering, unsteady gait, from weakness of thighs. ─ Sensation in all limbs as if severely beaten, with painful sensibility of sacrum and loins when sitting down after a short walk. ─ Sensation in head and body as if he had not slept enough. ─ Knows not where to put his legs on account of restlessness and heaviness, puts them first in one place, then in another, and turns his body from side to side. ─ Whole body feels as if stuffed full, whereby breathing is impeded. ─ Cannot bend his body, all joints and hip-bones painful as if bruised. ─ On touching the painful parts, and esp. hips and thigh-bones, they are painful as if bruised. ─ Acts specially on yellow elastic tissue (R. T. C.).

Skin

Gnawing itching on skin. ─ Erysipelatous inflammation. ─ Tendency to excoriation in children, either when walking or riding on horseback. ─ Inflamed ulcers. ─ Anasarca. ─ Warts; with sore pains; flat, smooth on palms.

Sleep

Frequent yawning and stretching. ─ Strong disposition to sleep in evening and after a meal, waking with a start, and piercing cries on least touch. ─ Nocturnal agitation, with tossing and frequent waking.

Fever

Pulse only accelerated during heat. ─ Coldness running over one side of head. ─ Chilliness principally in back and running up and down. ─ Heat over whole body, mostly in afternoon, without thirst, but with anxiety, restlessness, and dyspnœa. ─ Heat in face, with red cheeks and cold hands and feet. ─ Cold perspiration on face in morning in bed. ─ Perspiration all over when walking in open air. ─ Shuddering, coldness, and shivering, even when near the fire. ─ Coldness in hands and feet, with heat in face, confusion in head, and thirst. ─ General heat with agitation and excessive uneasiness, feeling of suffocation; and pressive headache. ─ Frequent flushes of heat.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

Constantine Hering · The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica · 1879–91

Mind

Inclination to contradict and quarrel.
Dissatisfied with himself and others.
Anxious and low-spirited, with mental dejection.
Melancholy disposition toward evening.

Sensorium

Vertigo : in morning when rising ; when sitting ; when walking in open air.

Inner head

Sticking drawing pain extending from frontal to temporal bone.
Stitches in left frontal bone, only while reading.
Pulsative pressing pain in forehead.
Heat in head, with much restlessness.
Rhythmical pressive pain in head.
Pain as from a fall, in periosteum, extending from temporal bones to occiput.
Headache : as if a nail were driven into head ; like a stupefying pressure on whole brain ; after excessive use of intoxicating drinks.

Outer head

Large painful swelling on scalp, as if originating in periosteum, sore to touch and preceded by rending pain.
Head externally painful, as if bruised or beaten.
Erysipelas of scalp, arising from wounds.
Humid scabs on head.
Periosteum from temples to occiput, pains as if bruised.
Corrosive itching on scalp.
Twitching in muscles of brow.

Sight and eyes

Vision very weak, as if eyes were excessively strained.
Objects seem dim before eyes, as if a shadow were flitting before them.
Dulness of sight, brought on by taxing or straining eyes.
As if sight had been strained by too much reading.
Letters seem to run together.
Pain like a pressure in right eye, with obscuration of vision, as if one had looked too long and intently at an object.
Aching in and over eyes, with blurring of vision, after using eyes and straining them at fine work.
Amblyopia : dependent upon overexertion of eyes, or anomalies of refraction ; from writing by artificial light ; fine needlework, etc. ; in a weaver, could with difficulty distinguish one thread from another, and could not read at
all ; mistiness of sight, with complete obscuration at a distance.
Asthenopia : irritability of every tissue of eye from overwork or from using eyes on fine work ; heat and aching in and over eyes, eyes feel like balls of fire at night, blurring of vision, letters seem to run together, lachrymation, etc.
Choroiditis in a myopic eye, caused by straining eyes ; much pain in eyes on trying to look at objects, heat in eye though it seems cold, and twitching in balls.
Asthenopia ; more often indicated in weakness of ciliary muscles than of internal recti.
Loss of power over internal rectus.
Burning in eyes in evening, especially when trying to sew or read ; eyes feel strained ; read too much by articial light.
Green halo around light in evening.
Spots on cornea.
Itching on inner canthus and on lower lid, smarting after rubbing, eye becomes full of water.
Eyes burn, ache, feel strained, sight blurred ; < using them in evening.
Burning beneath left eye.
Sensation of heat and fire in eyes and aching while reading (in evening by light).
Eyes appear irritable and run water, especially toward evening after working all day.
Pressure deep in orbits.
Pain as from a bruise in orbicular cartilages.
Pressure on inner surface of left eye, with profuse lachrymation.
Eyes feel hot like balls of fire.
Eyes water in open air, not indoors.
Spasms of lower eyelids, afterward lachrymation.

