# Ruta Graveolens ## Remedy Classification - **Type:** Homeopathic Remedy - **Miasm:** Psoric Miasm - **Temperament:** Chilly - **Aggravation Time:** Morning ## Keynote Indications Source: Derived from the whole fresh plant of Ruta graveolens, commonly known as rue or garden. rue, a perennial herb in the Rutaceae family, prepared for homeopathic use through trituration and. serial dilution to enhance therapeutic action while eliminating material toxicity, in accordance with. homeopathic pharmacopeia standards. Traditional Context: Historically employed in homeopathy for musculoskeletal, ocular,. neurological, and psychological disorders , particularly those involving sprains, eye strain, and. restlessness. It is noted for symptoms such as bruised pains, visual fatigue, and aggravation from. overexertion, often worsened by cold, damp weather, rest, or lying down, and ameliorated by. warmth, motion, or rubbing. Modern Context: Indicated for musculoskeletal conditions (e.g., tendonitis, sprains), ocular. conditions (e.g., eye strain, asthenopia), neurological conditions (e.g., sciatica, neuralgia), and. psychological conditions (e.g., generalized anxiety disorder, adjustment disorder). It suits patients. with acute or chronic symptoms characterized by bruised pains, eye strain, restlessness, stiffness,. or overexertion sensitivity , typically exacerbated by cold, damp weather, rest, overexertion, or. stress, and often seen in individuals with sensitive, restless constitutions. The remedy is particularly. relevant for those with musculoskeletal or ocular conditions, often presenting with symptoms like. tendon soreness or visual fatigue, commonly observed in patients with tendonitis, eye strain, or. sciatica triggered by overexertion, cold, or prolonged rest. COMMENTS - The vulnerary power of Ru ta does not appear to have been known before the provings were made, but an old use of the remedy for impaired sight due to eyestrain, cor responded to 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 objects 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).” Eyestrain, with burning and itching in the eyes. Eyestrain headaches (Onos.). Blurry vision. Contracted pupil. Eyeballs ache. Paralysis of the eye muscles and neuralgias. Facial paralysis from catching cold in robust, sanguine persons. Rheumatic paralysis of wrists and ankles. Affinity forthe joints, especially the tendons and ligaments. Joints feel weak and bruised. Chronic weakness and inflammation. Struc tural abnormalities. Torn or overstretched ligaments. Often ahistory of injury, remain ing weakness in injured spot. Often follows or is complementary to Rhus-t. Twisting injuries to the spine (Arn., Hy per., Rhus-t.). Wrenching injuries. Injuries to the shin and face. Injuries that are close to the bone. Bone injuries with tom ligaments, muscles o r nerves (Am., Calc-p., Symph.). Hard lump after injury (Am.). Ovemse of joints, particularly the wrists. Dislocated joints, or the tendency to dislo cate. Weak ligaments or joints. Carpal tunnel syndrome (Caust.). Shooting pain in wrist (Rhus-t., Hyper.). Chronic shortening of tendon due to ovemse. Fibrositis. Bursitis, tendonitis, from overuse. Chronic knee complaints. Frozen shoulder. Thickening of the periosteum or nodules after injury (Bellis). Stiff and aching (Am., Rhus-t.). Sharp pains (Hyper.). Deep, grinding pain. Sharp, tearing nerve pain. Drawing pain, as if area is being pulled shorter. Feeling of lameness ever since injury. Worse sitting or lying down. Chronic weakness after an injury. Gnawing, grinding pains, especially in the shoulder. Pain worse in cold, damp weather. Stiffness, worse in the morning, better from motion and heat (Rhus -t.). Coldness down the spine, leg or sciatic nerve. Tearing pain down the sciatic nerve. Great weakness, pain in limbs after a short walk. Limbs feel bmised, pain in small of back and loins. Tottering as if thighs were weak. Uneasiness and heaviness in legs, difficultly finding a comfortable position. All parts of the body on which he lies, even in bed, are painful as if bruised. Restlessness. Sore spot on sternu m. Pain below right scapula and stitches in small of back. Back ache. Lying on back ameliorates many conditions, has led to relief in cases of malignant disease of kidneys and bladder. Cramp in the tongue with embarrassed speech. Swollen tongue. Toothache with digging pain. Dry sockets, with achy pain. Slow pulse. Hangovers. Rhus