RUTA.
Ruta graveolens, Linn.
Natural order
, Rutaceæ.
Common names
, Rue; (G.). Raute.
Preparation
, Tincture of the whole plant.
Authorities.
(Nos. 1 to 11,
from Hahnemann, R. A. M. L., 4). 1,
Hahnemann; 2, Franz; 3, Gross; 4,
Hartmann; 5, Herrmann; 6, Hornburg; 7,
Langhammer; 8, Stapf; 9, Wislicenus; 10,
El. Camerarius, hort. Med; 11, Lev.
Leminus, de occultis Nat. Miraculis, II, cap. I; 12, Hartlaub and Trinks, R. A. M. L., 1, 139;
13, Hering, Archiv f. Hom., 15, 1,
187; 14, Roth, in Buchner’s
Toxicology, p. 265, effects of plucking the leaves from a plant in
flower, on a hot day; 15, Bulliard,
Plant. vén. de la France (from Wibmer), effects of large doses; 16, Plinius, Hist. Nat., 1, 20, c. 13 (from
Wibmer), effects of handling Rue, in a gardener; 17, Helie, Annals de Hyg., pub. 1841 (from
Archiv f. Hom., 19, 171), a woman, four months pregnant, took an
infusion of three fresh roots; 18,
same, another pregnant woman took an infusion; 19,
same, a pregnant woman took a large quantity of the freshly expressed
juice; 20, Soubeiran, Gaz. Hebdom.,
1861, L’Art Méd., 14, 466, effects of handling the leaves; 21, Schelling, A. H. Z., 84, 44, proving with
7th dil., two doses, first day; 21a, same, took 4th dil. five times a day; 22, Dr. Van der Warker, “The Detection
of Criminal Abortion,”, p. 6, proving with 10-minim doses of the
oil, at 9.05, 9.30, and 9.35 P.M., one evening.
MIND.
►
Good humor, [7]. [Curative action.
-Hahnemann.] ► Very frequent anxiety,
with despondent thoughts and fear, [2].
► Very anxious all day, as though he
had done something wrong; if any one only opened the door he feared that
some one had come to arrest him, [7].
► Morose, peevish, if everything did
not please him (after twenty-four hours), [9].
► Morose, peevish, fretful, [3]. ►
Very ill-humored in the afternoon and evening; he was melancholy,
dissatisfied with life, and sad, [2].
► Fretful, ill-humored, and
irresolute, [8]. ► Peevish and mistrustful all day; he no
longer trusted his best friends, he thought that he was constantly
deceived (after forty hours), [7].
► Inclined to contradict, [3]. [10.]
► Quarrelsome, inclined to anger and
vexation, [3]. ► Much dissatisfied by everything that
happened to him, and especially with whatever he did himself, and great
inclination to weep, [1]. ► Indifference, [8]. ► She was
disinclined for every work, and took no interest in anything; she felt
uncomfortable, [3]. ► Thought and comprehension slow, [8]. ►
Slight confusion of ideas (after second dose), [22]. ►
Frequent loss of thought; he does quite mechanically, and at the wrong
time, things that have become easy from frequent repetition (after
forty-eight hours), [9]. ► Stupefaction, from which, however, she
could easily be aroused, [18].
HEAD.
►
Confusion and Vertigo. ►
Confusion of the head, a kind of senselessness, [6]. ► Sudden
violent vertigo while sitting; everything turned in a circle; followed
by glowing heat of the cheeks (after twelve hours), [7]. [20.] ► Violent vertigo, in the morning, on
rising from bed; he would have fallen forward if he had not steadied
himself (after twenty-four hours), [7].
► Violent vertigo, while walking in
the open air, almost as if he would fall to the right if he did not
steady himself (after twenty-six hours), [7].
► General Head. ► Dulness of the head, [8], [17]. ► Head dull, heavy, with tension in the
forehead (fifth day), [21a]. ► In the head and in the body a sensation
as though he had not slept enough, [6].
► Heaviness of the head (second day),
[21a]. ►
Persistent heaviness of the head, especially in the forehead, as though
a heavy weight were lying upon it (after three-quarters of an hour), [4]. ►
Tensive pain in the brain (second day), [21a].
