Ruta graveolens
ruta-graRue-bitterwort 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.
Ruta graveolens — Materia Medica
Ruta graveolens — keynotes · Cyrus Maxwell Boger
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.
Ruta graveolens — mind · James Tyler Kent
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.
Ruta graveolens — general · James Tyler Kent
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.
Ruta graveolens — black letter · Margaret Lucy Tyler
Head. Shooting pain from frontal to temporal bone : from temporal bone to occiput : in the periosteum : pain as if from a fall. Stitches in left frontal bone, only from reading. Rhythmical pressive pain in head. Sensation of heat and fire in Eyes : aching while reading, in the evening, by the light. Eyes feel fatigued, as after reading too long. Weary pain in the eyes while reading. Aching in and over eyes, vision blurred, after using eyes and straining them over fine work. Vision very weak, as if eyes were excessively strained. Asthenopia : irritability of every tissue of eye, from overwork, ot using eyes on too 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. A burning under left eye. Itching inner canthi and on lower lids, which smart after rubbing them, when eyes become filled with water. Spasm in lower eyelid ; the tarsus is drawn hither and thither, and when it ceases, water runs from both eyes. Sensation in Ear as if a blunt piece of wood were pushed about in it : a scratching pressure. - - Cartilages of ears pain, as from a blow or fall. Under the mastoid firocess pain as from a blow or fall. Tension in Stomach > by drinking milk. In the Hepatic Region an aching, gnawing pain. When sitting, tearing stitches in the rectum. Tearing in rectum and urethra, when not urinating. Prolapsus of rectum. Faeces pass involuntarily while bending over. Prolapse always with and sometimes without stool. Protrusion of rectum after confinement.
Ruta graveolens — introduction · Margaret Lucy Tyler
reading, in which Swedjaur and Chomel agree with him, he must be very blind who fails to see that these are solely owing to the homoeopathic power of Rue to cause a similar condition in healthy persons.” He refers to the symptoms, 44, 45 : " 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 eyes and pain in them when he reads.” He goes on : ” By this so similarly acting medicine the malady is certainly not increased and aggravated as our opponents, who think themselves so wise in their ignorance, would conclude, with ridiculous expressions of alarm, and without interrogating experience. On the contrary, it will be cured (if not dependent on a miasmatic dyscrasia) to the bitter disappointment and confusion of learned routinists who reject the most beneficent of all truths.” Hahnemann is delightful in his happy expressions. " A domestic remedy in itidetermitiate cases ” ; opponents ” who without interrogating experience think themselves wise in their ignorance ”. But, I suppose we all do that, more or less : like madness, ” it is only a case of degrees ”. “ Ridiculous expressions of alarm without interrogating experience.” The black letter symptoms give one a great idea as to the range of action of a drug, and the special localities it attacks. Glancing down these, there is no doubt as to the effect of Ruta on the eye ; but it is chiefly on the eye muscles, tiring, and failing to accommodate, that Ruta acts. It does not appear to violently inflame the eye, like Arg. nit.
Ruta graveolens — modalities worse · Cyrus Maxwell Boger
Over-exertion: EYE-STRAIN. Injury. Sprains. COLD: Air. Wind. Damp. Wet. LYING. SITTING. Pressure on an edge.
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