Hearing and ears

Sensation in ear as if one were digging about with a blunt piece of wood, a kind of scraping pressure.
Pain as if bruised in cartilage of ear, and under mastoid process.

Smell and nose

Sweat on dorsum of nose.
Bleeding of nose, with pressure at root of nose.

Upper face

Erysipelas and swelling on forehead.
Pain, as if bruised, in periosteum of facial bones.
Facial paralysis after catching cold.

Lower face

Lips dry and sticky.
Pimples on lips.
Pain as from a blow beneath mastoid process.

Teeth and gums

Pain in lower teeth.
Gums painful and bleed readily.

Taste, speech, tongue

Spasm of tongue, with difficulty of speech.

Palate and throat

Sensation as from a lump in throat on empty deglutition.

Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions

Appetite normal, but aversion to everything as soon as he begins to eat.
Unquenchable desire for cold water, drinks much and often without being incommoded.
Violent thirst for cold water in afternoon.

Eating and drinking

After eating : sudden nausea ; pinching in stomach after bread and butter ; eructations and itching of skin after meat ; replete as soon as he eats.

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

Hiccough, with depression.
Frequent odorless eructations.
A kind of nausea in pit of stomach.
Nausea, sudden, while eating, with vomiting of food.

Scrobiculum and stomach

Epigastric region sensitive.
Tension at stomach in great measure appeased by drinking milk.
Burning gnawing in stomach.
Gnawing sensation in stomach as from emptiness or hunger.
Pruritus of stomach and intestines showing itself by pricking, gnawing pains.
Dyspepsia of fifteen years, caused by straining stomach when carrying heavy weight ; pulse soft, and every attempt to eat meat would be followed by headache ; eructations and itching all over, like an undeveloped nettlerash ; he could eat fat meat
and drink milk.

Hypochondria

Gnawing pressing pain in region of liver.
Painful swelling of spleen.

Abdomen and loins

Gnawing pain about navel.
Colic : with burning or gnawing pain ; in children, from worms.

Stools and rectum

Stool : soft, discharged with difficulty, from inactivity of rectum ; rectum protrudes immediately on attempting a passage ; lumpy, slimy or bloody, with much flatus ; seemingly only flatus ; empty eructations,
distended abdomen ; feces often escape when bending over.
Frequent urging to stool with small, soft discharges.
Frequent unsuccessful urging, with prolapsus ani.
Constipation, alternating with mucous, frothy stools.
Scanty, hard stool ; stool like sheep's dung.
Constipation from inactivity of bowels or impaction of feces following mechanical injuries.
Difficult expulsion of large-sized feces.
Tearing in rectum and urethra, while urinating.
Tearing stitches in rectum while sitting.
Frequent pressure to stool, with prolapsus of rectum, also with emission of much flatus ; the slightest stooping, or still more crouching down, caused rectum to protrude.
Prolapsus of rectum ; frequent, lumpy, slimy stool, bloody at times ; much flatus ; stool often unsatisfactory, passing nothing but flatus ; empty eructations and distended abdomen ; feces often pass involuntarily while bending
over ; weakness in lumbar region ; frequent urination ; prolapse always with and sometimes without stool ; after sitting a long time at stool the prolapsed bowel becomes much swollen and difficult to replace ; four or five stools a day ; of years standing.
Protrusion of rectum, after confinement.
Prolapsus ani, after an attack of dysentery, half a year previously.
Frequently itching in rectum ; at times expulsion of thread worms ; slightly constipated ; abdomen somewhat bloated ; poor appetite ; sudden prolapsus recti, with tenesmus, after eating grapes ; prolapsus frequently recurred, especially after stool ;
after four weeks' use of Ruta, a mucous polypus was discharged from rectum, since then entirely well.
Worm complaints of children.