► *Rhythmical pressive pain in the head,
[4]. ►
Confused pressure in the whole head, [8].
[30.] ►
Oppressive feeling in head (after second dose), [22]. ►
Pressive headache over the whole brain, in the morning, after rising
(after twenty-four hours), [2]. ► Headache, like a pressure upon the whole
brain, with great activity of the nervous system, and uneasiness in the
whole body, that did not permit him to sit still, after dinner, [2]. ►
Headache from reading a little (third day), [21a]. ► Sense
of uneasiness in head (after first dose), [22].
► Burning-compressing pain on the
head externally, stupefying him (after eleven hours), [6]. ► Forehead.
► Dulness in the brain, in the
forehead, with throbbing pain, in the evening, before going to sleep,
and still worse in the morning, on waking from sleep that was too sound,
[1]. ►
Gnawing pressive headache in the forehead (after twelve hours), [9]. ►
Pressive drawing headache in the right side of the forehead, [6]. ►
Pressure in the forehead above the root of the nose (after two hours and
a half), [2]. [40.] ►
Pressive stupefying headache, especially in the right side of the
forehead, with nausea and a sensation of heat in the face (after four
hours and a half), [7]. ► Sticking and pressure above the left
eyebrow (second day), [21a]. ► Pressive sticking pain over the whole
forehead, especially when coughing (after two hours), [1]. ►
Sticking pain in the left frontal eminence (second day), [21a]. ► A
sticking-drawing pain extending from the frontal to temporal bone,
[4]. ►
Stitches in the left frontal bone, only while reading (second
day), [21a]. ►
Intermittent boring stitches in the right side of the forehead (while
sitting), (after three hours and three-quarters), [7]. ► Temples.
► Pain as from a fall, in the periosteum
extending from the temporal bones to the occiput, [6]. ►
Dull tearing in the temporal bones (after one hour), [9]. ► Parietals.
► (A tearing on the right parietal
bone, that disappeared in the evening; on the next morning there was a
boil there as large as a walnut, painful to touch, as if suppurating;
disappeared after a few days), [1].
► Occiput. [50.] ►
Pressure in the occiput (third day), [21a].
► Pressure, heaviness, and tension in
the occiput (fourth day), [21a]. ► Pressive pain in the occiput (fourth
day), [21a]. ►
Beating pressive pain in the side of the occiput, [2]. ► External
Head. ► Erysipelas on the
forehead, [10]. [From plucking the
herb. -Hahnemann.] ► The forehead is
thick and swollen; a thick red stripe, like a long swelling, extended
from the root of the nose, at the inner margin of the eyebrow, upward to
the frontal eminence, on both sides; the swelling was not sore to touch,
[12]. ►
Two ulcers on the scalp, one on the left side and one towards the nape
of the neck, with biting itching, obliging scratching and frequently
returning (after thirty-eight hours), [7].
► Itching of the scalp just behind
the left ear; the spot is painful when touched, like itching, associated
with soreness; on scratching the itching and soreness disappeared, [2]. ►
(Violent pain, sticking and tearing, on the scalp, after which there
arose a pimple as large as a half dollar, and elevated to the thickness
of a finger, at first painful to touch), [1].
► Biting itching, as from vermin,
over the whole scalp, especially on the left side and on the occiput,
only disappearing after scratching a great deal, but always returning
(after thirty-eight hours), [7]. [60.] ► On
the left side of the scalp biting itching as from lice, that obliged
scratching, and frequently returned (after thirty-six hours), [7]. ►
Tensive drawing pain, as from a blow or thrust, externally on the side
of the head, [6]. ► Sticking drawing externally in the vertex
(after twenty-four hours), [8].
EYE.
►
Involuntary staring at a single point, with contracted pupils (after
half an hour), [4]. ► Burning beneath the left eye (after
three hours), [6]. ►► *Sensation of heat and fire in the eyes,
and aching while reading (in the evening, by the light), [3]. ►
*Slight pain like a pressure in the right eye, with obscuration of
vision, as if one had looked too long and intently at an object, which
distressed the eye, [5].