poisoning, itching, inflammation, and rashes. Skin is red, swollen with watery vesicles. Rectal polyps. Constipation, since trauma to the area (Bell -p.), since childbirth (Sep.). Constipation from inactivity of rectum or impaction of feces following mechanical injuries. Hemorrhoids and impacted feces after an injury. Prolapse of the rectum after confinement. Prolapse is worse by stooping and crouching, comes on immediately on attempting a passage. Tearing stitches in rectum when sitting. Tearing in rectum and urethra while urinating. Sensation of nausea located in the rectum. Rushmore cured with one dose of Ruta 900c (Fincke) a case of prolapse preceding a very difficult stool. A prolonged use of Ruta 3x has cured ganglion in front of left wrist. Cooper said, “It certainly acts strongly on deposits of scirrhus material in both the breasts and in the vagina and sometimes lessens the size of these.” He used Ruta ointment, prepared by extracting the plant in warm Vaseline, as an application in broken cancer of the breast. Temperature - Coldness and shivering, with great thi rst. Cold shivers run over back. Coldness running over one side of head. Chills mostly left-sided, worse up and down back, shakes even near a warm stove. Heat of face and dull head. Frequent attacks of quick flushes of heat. Glowing heat on face, skin etc. Painful swelling of the spleen. Gnawing ache in region of liver. Gnawing and eating pain about navel. Sick feeling in abdomen followed by soft stools. Pinching pain in abdomen after bread and butter. Cancer of lower bowel. Colic in children, from worms. Appetite normal, but aversion to everything as soon as he begins to eat. Disgust at first mouthful with a sensa tion of fullness and satiety in abdomen. Great thirst during chill. Violent thirst for ice cold water. Headache from abuse of alcohol. Worse after eating bread, butter, eating meat, grapes, raw or indigestible food. ## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations) Worse from: Cold (weather, air, drinks), damp weather, rest, overexertion, lying down,. pressure, touch, reading, screen time, stress, morning, evening, solitude, prolonged focus. ## Symptoms by System ### Mind - Stupefaction. - Thought and compre hension slow. - Feeling of intense lassitude, weakness and despair. - Indifference. - Disinclined to work. - Quarrels and contradicts. - Inclined to anger and vexation. - Morose, peevish, fretful. - Disposed to weep. - Frequent anxiety, with despondent thoughts and fear. - Fear of death during fe ver. - Anxious restlessness. - Anxious all day, as though he had done something wrong. - Fear that someone will come to arrest him. - Melancholy, dissatisfied with life, and sad. - Dissatisfied with himself and others. - Mistrustful. - Suspicious, imagines that he is always being deceived. - Delusion someone is behind him. - Starting from sleep from slightest touch. - Desire for light. - Stupefaction. - Thought and compre hension slow. - Feeling of intense lassitude, weakness and despair. - Indifference. - Disinclined to work. - Quarrels and contradicts. - Inclined to anger and vexation. - Morose, peevish, fretful. - Disposed to weep. - Frequent anxiety, with despondent thoughts and fear. - Fear of death during fe ver. - Anxious restlessness. - Anxious all day, as though he had done something wrong. - Fear that someone will come to arrest him. - Melancholy, dissatisfied with life, and sad. - Dissatisfied with himself and others. - Mistrustful. - Suspicious, imagines that he is always being deceived. - Delusion someone is behind him. - Starting from sleep from slightest touch. - Desire for light. ### Vertigo - Whirling vertigo, which causes falling when rising in morning. - Vertigo when seated, when walking in open air. - Vision - Amblyopia dependent upon anomalies of refraction. - Amblyopia from writing by artificial light. - Disturbances of accommodation . - Obscuration of vision as if one had looked too long and intently at an object. - Blurred vision with burning, aching in eyes and strained feeling. - Blurred vision from fine sewing, reading too much, worse using eyes in evening. - Letters seem to run together. - Dim vision, as if a shadow were flitting before objects. - Green circle around light in evening. ### Head - Heat in head, with anxious restlessness. - Headachefrom eye-strain. - Stitches, worse reading. - Aches as if a nail is driven into it. - Pain as from a nail after exces sive intoxicating drinks. - Pressure