Urinary organs

Tearing pains in urethra while urinating.
Pressure on bladder, as if continually full ; the pressure to urinate continues after micturition ; at every step after urinating, she feels as if bladder were full and moving up and down.
Great pressure to urinate, as if bladder were constantly full, yet but little urine is passed, and micturition is followed by dragging as if much should be passed, which, however, does not occur.
Constant urging to urinate, could hardly retain urine ; when that feeling occurred she had to hurry to watercloset ; if she forcibly retained the water she could not pass any afterward and suffered severe pains.
Frequent pressure to urinate, with scanty green urine.
Spasmodic stricture of neck of bladder.
Frequent micturition.
Involuntary micturition at night in bed, and during day when walking.

Male sexual organs

Varicocele following a strain ; hæmatocele in which the effusion is small and firmly coagulated.

Female sexual organs

Menses : too early and too profuse ; feeble, followed by leucorrhœa.
Corrosive leucorrhœa after irregular or suppressed menses.

Pregnancy. parturition. lactation

Lameness and soreness all over ; weak, feeble contractions during labor.

Voice and larynx. trachea and bronchia

Sensation in larynx as from a bruise.

Respiration

Short breath with tightness of chest.

Cough

Awakened about midnight with a choking cough.
Cough with copious expectoration of thick yellow mucus, with weak feeling in chest after it.
Violent cough with expectoration of tough mucus and nausea.

Inner chest and lungs

Pressure on sternum seeming to be internal and external.
A painful spot on sternum, painful to pressure.
Gnawing pain, associated with some biting and burning in right side of chest.
Phthisis after mechanical injuries to chest.
Sensation of coldness or heat in chest.

Heart, pulse and circulation

Anxious palpitation.
Pulse unchanged ; or, somewhat accelerated only during heat.

Outer chest

On sternum a painful spot ; also painful to pressure.

Neck and back

For twelve days pain below right scapula < in evening, after exertion, by deep inspiration and by moving right arm ; > by pressure and lying down, especially on right side ; the pain extends over a spot as large as the palm ; when
severe it extends to corresponding part of left side.
Pain as if sprained or bruised in nape and shoulders.
Bruised pain extending along back.
Drawing, bruised pain in spine, frequently taking away breath.
Pain as if beaten and lame in spine.
Pressive drawing, very acute pain in right side of spine, opposite liver, especially on inspiration.
Pain as from a fall in dorsal vertebræ.
Severe pressure in small of back, from within outward, as if bruised ; pain appears 5 o'clock in morning, and is > by moving about and by passage of flatus.
Stitches in small of back when sitting, stooping or walking ; > by pressure and when lying down.
Stitches in spine while sitting ; is suddenly overcome by anxiety.
Rheumatic pains in back, < in morning before rising.
Pain as if bruised in lumbar vertebræ.
Weakness in lumbar region ; prolapsus recti.
Pain in back or coccyx, as from a blow or fall, or as if bruised.
Bruised sensation in hip bones.
Cramplike contraction or pulsation ascending from thighs into small of back.

Upper limbs

Pain in left elbow joint as from a blow ; arm weak.
Wrists feel as if sprained, stiff ; < in wet, cold weather.
Bones in wrist and back of hand painful, as if bruised, during rest and motion.
(In sick :) Ganglionic swelling on front of left wrist.
Hands numb and tingle after exercise.
Soreness through small bones of hands.
Ganglia on sheath of flexor tendons of fourth finger, situated in palm of right hand, as large as a hickory nut, greatly interfering with use of hand ; rheumatism of right leg.
Flat, smooth warts on inside of hands.
Contraction of fingers.
Bursitis.

