24) RUTA GRAVEOLENS.

This remedy is useful because it acts on the periosteum, cartilages, eyes and uterus.  It is useful whenever there is a tendency to formation of deposits in the periosteum, tendons, and joints and around the joints especially around the wrist.  It suits subjects, where all the parts of the body appear bruised.

 It is a useful remedy for the over-strain of the ocular muscles.  It is useful to combat eyestrain followed by a headache, where the eyes are red, hot or painful, worse after reading or sewing.  It suits subjects who have disturbances of accommodation of vision.

 This remedy suits subjects, who have INTENSE LASSITUDE, WITH WEAKNESS AND DESPAIR.

 It is useful whenever the bone is bruised or injured.

 It is useful to combat alcoholic hangover.

It suits subjects who have a bruised feeling on their tarsal cartilage.

 It is useful whenever the subject feels a pressure over the eyebrows.

 TIPS FROM THE MASTERS…

I have used RUTA generally in the 50M potency in GANGLION. It will remove it almost without fail.

Dr. Woodbury, M.D.

For Tennis elbow: RUTA GRAVEOLENS.

Dr. Kent.

RUTA ointment used in conjunction with infrared radiation is useful in Teno-synovitis.

Pilgrim.

RUTA is a useful remedy for complaints arising out of straining flexor tendons.

Dr. C.C. Boericke, M.D.

23) RHUS TOXICODENDRON.

This remedy has a profound effect on the skin, joints and mucous membranes. Rhus tox affects fibrous tissues, joints, tendon sheaths and aponeurosis etc.

 This remedy suits subjects, who have ailments coming on after strains, over-lifting, getting wet and while perspiring. This remedy suits subjects who get rheumatism in the cold season. 

 This remedy also suits subjects, who are extremely restless with continued change of position. It suits subjects, whose sensorium is cloudy with a great sense of apprehension in the night, which forces the subject out of bed in the night.

 This remedy suits subjects who have a headache in the back of the head and have humid eruptions in the scalp with great itching.

 This remedy suits subjects, who have coryza with sneezing while getting wet.

 This remedy is useful in facial neuralgia with comes on while getting cold.

 It suits subjects, who have pain and stiffness in the small of the back, who are better with motion or while lying down on something hard and who are worse while sitting up.

 This remedy suits subjects who have tearing pains in the ligaments, tendons, fascia and rheumatic pains in the nape of the neck, loins and extremities, which is better with motion. 

 This remedy also suits subjects who have Sciatica, which is worse in cold damp weather and at night.

 This remedy suits subjects, who have fever and who are restless, and whose bowels may be loose, and those who feel cold as if cold water were poured over the subject.

 This remedy suits subjects, who have a skin that is red, swollen, intensely itching, vesicular eruption. This remedy is also useful in urticaria, pemphigus, erysipelas and cellulitis.

 This remedy is considered to be specific for Typhoid, Dengue fever, Erysipelas, Influenza, Measles, Septicemia and Rheumatic fever.

This remedy suits subjects, who sleep with dreams of great exertion, and get up groggy, as if in a stupor, and, are sleepless before midnight.

 This remedy suits subjects who are worse from sleep, cold wet rainy weather and after rain in the night, after drenching, while lying on the back or on the right side.

 This remedy suits subjects who are better in warm dry weather, motion, walking, change of position, rubbing, warm applications, and from stretching the limbs.

 TIPS FROM THE MASTERS…

 After a Cataract surgery, RHUS TOX is beneficial to control the threatened Iritis and the formation of pus.

Dr. Dewey, M.D.

RHUS TOX is the Homeopathic knife in Appendicitis.

Dr. Biegler.

RHUS TOX has been a remarkably efficient in relieving the soreness, restlessness and other distress after operation involving the right lower quadrant.

Dr. Stearns, M.D.

RHUS TOX is the best prophylactic for cases of surgery.  It should be given for 48 hours in the 30^th dilution every 3 hours.  It will prevent sepsis.

Dr. R. B. Das.

In any inflammation of the eye following cataract extraction, RHUS TOX is a most valuable remedy and is given as soon as the patient begins to complain of pain, accompanied by lachrymation and puffiness of the lids.

Dr. Norton, M.D.

RHUS TOX rarely fails in chronic cases of SCIATICA.

Dr. Ruddock, M.D.

RHUS TOX will enable persons to withstand muscular fatigue.

Dr. E. A. Farrington, M.D.

RHUS TOX is an excellent remedy for barber’s itch. It should be tried first before resorting to any other remedy.

Dr. R. B. Das.

Skin diseases alternating with Dysentery or Asthma: RHUS TOX.

Dr. Tyler, M.D.

The specific remedy for lumbago is not PULSATILLA, as was formerly supposed, but RHUS TOX; so far I have cured about every case that I have had to treat with RHUS TOX in 3 or 4 days, except perhaps 2 or 3 cases where I had to complete the cure with PULSATILLA.