over eyebrow. - Pulsative, pressive, in forehead. - Head externally painful, as if bruised or beaten. - Periosteum sore. - Erysipelas and swelling of forehead. - Erysipelas of scalp, arising from wounds. - Corrosive itching on scalp. - Humid scabs on head. - Heat in head, with anxious restlessness. - Headachefrom eye-strain. - Stitches, worse reading. - Aches as if a nail is driven into it. - Pain as from a nail after exces sive intoxicating drinks. - Pressure over eyebrow. - Pulsative, pressive, in forehead. - Head externally painful, as if bruised or beaten. - Periosteum sore. - Erysipelas and swelling of forehead. - Erysipelas of scalp, arising from wounds. - Corrosive itching on scalp. - Humid scabs on head. ### Eyes - Amblyopia. - Asthenopia. - Weakness of ciliary muscles. - Spots on cornea. - Eyes burn like fire. - Lachrymation in open air, not indoors. - Pressure deep in orbits. - Eyestrain with headaches. - Weary pain while reading. - Red, hot a nd painful from reading fine print, sewing (Nat -m., Arg- n.). - Itching inner canthi. - Tarsal cartilage feels bruised. - Spasm in lower eyelids, when it ceases, lachrymation starts. - Pres sure over eyebrow. ### Ears - Earache with scraping pressure. - Itching lancinations in ear. - Cartilages of ears as if bruised. - Pain in ear and under mastoid process as from a bruise. - Pain as from a blunt piece of wood. ### Face - Acne. - Acne rosacea. - Eruption of pimples on lips. - Lips dry and sticky. - Pain as if bruised in periosteum of facial bones. - Spasmodic tearing in cheekbone. - Itching and gnawing at face and on cheeks. - Coldness beneath left eye. - Erysipelas in forehead with swelling. - Facial paralysis after catching cold. ### Mouth - Woody taste. - Dryness in mouth and throat. - Mouth dry and glutinous. - Profuse salivation and swelling of tongue. - Cramp in tongue, causing embarrassment of speech. - Boring pains in lower teeth. - Gums bleed easily. - Nose - Pressive, hard aching at the root of nose, with nosebleed. - Perspiration on back of nose. - Perspiration - Cold sweat on face. - Perspires in morning in bed. - Sweats after walking in open air. ### Throat - Sensation as if a lump in throat on empty swallowing. - Larynx as if bruised. ### Chest - Short breath with tightness of chest. - Painful spot on sternum. - Sensation of cold ness or heat in chest. - Gnawing, biting and burning pains in chest. - Tuberculosis after mechanical injuries to chest. - Ill effects of mechanical injury to chest. - Constitutions - Suited to robust, bloody persons and corresponds to hemorrhages from nose (with pressure at root), gums, and rectum. - Anxious palpitations. - Pulse somewhat accelerated only during fever. - Cough with copious, thick, yellow expectoration, chest feels weak after. - Waking from cough, about midnight. - Violent cough, with expectoration of tough mucus and nausea. - Shortness of breath from tightness of chest. ### Stomach & Abdomen - Epigastric region sensitive. - Aching, gnawing pains in stomach. - Tension in stomach, better drinking milk. - Pains in stomach after eating bread or crude and indigestible food. - Burning, gnaw ing pain. - Dyspepsia caused by straining stomach when carrying heavy weight. - Frequent odorless eructations. - Hiccough, with depression. - Sudden nausea when eating, with vomiting of food. - Nausea felt in rectum. ### Urinary & Genital - Bladder - Constant urgi ng to urinate, can hardly retain urine. - If urine forcibly retained, could not pass afterwards, with severe pain. - Urging with scanty urination. - Sensations as if bladder were still full, after urinating. - Pressure in neck of bladder after urinating, painful closure (Apis). - Sensations as if bladder is mov ing up and down at every step. - Scanty, green urine. - Frequent urination at night. - Incontinence at night, or even during day when walking. - Causations - Ill effects of bruises, fractures, carrying heavy weights. - Bone or joint injuries. - Overuse of tendons. - Sprains. - Going up and down stairs causes hamstrings _________________ Ruta graveolens to feel shortened and weak. - Dyspepsia from straining stomach by carrying heavy weights. - Over-exertion of eyes. - Varicocele following a strain. - Injury to genitals, testes. - Hematocele in which the effusion is small and firmly coagulated. - Menses very irregular. - Menses scanty, lasting but two days, preceded and followed by leucorrhea. - Corrosive leucorrhea after irregular or suppressed