Ruta graveolens
as Cyrus Maxwell Boger recorded it in A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1931
This is one author on one remedy. A compressed key — the generals and the characteristic modalities, with very little narrative. Read Ruta graveolens in every book at once →
Keynotes
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. .................... 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.
Worse
Over-exertion: EYE-STRAIN. Injury. Sprains. COLD: Air. Wind. Damp. Wet. LYING. SITTING. Pressure on an edge.
Better
Lying on back. Warmth. Motion. BRUISED, SORE ACHING AND RESTLESSNESS. Painful weariness. Heaviness; as of a
Region
Fibrous tissues: EYES. Flexor tendons. Joints. Wrists and ankles. Back (lumbar). Cartilages. Periosteum. Uterus. Skin.
Relationships
Complementary: Calc-p. Related: Arn. Phyt. Ran-sc. Symp.
What the other books say about Ruta graveolens
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Ruta graveolens in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
- Ruta graveolens in Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
- Ruta graveolens in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.
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Create a free accountCite this page. Cyrus Maxwell Boger. A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica. 1931. Ruta graveolens — Keynotes. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boger/ruta-graveolens. Author died 1935: public domain in India. The catalogue records 1931; a 1931 edition is public domain in the US from 1 Jan 2027 at the latest — the edition this transcription follows is not stated in the file. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.