Common names: Rue; (G.) Raute.
Introduction
Ruta graveolens, Linn. Natural order: Rutaceae. Preparation: Tincture of the whole plant.
Mind
Good humor. Very frequent anxiety, with despondent thoughts and fear. Very anxious all day, as though he had done something wrong; if any one only opened the door he feared that someone had come to arrest him. Morose, peevish, if everything did not please him (after twenty-four hours). Morose, peevish, fretful.
Very ill-humored in the afternoon and evening; he was melancholy, dissatisfied with life, and sad. Fretful, ill- humored, and irresolute. Peevish and mistrustful all day; he no longer trusted his best friends, he thought that he was constantly deceived (after forty hours). Inclined to contradict.
Quarrelsome, inclined to anger and vexation. Much dissatisfied by everything that happened to him, and especially with whatever he did himself, and great inclination to weep.
Indifference. She was disinclined for every work, and took no interest in anything; she felt uncomfortable. Thought and comprehension slow. Slight confusion of ideas (after second dose). 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). Stupefaction, from which, however, she could easily be aroused.
Head
Confusion and vertigo. Confusion of head, a kind of senselessness. Sudden violent vertigo while sitting; everything turned in a circle; followed by glowing heat of the cheeks (after twelve hours). Violent vertigo, in the morning, on rising from bed; he would have fallen forward if he had not steadied himself (after twenty-four hours). 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).
General Head. Dullness of the head. Head dull, heavy, with tension in the forehead (fifth day). In the head and in the body a sensation as though he had not slept enough. Heaviness of the head (second day). Persistent heaviness of the head, especially in the forehead, as though a heavy weight were lying on it (after three- quarter of an hour). Tensive pain in the brain (second day). Rhythmical pressive pain in the head.
Confused pressure in the whole head. Oppressive feeling in head (after second dose). Pressive headache over the whole brain, in the morning, after rising (after twenty-four hours).
Headache, like a pressure over the whole brain, with great activity of nervous system, and uneasiness in the whole body, that did not permit him to sit still, after dinner. Headache from reading a little (third day). Sense of uneasiness in head (after first dose). Burning compressing pain on the head externally, stupefying him (after eleven hours). Forehead. Dulness in the brain, in the forehead, throbbing pain, in the evening, before going to sleep, and still worse in the morning, on waking from sleep that was too sound. Gnawing pressive headache in the right side of the forehead. Pressure in the forehead above the root of the nose (after two hours and a half).
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). Sticking and pressure above the left eyebrow (second day). Pressive sticking pain over the whole forehead, especially when coughing (after two hours). A sticking-drawing pain in the frontal eminence (second day).
Stitches in the left frontal bone, only while reading (second day). Intermittent boring stitches in the right side of the forehead (while sitting). (after three hours and three- quarters). Temples. Pain as from a fall, in the periosteum, extending from the temporal bones to the occiput. Dull tearing in the temporal bones (after one hour). 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). Occiput. Pressure in the occiput (third day). Pressure, heaviness, and tension in the occiput (fourth day). Pressive pain in the occiput (fourth day). Beating pressive pain in the side of the occiput. External Head. Erysipelas on the forehead.
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. 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). 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. (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 the finger, at first painful to touch). Biting itching, as from vermin, over the whole scalp, especially on the left side and one the occiput, only disappearing after scratching a great deal, but always returning (after thirty-eight hours). On the left side of the scalp biting itching as from lice, that obliged scratching, and frequently returned (after thirty- six hours). Tensive drawing pain, as from a blow or thrust, externally on the side of the head. Sticking drawing externally in the vertex (after twenty-four hours).
Eyes
Involuntary starting at a single point, with contracted pupils (after half an hour). Burning beneath the left eye (after three hours). Sensation of heat and fire in the eyes, and aching while reading (in the evening, by the light). 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. Pressure on the inner surface of the left eye, with profuse lachrymation, in the open air (after forty- eight hours). The eyes feel fatigued, as after reading too long.
Weary pain in the eyes while reading (second day). Brow and Orbit. Twitching and visible jerking in the muscles of the eyebrows (after twelve hours). Spasm of the lower portion of the orbicularis palpebrarum, which is drawn back and forth. Pressure deep in the orbits (second day). Pain as from a bruise in the orbicular cartilages. Pressure on the upper margin of the orbits, with tearing in the eyeball. Lid. Mucus in both canthi, in the morning, constantly reproduced after wiping it away. 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. Sticking and biting as from dust in the canthi, in the morning (fifth day). Burning and smarting in the outer canthi (fourth day). (Itching and biting in the lids, in the evening), (fourth day). Itching in the inner canthi and on the lower lids, that after rubbing become a biting, so that the eye filled with water (after a quarter of an hour). 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). Pupil. Pupils contracted (after two hours and a half). Vision. He sees distant objects more distinctly than usual; (the prover was myopic). Vision very weak, as if the eyes were excessively strained, two mornings in succession (first and second days).
Objects seem dim before the eyes, as if a shadow were flitting before it. (Flitting points before the eyes). It seems as though it were not bright enough before the eyes.
Ears
When he shakes the head it seems as though something were rolling back and forth in the ear. Pain in the ears, as from a hard pressure on them. Sensation in the ear as if one were digging about with a blunt piece of wood, a kind of scraping pressure (after two hours). Tickling, hot pressure in the ears, aggravated by inserting the finger. Itching stitches within the right ear (after three hours).
Nose
Frequent sneezing. Frequent sneezing and yawning, with chilliness (third day). (Nosebleed). (Blood is blown from the nose all day).
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. Sharp pressure on the root of the nose (after thirty-six hours).
Face
A numb pain, as after a blow, in the bones of the face, extending into the teeth and lower jaw. Cramp like tearing pain on the malar bone, with pressive stupefying headache in both sides of the forehead (after five hours). Pain as from a blow or fall below the mastoid process. A biting gout like pain in both cheeks. Pinching in the left cheek (after twenty-four hours).
Mouth
Digging pain in the lower teeth. Bleeding of the gums on brushing or picking the teeth. 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). Tongue red on the margins. Tongue red and swollen. Dryness of the mouth. The mouth is dry and glutinous at times. Pressive pain in the hard palate, more when not than when swallowing (after two hours). Sensation of soreness and pressure on the root of the palate, only when swallowing. Great salivation. Food has a wooden taste, as if dry and tasteless (second day).
Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.
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