► *Pressure on the inner surface of the
left eye, with profuse lachrymation, in the open air (after
forty-eight hours), [5]. ►► *The eyes feel fatigued, as after reading
too long, [6]. ►► *Weary pain in the eyes while reading
(second day), [21]. ► Brow and Orbit. [70.] ►
Twitching and visible jerking in the muscles of the eyebrows (after
twelve hours), [1]. ► Spasm of the lower portion of the
orbicularis palpebrarum, which is drawn back and forth, [6]. ► *Pressure
deep in the orbits (second day), [21]. ► Pain as
from a bruise in the orbicular cartilages, [6]. ►
Pressure on the upper margin of the orbits, with tearing in the eyeball,
[2]. ►
Lid. ► Mucus in both
canthi, in the morning, constantly reproduced after wiping it away, [12]. ►
*Cramp in the lower lid, the tarsal cartilage is drawn back and forth,
and after this ceases water runs from both eyes for an hour and a half,
[6]. ►
Sticking and biting as from dust in the canthi, in the morning (fifth
day), [21a]. ►
Burning and smarting in the outer canthi (fourth day), [21a]. ►
(Itching and biting in the lids, in the evening), (fourth day), [21a]. [80.]
► *Itching in the inner canthi and on the
lower lids, that after rubbing became a biting, so that the eye filled
with water (after a quarter of an hour), [9]. ► Ball.
► Pressure on both eyeballs,
associated with a spasm of the lower lid, which was drawn partly upward,
and still more towards the inner canthus, lasting several days (after
eight hours), [9]. ► Pupil. ►
Pupils contracted (after two hours and a half), [7], [18]. ► Vision. ►
He sees distant objects more distinctly than usual; (the prover was
myopic), [12]. ►► *Vision very weak, as if the eyes were
excessively strained, two mornings
in succession (first and second days), [21]. ► *Objects
seem dim before the eyes, as if a shadow were flitting before it,
[9]. ►
(Flitting points before the eyes), [1].
► It seems as though it were not
bright enough before the eyes, [6].
EAR.
►
When he shakes the head it seems as though something were rolling back
and forth in the ear, [6]. [90.] ►
Pain in the ears, as from a hard pressure on them, [6]. ► Sensation
in the ear as if one were digging about with a blunt piece of wood, a
kind of scraping pressure (after two hours), [6]. ►
Tickling, hot pressure in the ears, aggravated by inserting the finger, [6]. ►
Itching stitches within the right ear (after three hours), [9].
NOSE.
►
Frequent sneezing, [7]. ► Frequent sneezing and yawning, with
chilliness (third day), [21a]. ► (Nosebleed), [1]. ► (Blood
is blown from the nose all day), [1].
► A pain in the upper part of the
nose, as if a plug were forced transversely through, with scraping and
pressure; this sensation could not be removed by blowing the nose nor by
inserting the finger, [6]. ► Sharp pressure on the root of the nose
(after thirty-six hours), [9].
FACE.
[100.]
► A numb pain, as after a blow, in
the bones of the face, extending into the teeth and lower jaw, [6]. [Many symptoms of Ruta seem to be
seated in the periosteum or bones. -Hahnemann.] ►
Cramplike tearing pain on the malar bone, with pressive stupefying
headache in both sides of the forehead (after five hours), [7]. ►
Pain as from a blow or fall below the mastoid process, [6]. ►
A biting goutlike pain in both cheeks, [6].
► Pinching in the left cheek (after
twenty-four hours), [9].
MOUTH.
►
Digging pain in the lower teeth, [1].
► Bleeding of the gums on brushing or
picking the teeth, [1]. ► Pain on the inner surface of the right
upper gum, as if sore and swollen, with drawing stitches, worse when
touched (after thirty-six hours), [9].
► Tongue red on the margins, [18]. ►
Tongue red and swollen, [19]. [110.] ►
Dryness of the mouth, [15]. ► The mouth is dry and glutinous at times, [8]. ►
Pressive pain in the hard palate, more when not than when swallowing
(after two hours), [1]. ► Sensation of soreness and pressure on the
root of the palate, only when swallowing, [3].
► Great salivation, [19]. ► Food
has a wooden taste, as if dry and tasteless (second day), [3].
THROAT.
►
Pains in the throat, [15].
STOMACH.