Lower limbs

On rising, after sitting, he cannot walk ; he falls back again.
While walking he falls from side to side ; the feet will not support him ; there is no power or steadiness in thighs.
Ascending or descending a hill is difficult, the legs give out.
Hip bones feel bruised ; as if from a blow or fall.
The painful parts, especially hips and bones of legs, are sore, as if beaten, whenever touched.
Sciatica ; pain deep-seated as if in marrow of bone, or as if bone were broken ; obliged to walk about constantly during paroxysms ; pain < sitting or lying down ; constantly complaining about his sufferings ; burning, corrosive pains,
< in damp or cold weather, or from cold applications.
Shooting pains from back down outside of left thigh, sometimes down sciatic nerve on first moving or on rising after sitting ; hamstrings, chiefly outer, feel shortened and sore. θ Sciatic
rheumatism.
Ischias arising from injuries and contusions.
Anterior surface of thigh feels bruised and painful to touch.
Whenever he stretches out the limbs, even a little, the thighs are painful, as if beaten.
Hamstrings feel shortened and weak, knees give way going up or down stairs.
Posterior portion of thigh above knee seems bruised.
Pain and lameness in ankles after a sprain or dislocation.
Throbbing and hacking pain as if there were an ulcer on anterior portion of left ankle.
He dare not step heavily upon feet, on account of pains in bones of feet, with a sensation of heat.
Burning and biting pains in bones of feet during rest.
Fistulous ulcers on lower legs.

Limbs in general

Is unable to bend on account of pains in all the joints and hip bones.
Inflammation of larger joints, especially in upper extremities.
Since five weeks severe rheumatism of right wrist and in both feet from heels to toes ; has been in bed for a month ; puffy swelling of instep ; sour sweat.
Lameness after sprains, especially of wrists and ankles.

Rest. position. motion

Rest : wrist and back of hand painful ; pains in bones of feet.
Lying down : pain below right scapula > ; stitches in small of back > ; parts on which he lies sore.
Sitting : vertigo ; tearing stitches in rectum ; stitches in rectum ; stitches in small of back in spine ; on rising cannot walk, falls back again ; sciatica < ; pains down sciatic nerve on rising.
Lies in one position, then in another, turns from side to side ; uneasiness of legs ; rheumatism.
Bending over : feces often escape.
Slightest stooping or crouching down : causes rectum to protrude ; stitches in small of back.
Is unable to bend : pains in all joints.
Stretching out limbs even a little : thighs painful.
Motion : of right arm, pain below right scapula < ; > pain in small of back ; wrist and back of hand painful.
Exertion : pain below scapula <.
Exercise : hands numb and tingle.
Walking : vertigo ; involuntary micturition ; stitches in small of back ; falls from side to side ; short distance, great weakness ; limbs painful.
Ascending or descending a hill is difficult, legs give out.
Going up and down stairs : hamstrings feel shortened and weak.

Nerves

Great weakness after a short walk ; the limbs feel bruised ; small of back and loins are painful.
Tottering, as if thighs were weak ; limbs pain when walking.
Does not know where to lay his legs on account of uneasiness and heaviness ; he lies now in one place, now in another, and turns from side to side.
All parts of the body upon which he lies, even in bed, are painful as if bruised.
Restless, turns and changes position frequently when lying. θ Rheumatism.
Facial paralysis after catching cold ; suits robust and sanguineous persons.
Rheumatic paralysis of tarsal and carpal joints.

Sleep

Yawning and stretching, indoors.
Sleepiness during day.
Frequent waking at night, feeling as if it were time to rise.
Vivid confused dreams.

