Ruta Graveolens ruta.

Inclination to quarrel and contradict.
Dissatisfied with himself and others.
Anxious and low-spirited, with mental dejection.
Melancholy disposition toward evening.

Vertigo: in the morning when rising; when sitting; when walking in the open-air.

Headache: as if a nail were driven into head; like a stupefying pressure on whole brain; after excessive use of intoxicating drinks.
Pulsative, pressing pain in forehead.
Stitching, drawing pain from forehead to temples.
Heat in head, with much restlessness.

Large, painful swelling on scalp, as if originating in periosteum, sore to touch and preceded by rending pain.
Head externally painful, as if bruised or beaten.
Erysipelas of scalp, arising from wounds.
Humid scabs on head.
Periosteum, from temples to occiput, pains as if bruised.
Corrosive itching on scalp.

Itching at inner canthus and on lower lid, smarting after rubbing, eye becomes full of water.
Eyes burn, ache, feel strained, sight blurred, from fine sewing; reading too much, or otherwise overtaxing them; worse using them in evening.
Green halo around light in evening.
Spots on the cornea.
Eyes water in open air, not in-doors.
Spasms of lower eyelids, afterward lachrymation.

Scratching, pressure in ear, like from a blunt piece of wood.
Pain, as if bruised, in cartilage of ear, and under mastoid process.

Sweat on dorsum of nose.
Bleeding of nose, with pressure at root of nose.

Erysipelas and swelling on forehead.
Pain, as if bruised, in periosteum of facial bones.

Lips dry and sticky.

Gums painful, and bleed readily.

Sensation as from a lump in the throat on empty deglutition.

Thirst for cold water, in the afternoon.

After eating: sudden nausea; pinching in stomach after bread and butter; eructations and itching of skin after meat; replete as soon as he eats.
Intoxicating drinks: 3.

Hiccough, with depression.
Nausea, sudden, while eating, with vomiting of the food.

Burning or gnawing in stomach.
Dyspepsia from lifting heavy weights, with eructations and headache; cannot eat meat, it causes eructations and pruritus.

Gnawing, pressing pain in region of liver.
Painful swelling of spleen.

Gnawing pain about navel.
Colic in children, from worms.
Colic, with burning or gnawing pain.

Stool: soft, discharged with difficulty, from inactivity of the rectum; rectum protrudes immediately on attempting a passage; lumpy, slimy; or bloody, with much flatus, seemingly only flatus; empty eructations, distended abdomen; feces often escape when bending over.
Frequent, unsuccessful urging, with prolapsus ani.
Constipation, alternating with mucous, frothy stools.
Tearing stitches in rectum, when sitting.

Urging constantly, could hardly retain urine; if forcibly retained, it could not be voided; severe pains.
Urination involuntary at night, and during day when walking.
Pressure on bladder as if continually full; at every step after urination, she feels as if bladder were full and moving up and down.
Frequent pressure to urinate, with scanty, green urine.
Spasmodic stricture of neck of bladder.

Corrosive leucorrhœa after irregular or suppressed menses.

Metrorrhagia as a forerunner of miscarriage.
Prolapsus ani after confinement.

Sensation in larynx as from a bruise.

Short breath, with tightness of chest.

With copious expectoration of thick, yellow mucus, with weak feeling in chest after it.

Gnawing pain in chest.
Phthisis after mechanical injuries of chest.

Anxious palpitation.
Pulse unchanged; or, somewhat accelerated only during heat.

On sternum a painful spot; also painful pressure.

Pain on a spot, the size of palm of hand, below right scapula; worse in evening, after exertion, deep inspiration, or moving right arm; better from pressure.
Pain in back or coccyx, as if bruised.
Weakness in lumbar region; prolapsus recti.
Stitches in small of back when sitting, stooping or walking; better by pressure and when lying down.

Pain in left elbow-joint, as from a blow; arm weak.
Wrists feel as if sprained, stiff; worse in wet, cold weather.
Ganglion of the wrist.
Hands numb and tingle after exercise.
Flat, smooth warts on inside of hand.
Contraction of fingers.

Hip-bones feel bruised.
Anterior aspect of thighs feel bruised; painful to touch.
Shooting from back, down outside of left thigh on first moving or rising; hamstrings feel shortened. θ Sciatica.
Hamstrings feel shortened and weak, knees give way going up or down stairs.
Ankles pain after a sprain, or dislocation.
Pain in bones of feet, cannot step heavily thereon.

Rheumatism of right wrist and both feet; instep puffy; sour sweat.

Restless and weak, turns and changes place frequently, when lying.
Motion. 33. Exertion: 31, 32. Walking: 2, 21, 31, 36. Ascending and descending: 33. Stooping: 31. Bending Over: 20. Rising: 2, 33. Lying down: 31. Sitting: 2, 31. Rest: 44.

Tottering, as if thighs were weak; limbs pain when walking.

Much sleepiness during the day, with stretching.
Frequent waking at night.
Confused dreams.

Morning: 2, 40. Afternoon: 14, 40. Evening: 1, 5, 31.Night: 21, 37. Day: 21, 37.

Warmth of stove: 40. In bed: 40. In-doors: 5. Open air: 2, 5, 40. Wet, cold weather: 32, 44.

Chilly mostly left-sided; worse up and down back; shakes even near warm stove.
Chill with heat of face and violent thirst.
External and internal heat of face, with red cheeks and cold hands and feet.
Frequent attacks of quick flushes of heat.
Heat, mostly afternoons, with anxiety, restlessness and dyspnœa; but no thirst.
Sweat, cold on face; morning in bed.
General sweat, after walking in open air.

Right: 18, 31, 34. Left: 18, 32, 33, 40. Above downward: 33.

Bruised feeling all over, as from a fall or blow, worse in limbs and joints.
Bruises and other mechanical injuries of bones and periosteum; sprains; periostitis; erysipelas.
Bone-pains with burning and gnawing, worse during rest and damp weather.
Dropsy.

Touch: 4, 33. Pressure: 30, 31. Rubbing: 5. Riding: 46. Wounds: 4. Straining: 5. Mechanical injuries: 28, 44.

Itching of skin after eating meat.
Jaundice from liver complaints.
Ulcers and scabs on scalp, with copious discharge.
Skin becomes easily chafed, from walking and riding; also, in children.
Fistulous ulcers in lower legs.

Ruta antidotes Mercur.