Sweet Almond - Buds (also available: branch bark)

Indications: Hypertension

Psorinum is a homeopathic remedy used for the natural treatment of:

• ezcema
• psoriasis
• recurrent ear infections
• recurrent eye infections
• sinusitis
• allergies
• hayfever
• allergic rhinitis
• bedwetting
• headaches
• skin conditions 

From Boericke:

(Scabies Vesicle) The therapeutic field of this remedy is found in so-called psoric manifestations. Psorinum is a cold medicine; wants the head kept warm, WANTS WARM CLOTHING even in summer. EXTREME SENSITIVENESS TO COLD. DEBILITY, independent of any organic disease, especially the weakness remaining after acute disease. LACK OF REACTION, i. e., phagocytes defective; when well-chosen remedies fail to act. Scrofulous patients. Secretions HAVE A FILTHY SMELL. Profuse sweating. Cardiac weakness. Skin symptoms very prominent. Often gives immunity from cold-catching. Easy perspiration when walking. Syphilis, inherited and tertiary. OFFENSIVE DISCHARGES.

Mind
Hopeless; despairs of recovery. MELANCHOLY, deep and persistent; religious. Suicidal tendency.

Head
Awakens at night with pain as from blow on head. Chronic headaches; hungry during attacks; with vertigo. Hammering pain; brain feels too large; worse, change of weather. Dull, pressive pain in occiput. Humid eruption on scalp; hair matted. Hair dry.

Eyes
Agglutinated. Blepharitis. CHRONIC OPHTHALMIA, THAT CONSTANTLY RECURS. Edges of lids red. Secretion acrid.

Mouth
Obstinate rhagades at corners. Tongue, gums ulcerated; tough mucus of foul taste adheres to soft palate.

Nose
Dry, coryza, with stoppage of nose. Chronic catarrh; dropping from posterior nares. Acne rosacea.

Ears
Raw, red, OOZING SCABS AROUND EARS. Sore pain behind ears. Herpes from temples over ears to cheeks. OFFENSIVE DISCHARGE FROM ECZEMA AROUND EARS. INTOLERABLE ITCHING. Chronic otorrhoea. MOST FETID PUS FROM EARS, brownish, offensive.

Face
Swelling of upper lip. Pale, delicate. HUMID ERUPTION ON FACE. Sickly. Throat. Tonsils greatly swollen; painful swallowing, with pain in ears. Profuse, offensive saliva; tough mucus in throat. Recurring quinsy. ERADICATES TENDENCY TO QUINSY. Hawking up of cheesy, pea-like balls of disgusting smell and taste. (AGAR.)

Stomach
Eructations like bad eggs. VERY HUNGRY ALWAYS; MUST HAVE SOMETHING TO EAT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT. Nausea; vomiting of pregnancy. Pain in abdomen after eating.

Stool
Mucous, BLOODY, EXCESSIVELY FETID, DARK FLUID. Hard, difficult stool, with blood from rectum and burning piles. CONSTIPATION OF INFANTS, in pale, sickly scrofulous children.

Female
LEUCORRHAZA fetid, lumpy, with much backache and DEBILITY. Mammae swollen and painful. Pimples oozing an acrid fluid that burns and excoriates the glands.

Respiratory
Asthma, with dyspnoea; worse, sitting up; better, lying down and keeping arms spread wide apart. Dry, hard cough, with great weakness in chest. FEELING OF ULCERATION UNDER STERNUM. Pain in chest; better, lying down. Cough returns every winter, from suppressed eruption. HAY-FEVER returning irregularly every year.

Extremities
Weakness of joints, as if they would not hold together. ERUPTION AROUND FINGER-NAILS. Fetid foot-sweats.

Skin
Dirty, dingy look. Dry, lustreless, rough hair. INTOLERABLE ITCHING. Herpetic eruptions, especially on scalp and bends of joints with itching; worse, from warmth of bed. Enlarged glands. Sebaceous glands secrete excessively; oily skin. Indolent ulcers, slow to heal. Eczema behind ears. Crusty eruptions all over. Urticaria after every exertion. Pustules near finger-nails.

Fever
Profuse, offensive perspiration; night-sweats.

Sleep
Sleepless from intolerable itching. Easily startled.

Modalities
WORSE, coffee; Psorinum patient does not improve while using coffee. WORSE, changes of weather, in hot sunshine, from cold. DREAD OF LEAST COLD AIR OR DRAFT. BETTER, heat, warm clothing, even in summer.