Time

Morning : vertigo on rising ; rheumatic pains in back < before rising ; sweat in bed.
At 5 o'clock A. M. : pressure in small of back.
During day : involuntary micturition ; sleepiness.
Afternoon : thirst for cold water ; heat with anxiety.
Toward evening : eyes irritable and run water.
Evening : melancholy disposition, burning in eyes ; green halo around light ; slight blurred, eyes ache ; pain below right scapula.
Night : eyes feel like balls of fire ; involuntary micturition in bed ; feeling as if it were time to rise.
About midnight : awakened with a choking cough.

Temperature and weather

Near warm stove : chill ; chilliness.
Indoors : yawning and stretching.
Open air : vertigo when walking, eyes water ; after walking, general sweat.
Cold applications : sciatica <.
Cold water : thirst for.
Wet, cold weather : wrists feel stiff, sprained ; sciatica <.

Fever

Coldness running over one side of head.
Coldness down spine.
Chill mostly left-sided ; < up and down back ; shakes even near a warm stove.
Chill with heat of face and violent thirst.
External and internal heat of face with red cheeks and cold hands and feet.
Frequent attacks of quick flushes of heat.
Heat, mostly afternoons, with anxiety, restlessness and dyspnœa ; no thirst.
Sweat, cold on face ; morning in bed.
General sweat after walking in open air.
Chilliness through whole body even when near a warm stove, hands and feet cold, confusion and heat in head, great thirst which disappears immediately after drinking, frequent sneezing, pain in eyes as if strained, lachrymation, pain in larynx as if bruised,
hoarse cough awakening him at midnight, and causing by its continuation vomiting and pain in sternum, expectoration seldom and scanty. θ Catarrhal fever.

Attacks, periodicity

Day : four or five stools.
For twelve days : pain below right scapula.
Since five weeks : severe rheumatism of right wrist, both feet.
Years standing : prolapsus of rectum.

Locality and direction

Right : pain like a pressure in eye ; biting and burning on side of chest ; pain, below scapula ; acute pain in side of chest ; ganglion on sheath of flexor tendon of fourth finger in palm ; rheumatism of leg ; rheumatism of wrist.
Left : stitches in frontal bone ; burning beneath eye ; pressure on inner surface of eye ; ganglionic swelling on front of wrist ; pain down outside of thigh ; as of an ulcer on ankle ; chill mostly side.
From within outward : pressure in small of back.

Sensations

As if from a fall, pain in periosteum ; as if a nail were driven into head ; head as if bruised or beaten ; pains as if bruised in periosteum ; as if eyes were excessively strained ; as if a shadow were flitting before eyes ; as if one had looked
too long and intently at an object ; eyes as if balls of fire ; as if one were digging about in ear with a blunt piece of wood ; as of a lump in throat ; bladder as if continually full ; spine as if beaten and lame ; wrists as if sprained ; as if pain were
in marrow of bone or as if bone were broken ; thighs as if beaten ; as if there were an ulcer in ankle ; as if thighs were weak ; all parts of body as if bruised at night, feeling as if it were time to rise.
Pain like a pressure : in right eye ; in orbicular cartilages ; in lower teeth ; below left scapula ; in ankles ; in bones of feet ; in all joints and hip-bones ; in nerves and tissues.
Shooting pains : from back down outside of left thigh.
Rending pain : on scalp, preceding swelling.
Tearing : in rectum and urethra.
Hacking pain : in anterior portion of left ankle.
Throbbing pain : in anterior portion of left ankle.
Tearing stitches : in rectum.
Stitches : in left frontal bone ; in small of back ; in spine.
Stitching-drawing pain : from forehead to temples.
Pressive-drawing, very acute pain : in right side of spine.
Pain as if bruised.
Bruised pain : in orbicular cartilages ; in cartilage of ear and under mastoid process ; in periosteum of facial bones ; in larynx ; in nape and shoulders ; along back ; in spine ; in small of back ; in lumbar vertebræ ; in coccyx ;
in hip bones, in bones of wrists and back of hand.
Pain as from a blow : below mastoid process ; in coccyx ; in left elbow joint.
Pain as from a fall : in dorsal vertebræ ; in back or coccyx.
Pinching : in stomach.
Pulsative pressing pain : in forehead.
Rhythmical pressive pain : in head.
Gnawing pain : in stomach, about navel ; in right side of chest.
Pricking, gnawing pains : in stomach and intestines.
Burning gnawing : in stomach.
Gnawing, pressing pain : in region of liver.
Burning : in eyes ; beneath left eye ; in right side of chest ; in bones of feet.
Biting : in right side of chest ; in bones of feet.
Cramplike contraction or pulsation : ascending from thighs into small of back.
Soreness : all over ; through small bones of hands ; in hamstrings ; of parts on which he lies.
Rheumatic pain : in back ; of right leg ; of right wrist, both feet from heels to toes.
Aching : in and over eyes.
Pressure : deep in orbits ; on inner surface of left eye ; at root of nose ; on bladder ; on sternum ; in small of back.
Painful spot : on sternum.
Twitching : in eyeballs.
Tension : at stomach.
Lameness : all over ; in ankles.
Heaviness : of legs.
Uneasiness : of legs.
Heat : in head ; in eyes ; in chest ; in feet ; of face.
Weak feeling : in chest, in lumbar region.
Corrosive itching : on scalp.
Itching : on inner canthus and on lower lid ; of skin after meat ; in rectum.
Coldness : in chest ; over one side of head ; down spine ; of hands and feet.