menses. - Symptoms worse at menstrual period. - Vaginal pruritus. - Bearing-down pains. - Prolapsed uterus. - Metrorrhagia as a forerunner of miscarriage. - Miscarriage, at seven months. - Lameness and soreness all over with feeble contractions during labor. - Sterility. ### Extremities - Bruised pains in tendons, joints, or bones, with a sensation of soreness or aching,. - resembling tendonitis or sprains, worse with rest, cold, damp weather, overexertion,. - or touch, often with stiffness or weakness. - Joint stiffness or soreness, with a tendency to cracking or heaviness, resembling. - osteoarthritis, aggravated by cold, rest, or morning, often with difficulty initiating. - movement. - Periosteal pain or bone soreness, with a sensation of bruising or deep aching,. - resembling bone contusion, worse with pressure, cold, or lying on affected part, often. - with tenderness or swelling. - Tendency to musculoskeletal hypersensitivity, with aggravation in cold-damp or. - overexerted states. - Ocular:. - Eye strain or visual fatigue, with a sensation of burning, dryness, or heaviness,. - resembling asthenopia, worse with reading, screen time, close work, or overuse,. - often with blurred vision or headache. - Eye redness or irritation, with a tendency to lachrymation or soreness, resembling. - conjunctivitis, aggravated by cold, dust, or prolonged focus, often with sensitivity to. - light or strain. - Orbital pain or pressure, with a sensation of aching or tension, resembling ocular. - neuralgia, worse with cold, overexertion, or evening, often with twitching or spasms. - Tendency to ocular hypersensitivity, with aggravation in overused or cold states. - Neurological:. - Shooting or aching nerve pains, with a sensation of burning or electric shocks,. - resembling sciatica, worse with rest, cold, damp weather, or pressure, often with. - numbness or tingling. - Neuralgic pains in limbs or face, with a tendency to sharp or throbbing discomfort,. - resembling trigeminal neuralgia, aggravated by cold, touch, or stress, often with. - muscle twitching or spasms. - Restlessness or weakness, with a sensation of trembling or fatigue, resembling. - peripheral neuropathy, worse with cold, overexertion, or night, often with irritability. - or sensitivity. - Tendency to neurological hypersensitivity, with aggravation in cold or stressed states. - Psychological:. - Restlessness or agitation, with a sensation of unease or inability to relax, resembling. - generalized anxiety disorder, worse with stress, overexertion, cold, or night, often. - with pacing or trembling. - Ruta graveolens (Rue) 1696. - Anxiety or nervousness, with a tendency to worry or fearfulness, resembling. - adjustment disorder, aggravated by cold, emotional stress, or solitude, often with. - palpitations or insomnia. - Mental fatigue or confusion, with a sensation of dullness or overwhelm, resembling. - mild cognitive impairment, worse with stress, overexertion, or cold, often with. - difficulty concentrating. - Tendency to psychological hypersensitivity, with aggravation in stressed or. - overexerted states. ### Neck & Back - Backache from injury or strain, better pressure and lying on back. - Bruised pain in coccyx, sacrum. - Spine and limbs feel bruised. - Vertebrae slip out of place easily. - Coldness of spine, downwards. - Drawing in nape of neck and in the shoulder blades. - Tension and pressure in nape and shoulders. - Pain in small of back, groin and nape. - Weak, bruised feeling in lower back. - Lumbago worse morning before rising. - Stitches in lumbar region. ### Skin - Easily chaffed from walking, riding, also in children. - Flat, smooth, painful warts, on palms. - Warts with sore pains. - Corrosive itching over whole body, better scratching. - Itching of skin from every attempt to eat meat. - Erysipelas after mechanical injuries of hands. - Skin becomes easily chafed, from walking and riding. ### Sleep - Sleepiness during day, with stretching. - Yawns, stretches and extends hands. - Yawning and stretching, after eating. - Frequent waking at night, as if it were time to rise. - Vivid, confused dreams. ### Generalities - As if a nail were driven into head. - Head as if bruised or beaten. - Eyes, a s 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. - Pain as if from a fall in periosteum. - As if pain were in marrow of bone or as if bone were broken. - Wrists as if sprained. - 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.