►
Appetite and Thirst. ► She
is as hungry as usual; but immediately on beginning to eat everything
disgusts and nauseates her, [3]. ► He is hungry, yet as soon as he eats
anything he experiences a tense oppression in the upper abdomen and
chest, as if he were satiated (after five hours), [3]. ► Little
appetite for dinner, [13]. [120.] ►
Little appetite (second day), [21a].
► Aversion to meat and vegetables, [13]. ►
Unquenchable thirst for cold water, in the afternoon; he drinks
frequently and much, without being distressed thereby (after twenty-four
hours), [3]. ►
Thirst for cold water, in the afternoon (after thirty-three hours), [7]. ►
Eructations and Hiccough. ►
After eating and drinking, eructations tasting of the food, [3]. ►
*Eructations (immediately), [6].
► Eructations of only gas, [4]. ►
*Frequent odorless eructations (second day), [21a]. ►
Frequent hiccough, with some nausea (during the customary smoke), (after
thirty-four hours), [7]. ► Frequent hiccough (during the customary
smoke), (after four hours), [7]. ► Nausea and Vomiting. [130.] ► A
kind of nausea in the pit of the stomach, with desire for
stool that is relieved for a moment by emission of flatus, [2]. ►
Qualmishness on stooping, [10]. ► Violent vomiting, with some vomiting of
blood, [17]. ►
Constant violent painful vomiting, with spasmodic distortion of the
head, trunk, and extremities, [18].
► Stomach. ► *Epigastric region sensitive, [18]. ►
Griping in the right side of the epigastric region, after eating some
bread and butter, [12]. ► Frightful pains in the stomach, [17]. ►
Warmth at stomach (after first dose), [22].
► Emptiness and gnawing in the
stomach, as if he had not taken food for a long time (after ten hours), [6]. ►
Tension at stomach in great measure appeased
by drinking milk (after third dose), [22]. [140.] ► *Burning gnawing in the stomach, [6]. ►
Gnawing pressure in the pit of the stomach, at night and in the morning
(after twelve hours), [3]. ► Uneasiness in stomach (after second
dose), [22]. ►
Intermittent sticking tearing in the pit of the stomach (after
twenty-four hours), [9]. ► (Stitches in the pit of the stomach), [1].
ABDOMEN.
►
Hypochondria. ► A pressive
gnawing pain in the hepatic region, [6]. ►
Pressure in the hepatic region anteriorly near the pit of the stomach,
causing restlessness, [2]. ► Umbilicus and Sides. ► Sticking jerks shoot from below the
umbilicus to the mons veneris, on expiration, that takes away her
breath; on hard pressure she feels nothing, [3]. ► Violent
stitches in the abdominal muscles of the umbilical fossa, obliging him
to retract the abdomen (after one hour), [9].
► Scraping and gnawing in the
umbilical region, intermingled with nausea (after six days), [3]. [150.]
► Coldness internally in the
umbilical region, and a sensation as if something there was becoming
loose, [6]. ►
Corrosive burning in the left abdominal region, [6]. ► Pushing
cutting griping, as from flatus, in both sides of the abdomen (after two
hours and three-quarters), [7]. ► General Abdomen. ► Abdomen distended, in the evening (third
day), [21]. ►
Emission of very offensive flatus (after two hours and a quarter), [7]. ►
Easy emission of flatus, [6]. ► Emission of flatus, with a sensation as
if stool would follow (after thirty-nine hours), [7]. ►
Rumbling in the lower abdomen (after one hour), [5]. ►
Frequent rumbling and gurgling in the abdomen, [13]. ►
Heaviness in the abdomen, [13]. [160.] ►
Griping in the abdomen, with eructations, in the morning, on rising
(fourth day), [21a]. ► Pressure in the abdomen, followed by
great emptiness, [13]. ► Burning in the abdomen, [13]. ►
Agreeable coolness in the abdomen and chest, [6]. ►
Sticking extending upward in the abdomen whenever she sat down, [1]. ►
A tensive pressure in the whole lower abdomen, extending from the
umbilicus downward, at night, as if the menses would come on, aggravated
by pressure, [3]. ► Pinching-cutting pain, with discomfort,
in the lower abdomen, as after taking cold (after forty-eight hours), [5].