Tissues

Bruised feeling all over as from a fall or blow, < in limbs and joints.
Sensation of soreness of parts on which he lies.
Pain in nerves or tissues that have been stretched, as in sprains.
Pain in long bones as if they were broken.
Bruises and other mechanical injuries of bones and periosteum ; sprains ; periostitis ; erysipelas.
Dropsy.
Periostitis and pains in consequence of external injury, with erysipelatous inflammation of parts.
In dislocations where the inflammation is fully under control, it hastens the curative process in the joint.
Bone lesions and fractures ; scrofulous exostoses.
Swelling of ankles.
Small epithelial swellings on joints of toes.

Touch. passive motion. injuries

Touch : swelling on scalp sore, painful parts sore ; anterior surface of thigh feels painful.
Pressure : a spot on sternum painful ; pain below right scapula > ; stitches in small of back >.
Rubbing : smarting of lower lid and inner canthus.
Scratching : > itching.
Walking or riding : causes chafing of skin.
Straining stomach when carrying a heavy weight : caused dyspepsia.
Mechanical injuries : inactivity of bowels or impaction of feces ; to chest, phthisis.

Skin

Itching over whole body, > scratching.
Itching of skin after eating meat.
Jaundice from liver complaints.
Skin becomes easily chafed, from walking and riding ; also in children.
Acne rosacea.
Erysipelas : after mechanical injuries ; of hands.
Ulcers and scabs on scalp, with copious discharge.
Ulcerations ; gnawing, jerking pains ; pus sanious.
Fistulous ulcers on lower legs.
Inflamed ulcers.
Warts ; with sore pains ; flat, smooth on inside of hands.

Stage of life, constitution

In robust, sanguineous persons.
Child, æt. 1 1/2, suffering half a year after an attack of dysentery ; prolapsus ani.
Girl æt. 6, pale, delicate, subject to slight catarrhal attacks, which generally yielded to Acon. ; polypus and prolapsus of rectum.
Man æt. 27, nervous temperament, dark hair, blue eyes, troubled for years, it is a family complaint ; prolapse of rectum.
Weaver, æt. 29 ; amblyopia.
Woman, æt. 34 ; pain in back.
Mrs. H., æt. 36, suffering a long time ; urinary difficulty.
Man æt. 53 ; suffering five weeks ; rheumatism.

Relations

Antidoted by : Camphor .
It antidotes : Mercur .
Compatible : Calc. ost., Caust., Lycopod., Phos. ac., Pulsat., Sepia, Sulphur, Sulph. ac . (diseases of bones).
Compare : Arnic., Argent. nit . (asthenopia), Bryon., Calc. ost., Conium (asthenopia), Euphras., Lycopod., Mercur., Mezer., Phosphor., Phytol., Pulsat., Rhus tox., Sepia, Silica, Sulphur .

Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica

James Tyler Kent · Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica · homeoint.org / Séror HTML text (Kent d. 1916; public domain)

Lecture

Ruta is another remedy often overlooked. It is sometimes overlooked and Rhus or Argentum nitricum given, or other remedies not fully related to the case are given because Ruta is not well known.

Many of its symptoms are difficult to classify in the Repertory. A knowledge of its nature must be obtained. It falls under a class of complaints that resemble Rhus, in that it is sensitive to cold, aggravated from cold, damp weather; aggravated from becoming cold, and the complaints are often brought on from straining the part; overstraining or overexertion of parts, but principally confined to parts that are of a tendinous character aponeurotic fibres; white fibrous tissue; the flexor tendons especially flexor tendons that are overstrained by exertion.

Rhus has something like this, but nothing like what is found in Ruta. Ruta often suits in various surgical conditions; periosteal troubles from injury. Periosteal trouble where the flesh is thin over the bone; over the tibia. Bruises go away slowly and leave a hardened spot; thickening of periosteum; a knotty, nodular condition; it remains sore; slow repair. A lump in the periosteum that has existed for months or years; sensitive and sore and nodular; as a result of a blow with a stick or a hammer, or from bumping the shin bone,

Bruises

In farmers, woodmen, mechanics, from holding a hammer or iron instrument; hard nodules form in the palm from clasping the hand over an iron instrument in projecting it forward, as from using a crowbar; a hardened mass of tissue in the tendons, like a bursa.

Tendency to the formation of deposits in the periosteum, in bone, in tendons, about joints. The especial location is in the wrist; bursae and nodules form in this part. Overstraining of tendons and in the place where it is likely to give out a nodule will form in the tendon; lumps, bunches, little tumors in the tendon. Gradually increasing contraction of flexors, so that the hands become permanently flexed; the foot becomes flexed so that the sole becomes increasingly concave, and the toes are drawn under from overstraining and violence to the flexors.

Eyes

Overstraining of the muscles of the eye.

These muscles are largely tendinous. Continual use until it becomes an overuse. Eyestrain followed by headache, and the effects are also; on the globe of the eye, and coating of the eye, so that the overstrained eye is red.

Pain in the eye, above and through the eye when he attempts to use the vision, that is, aggravation from the exertion of vision. From looking at fine print, fine sewing. This overexertion of vision brings about redness, pain and inability to concentrate vision on one point.

Headache follows. Here Argentum nitricum resembles Ruta. Arg. nit. and Na trum mur are the two remedies most frequently used, but Onosmodium is a very frequently indicated remedy for headaches from eyestrain.

But they can be easily differentiated. Ruta is aggravated from cold, wants everything warm. Arg. nit. is aggravated from heat wants to be in a cool place. The patient must be considered.

There is general exhaustion in Ruta. The legs give out on rising from a chair, the patient totters and makes several efforts on rising from a seat. Routinists give Phosphorus and Conium for this. Ruta and Phosphorus both have violent, unquenchable thirst for ice-cold water. Compare Phos. and Con . because of the weakness through the hips and thighs.

Mind

The remedy has not been proved sufficiently to bring out the mental symptoms.

They are only common and belong to many other remedies.

"Inclination to contradict and quarrel."

"Dissatisfied with himself and others."

"Anxious and low-spirited, with mental dejection."

These symptoms are only common; they can be grouped in one of two classes. The patient can be irritable, or the opposite-good-natured. This remedy is classified among the irritable.

"Despondent," that is, the opposite of happy-another of two classes.

"Melancholy disposition toward evening."

The only thing here is that it is aggravated toward evening. When things are brought out so that they belong to one of two classes, they are important only in a mild degree.

Pains

Many of the complaints are worse lying down, especially the pains that are sharp, stinging, tearing in the nerves.

Ruta is a painful medicine, but is slow in producing symptoms, hence it of a chronic nature. Old neuralgias, stinging, tearing, burning pains, especially in the lower extremities, about the eyes; faceaches. It has all the pains, described by all the adjectives that apply to pain, but it is worse lying down and worse from cold.

