Ruta graveolens - 4.3.21

homoeopathic drug picture - ruta graveolens

1. Dr. Rubina Subhani
Department of Practice of Medicine
PG Part I
SKHMCH, Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu
RUTA
GRAVEOLENS

2. SOURCE : VEGETABLE KINGDOM
SYNONYMS : RUE, BITTER HERB
FAMILY : RUTACEAE
PROVER :DR. SAMUEL
HAHNEMANN
PARTS USED : TINCTURE OF
WHOLE FRESH PLANT

3. AILMENTS FROM
INJURIES TO BONE
FRACTURES
SPRAINS
OVEREXERTION OF EYES
BRUISES

4. SPHERE
OF
ACTION
PERIOSTEUM
CARTILAGES
UTERUS
EYES

5. PHYSIO-PATHOLOGICAL CHANGES
•Acts on fibrous tissues, joints producing rheumatism.
•Acts on bones, fibrous tissue, wrists causing deposits or nodes in the
periosteum, tendons and joints.

6. CHARACTERISTIC MENTAL SYMPTOMS
•ANXIETY, as from a troubled
conscience

7. •Has disposition to quarrel and to contradict,
•Patient is cross and suspicious, imagines he was always being deceived.

8. •Dissatisfied with himself and others, disposed to weep.
•Melancholy and moral dejection towards the evening

9. •Slowness of conception
•Frequent absence of mind

10. CHARECTERISTIC PHYSICAL GUIDING
SYMPTOMS

11. HEAD
Pain as from a nail; after excessive
intoxicating drinks.

12. 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. Pressure over eyebrow. Asthenopia.

14. STOMACH
•Gastralgia of aching, gnawing
character.

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

16. RECTUM
•Difficult feces, evacuated only with
straining.
•Constipation, alternating with
mucous, frothy stools; discharge of
blood with stool.
•Prolapsus ani every time the bowels
move.
•Frequent, unsuccessful urging to
stool. Protrusion of rectum when
stooping.

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

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

19. EXTREMITIES
•Spine and limbs feel bruised.
•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.
•Hamstrings feel shortened (Graph).
•Aching pain in tendo-Achilles.
•Thighs pain when stretching the limbs. Pain in bones of feet and ankles.
•Great restlessness.

20. RASH RACER
R - Ruta Graveolens has Lameness after sprains, especially of wrists and ankles
(chronic sprains, Bovista, Stron. ).
A - Aching in and over eyes, with blurred vision, as if they had been strained.
S -Scrofulous exostosis; bruises and other mechanical injuries of bones and
periosteum; sprains; periostitis; erysipelas; fractures, and especially
dislocations ( Symphytum ).
H - Hand with sore pains with flat smooth warts.

21. R - Restless, turns and changes position frequently when lying ( Rhus ).
A- Amblyopia or asthenopia from over-exertion of eyes or anomalies of
refraction
C- Constipation; from inactivity, or impaction following mechanical injuries
( Arnica )
E - Eyes burn, ache, ; hot, like balls of fire; spasms of lower lids.
R - , immediately on attempting a
passage.
Ruta Graveolens has Prolapse of rectum

22. IMPORTANT CHARECTERISTIC FEATURES
ALL COMPLAINTS BROUGHT ON
FROM STRAINING THE PARTS
MORE OF A TENDINOUS
CHARACTER, FIBROUS TISSUE,
FLEXOR TENDONS
PERIOSTEAL INJURIES WHERE THE
FLESH IS THIN OVER THE BONE e.g.
TIBIA
1. INJURIES

23. FOR
AFFECTIONS OF
EYES DUE TO
OVERUSE,
WATCHMAKING,
SEWING
ACHING IN THE
EYES AS IF
STRAINED EYES
BURN , FEEL
STRAINED, LIKE
BALLS OF FIRE
AMBLYOPNIA
OR ASTHENOPIA
FROM OVER
EXERTION OF
EYES
ANOMALIES OF
REFRACTION,
OVER READING
AT NIGHT
2. EYE
AFFECTIONS

24. GENERAL MODALITIES
< Overexertion, injury, sprains, eyestrains, cold air, damp wind, sitting,
stooping, during mens, exertion,ascending or descending steps
> lying on back, warmth, motion, rubbing, scratching.

25. REMEDY RELATIONSHIP
•COMPARE: Ratanhia; Carduus. Rectal (irritation); Jaborandi; Phyt;
Rhus; Sil; Arn.
•ANTIDOTED BY - Camph
•ANTIDOTAL TO - Merc
•COMPATIBLE WITH - Arn, Calc, Caust

26. COMPARISON
•EYE STRAIN FROM SEWING, WORSE IN WARM ROOM, BETTER IN
OPEN AIR : Nat- M, Arg-N.
•WALKING AMELIORATES ALL SYMPTOMS : Iod, Rhus-T, Ferr-p.
•STRAIN OR INJURIES OF SINGLE MUSCLES : Rhus-T