RECTUM AND ANUS.
►
*Tearing in the rectum and urethra, while urinating (after
two days), [2]. ► Tearing stitches in the rectum, while sitting,
[2]. ►
*Frequent pressure for stool, with prolapsus of the rectum,
that after this frequently took place, with a sensation of pressure,
also with emission of much flatus; the
slightest stooping, and still more crouching down, caused the rectum to
protrude (after seventy-two hours); for several days
afterwards the rectum remained protruding all the time, and though it
could be reduced easily and without pain, yet it immediately protruded
again, [2]. [170.] ►
Constant desire for stool, which however, is softer than usual, and yet
after the stool there is dragging and urging (after twenty-four hours), [5].
STOOL.
►
The stool large and evacuated with difficulty, as from loss of
peristaltic action of the rectum, during the first twenty-four hours, [6]. ►
A second soft stool, evacuated with great difficulty on account of a
relaxed and inactive condition of the rectum, preceded by a sensation of
nausea in the abdomen (after one hour and a half), [2]. ► Soft
stool, [12]. ►
Evacuation of blood during a stool, [1].
► Stool consisting of a few hard
fæces, almost like sheepdung (after forty hours), [7]. ► The
stool on the second day was larger than usual, [2].
URINARY ORGANS.
►
Drawing pressure in the region of the kidneys, extending along the
loins, while sitting, [2]. ► Pain over kidneys more marked, with
urgent desire to urinate (after third dose), [22]. ►
Immediately after urinating it seems on every step as if the bladder
were full and moved up and down, not while sitting (after forty-eight
hours), [3]. [180.] ►
Pressure in the region of the neck of the bladder, like a painful
closure of it, soon after urinating (after twenty-four hours), [9]. ►
*Great pressure to urinate, as though the bladder were constantly full,
yet but little urine is passed, and micturition is followed by dragging,
as though much should be passed, which however does not occur,
for several days (after a few hours), [3].
► *It seems as though she could no longer
hold her water, with an excessively urgent desire, even if
there was only a single drop of urine; during and after micturition very
painful burning in the vagina and long continued pressure; during the
night, however, she could sleep quietly as usual, but in the morning she
was obliged to urinate in the same manner as on the previous day, [3]. ►
Frequent and copious micturition, without painful sensation, [12]. ►
The urine, when passed, gave a strong odor of rue (after third dose), [22]. ►
In the aggregate little urine is passed; after urinating, pressure and
dragging in the bladder, without renewed micturition (second and third
days), [2]. ►
Urine deep-yellow, in the evening (second day), [21a].
SEXUAL ORGANS.
►
Male. ► Nightly emissions,
without amorous dreams, [7]. ► Great, increased sexual desire, [3]. ►
Female. ► In the evening
she was seized with violent pains, that gradually increased, and were
followed by the discharge of blood from the vagina and miscarriage after
forty-eight hours, [17]. [190.] ►
Miscarriage of dead children at about seven months; the uterus was found
well contracted; this was followed after two days by violent fever and
delirium, with spasms, succeeded by great exhaustion and vomiting of
bile; for five days the patient lay in a condition resembling partial
intoxication, with contracted pupils; swollen coated tongue; slight
delirium and very slow pulse, only 30 to the minute, and at times
convulsive spasms of the arms; vomiting and painful tension in the
epigastric region; the abdomen was soft and painless; the uterus
contracted, though the lochiæ soon ceased to flow; after a while the
lochiæ returned; the patient gradually recovered, though she was very
weak for a long time, and the great slowness of the pulse, continued for
many days, [18]. ► Miscarriage occurred on the sixth day,
followed by a long slow recovery, [19].
RESPIRATORY ORGANS.
►
Pain, as from a blow or bruise, in the larynx, [6]. ►
Forcible cough, in the evening, immediately after lying down, with much
expectoration of stringy mucus; the cough returned several times at
night, but only for a short time and less violently; when the cough was
very violent, it seemed as if the stomach turned over and as if he would
vomit, [12]. ► *He was awakened about midnight by a choking
cough, with scraping in the upper part of the chest, without
pain, and with a slight infrequent expectoration, [12]. ► Dyspnœa
and shortness of breath, [12].® 2000
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