Rending, tearing pains in the sciatic nerves. The severest forms of sciatica; pains commence in the back and go down the hips and thighs; tearing pains; comfortable during the day, but aggravated as soon as he lies down at night. Gnaphalium is a great sciatic remedy, and it also has this aggravation from lying down.

Eyes again:

"Eyes feel hot like balls of fire."

To use Ruta for a pure inflammation when the eyes feel hot would be a failure. Euphrasia, Belladonna and Aconite are used in simple inflammations from a cold, and the, antipsorics when the case is chronic. But if a woman strains her eyes from long sewing on fine work, and the balls feel like fire, she needs Ruta. Aconite if after exposure to cold winds, there is inflammation with lachrymation, and the eyes look like raw beef.

"Eyes burn, ache, feel strained; sight blurred; aggravated from using them in the evening,"

In part of the general aggravation in the evening. When, in copying, the manuscript is placed here, and the copy at a different distance, this necessitates a constant change of vision in looking from one to the other, and especially if the copying is done in a poor light, a headache will come on, which Ruta will cure.

After overusing the eyes in this way, if the patient rides in a cold wind, a paralytic weakness results, and this is a further indication for Ruta. Lachrymation from exposure to the wind or riding in the cold. Paralysis of certain muscles of the eye, even strabismus; all sorts of disturbances of accommodation.

"Loss of power over internal rectus."

"Asthenopia; irritability of every tissue of eye from overwork or from using eyes on fine pork; beat and aching in and over eyes; eyes feel like balls of fire at night; blurring of vision; letters seem to run together, lachrymation, etc."

Amplyopia, dependent upon overexertion of eyes, or anomalies of refraction; from writing by artificial light.; fine needlework, etc. in a weaver, could with difficulty distinguish one, thread from another, and could not read at all; mistiness of sight, with complete obscuration at a distance.

Anus and rectum

Constipation is a striking feature, with prolapsus of the rectum at stool.

"Frequent unsuccessful urging with prolapsus ani."

"Protrusion of rectum after confinement."

Pain in rectum when sitting. Great soreness in rectum as from ulceration. It is a useful remedy in piles and stricture of the rectum.

Back symptoms.

It is a decided rheumatic remedy. All those remedies which are susceptible to cold, aggravated by cold, wet, stormy weather, are described as rheumatic remedies.

Rheumatic symptoms of the back.

"Pains as if bruised in lumbar vertebrae."

"Pain in back or coccyx as from a fall or blow, or as if bruised."

"Hamstrings feel shortened and weak; knees give way going up or down stairs."

"Pain and lameness in the ankles after sprain or dislocation."

"Lameness after sprains, especially of the wrists and ankles."

Immediately after a, sprain, for the inflammatory state, you will most likely need to give Arnica, and Rhus will probably follow. But when nodules occur in the tendons as a result of the strain, Ruta is called for.

Ruta is a great remedy for a mere sprain; it has all the soreness and weakness of tendons. Arnica, Rhus and Calcarea are often necessary in a routine way when there is absence of all symptoms, except the strain alone.

Paralytic weakness in the lower extremities after a sprain of the back. Under the aggravation in the evening is melancholy disposition, burning in the eyes, green halo around the light; sight blurred; eyes ache; pain below right scapula.

Extreme restlessness like Rhus. So restless be can't keep still; a nervous restlessness.

"Bruised feeling all over as from a fall or blow, worse in the limbs and joints."

"Bruises and other mechanical injuries of bones and periosteum; sprains; periostitis; erysipelas."

Ruta is related to and is an antidote to Mercury.

Eruptions on the skin with itching, which changes place after scratching like Mezereum. Compare Phos. in the thirst for cold water and the weakness of the lower extremities. In the rheumatism distinguish Phytolacca.

Compare Rhus, Sepia, Silicea and Sulphur. Ruta is an antipsoric, but not so deep as Silicea and Sulphur.