Dr. Jahr.

22) PHYTOLACCA.

IT IS A USEFUL REMEDY FOR DISEASES OF THE TESTICLES.IT IS ALSO USEFUL FOR TUMORS OF THE BREASTS.

IT IS USEFUL REMEDY IN TONSILLITIS.

It is a wonderful remedy for the breasts and testicles.

 It is useful in female subjects, who have breasts that are hard, inflamed and sensitive.  It is especially useful when the breasts are painful and are of a purple hue.  It is useful in breast abscess with inflammation of the breasts.  It is a useful remedy when the mother experiences pain in the nipples radiating to the rest of the body, while nursing the child.

It is useful in benign as well as cancerous tumors of the breasts with enlarged axillary glands.

It is also useful in painful indurations and the swelling of the testicles.

 It is useful when the throat in painful, bluish red with much pain in the root of the tongue with swollen tonsils.

 It is also a useful remedy in right-sided ovarian pain.

 TIPS FROM THE MASTERS…

 I have the experience with a few cases of abscessed breasts and every patient who has been prescribed for without operation has done better than have those who were incised. PHYTOLACCA is almost a specific for mastitis, where an abscess is threatening.  It is a remedy to keep in mind where the abscess has formed and the breast has been incised.

Dr. G.B. Strearns, M.D.

 For sore throat accompanying epidemic Influenza and for Influenza itself, even the characteristic toothache, PHYTOLACCA is often specific.

Dr. Ruddock, M.D.

I find Phytolacca very useful in Fibro-adenoma of the breast and in non-malignant affections of the breasts.  It is useful in sore throat, when the tonsils are congested and purple in color, especially when the right tonsil is involved with a difficulty in swallowing.

21) NUX VOMICA.

THIS REMEDY SUITS IRRITABLE BUSINESSMEN WHO ARE UNDER CONSTANT STRESS.

 It is frequently the first remedy indicated after much overdosing of allopathic medication and it helps establishing a kind of equilibrium of forces and counteracts the deleterious effects of many remedies.

 It is a useful remedy for the modern day stress.  It suits persons with sedentary habits, who undergo mental exertion, loss of sleep, are anxious and full of worries.

 It is typically indicated when the subject is thin, spare, quick, active, nervous and irritable, offended even by harmless words with an inclination to commit suicide, but is afraid to die. 

 This remedy suits persons who are excited or angered easily and cannot bear contradiction.

It suits subjects who drink a lot of coffee, wine, tobacco, spicy food, after eating in excess.

 It also suits subjects, who are fond of rich and stimulating food.  It also suits persons who have a tendency to faint from odors

It suits dyspeptic subjects who have an irritable temper.

It is useful in subjects, who have a headache in the occipital region, and are worse in the morning after mental exertion, ingestion of tobacco, alcohol and coffee.

 It suits subjects whose nose is stuffed up in the night and who suffer from a stuffed up cold, which is worse from exposure to dry cold atmosphere.  It is useful in fluent daytime cold with a stuffed up nose in the night.

 This remedy is useful in infants who have a cold, which stuffs their nose. 

 It is useful in flatulence with colic causing an upward pressure and a shortness of breath and desire for stool. 

 It suits subjects who are constipated with an ineffectual urging, which is incomplete and unsatisfactory, and there is a constant feeling as if a part of the stool remained un-expelled.  It suits subjects, who pass small quantities of stool.  It suits subjects who have alternate constipation with diarrhea after the abuse of purgatives.  It is useful in subjects, who have diarrhea after debauchery, with a constant uneasiness in the rectum.

It is a useful remedy for removing the bad effects of sexual excesses and constrictive pain in the testicles due to an inflammation of the testicles (orchitis).

 It is useful in subjects, who cannot sleep after 3 a.m. till the morning. It also suits such subjects, who awaken with a wretched feeling, and are drowsy after meals and better after a short nap.

 It suits subjects who are worse in the morning from mental exertion, after eating, touch, spices, stimulants, narcotics, dry weather.

 It suits persons who are better after a refreshing nap, evening, while at rest and in damp and wet weather.

TIPS FROM THE MASTERS…

I think for the ordinary acute attack of indigestion due to an indiscretion of diet, NUX VOMICA is almost a specific especially if the indication has been particularly marked.

Dr. D. M. Borland, M.B., Ch.B.

NUX VOMICA is almost a specific in influenza if given early it averts the disease.

Dr. Younan, M.B., C.M.

NUX VOMICA is often indicated in cough and diarrhea after previous use of so-called cough mixtures, all of which most generally contain opiates.

Dr. C.G. Raue, M.D.

In sleeplessness of hypochondriac irritable patients troubled with vertigo and easily fatigued with mental exercise, NUX VOMICA is of great value; it quiets the nervous system and produces sleep.

Dr. Small.

When you don’t know what to give, give NUX VOMICA.

An old Maxim.