Relationship
Complementary: SULPHUR. Compare: PEDICULUS-Head-louse-(psoric manifestations in children. Eruption on dorsum of hands, feet, neck. Prurigo; pellagra. Unusual aptitude for study and work). PEDICULUS (Cooties) transmit typhus and trench fever.) In lack of reaction compare CALCAREA and NATRUM ARS. GAERTNER. (Pessimistic, lack of confidence, subjective troublesome eye symptoms, fear of heights. Urticaria. Use 30th and 200th. (Wheeler.)

Dose
Two hundredth and higher potencies. Should not be repeated too often. PSORINUMrequires something like 9 days before it manifests its action, and even a single dose may elicit other symptoms lasting for weeks. (Aegedi.)

Pulsatilla is a homeopathic remedy used for the natural treatment of :

• depression
• changeable moods
• PMS
• period pain
• menstrual pain/cramps
• headaches
• colds and flus
• conjunctivitis
• pink eye
• sinusitis
• chicken pox
• anxiety
• ear infections
• otitis media
• labour pains
• styes 

From Boericke:

(Wind Flower) The weather-cock among remedies. The disposition and mental state are the chief guiding symptoms to the selection of Pulsatilla. It is pre-eminently a female remedy, especially for mild, gentle, yielding disposition. Sad, crying readily; weeps when talking; CHANGEABLE, contradictory. THE PATIENT SEEKS THE OPEN AIR; ALWAYS FEELS BETTER THERE, even though he is chilly. Mucous membranes are all affected. DISCHARGES THICK, BLAND, AND YELLOWISH-GREEN. Often indicated after abuse of Iron tonics, and after badly-managed measles. SYMPTOMS EVER CHANGING. THIRSTLESS, PEEVISH, AND CHILLY. When first serious impairment of health is referred to age of puberty. Great sensitiveness. Wants the head high. Feels uncomfortable with only one pillow. Lies with hands above head.

Mind
Weeps easily. Timid, irresolute. Fears in evening to be alone, dark, ghosts. Likes sympathy. Children like fuss and caresses. Easily discouraged. Morbid dread of the opposite sex. Religious melancholy. Given to extremes of pleasure and pain. Highly emotional. Mentally, an April day.

Head
Wandering stitches about head; pains extend to face and teeth; vertigo; better in open air. Frontal and supraorbital pains. Neuralgic pains, commencing in RIGHT TEMPORAL region, WITH SCALDING LACHRYMATION OF AFFECTED SIDE. HEADACHE FROM OVERWORK. Pressure on vertex.

Ears
Sensation as if something were being forced outward. Hearing difficult, as if the ear were stuffed. Otorrhoea. Thick, bland discharge; offensive odor. External ear swollen and red. Catarrhal otitis. Otalgia, worse at night. Diminishes acuteness of hearing.

Eyes
THICK, PROFUSE, YELLOW, BLAND DISCHARGES. Itching and burning in eyes. Profuse lachrymation and secretion of mucus. LIDS INFLAMED, AGGLUTINATED. STYES. Veins of fundus oculi greatly enlarged. Ophthalmia neonatorum. Subacute conjunctivitis, with dyspepsia; worse, in warm room.

Nose
Coryza; stoppage of right nostril, pressing pain at root of nose. Loss of smell. Large green fetid scales in nose. Stoppage in evening. Yellow mucus; abundant in morning. Bad smells, as of old catarrh. Nasal bones sore.

Face
Right-sided neuralgia, with profuse lachrymation. Swelling of lower lip, which is cracked in middle. Prosopalgia towards evening till midnight; chilly, with pain.

Mouth
Greasy taste. DRY MOUTH, WITHOUT THIRST; wants it washed frequently. Frequently licks the dry lips. CRACK IN MIDDLE OF LOWER LIP. YELLOW OR WHITE TONGUE, COVERED WITH A TENACIOUS MUCUS. Toothache; relieved by holding cold water in mouth. (COFF.) Offensive odor from mouth. (MERC; AUR.) Food, especially bread, tastes bitter. Much SWEET saliva. ALTERATIONS OF TASTE, bitter, bilious, greasy, salty, FOUL. Loss of taste. Desire for tonics.

Stomach
AVERSE TO FAT FOOD, WARM FOOD, AND DRINK. Eructations; TASTE OF FOOD REMAINS A LONG TIME; after ices, fruits, pasty. BITTER TASTE, diminished taste of all food. Pain as from subcutaneous ulceration. FLATULENCE. Dislikes butter. (SANG). Heartburn. Dyspepsia, with great tightness after a meal; must loosen clothing. THIRSTLESSNESS, with nearly all complaints. Vomiting of food eaten long before. Pain in stomach an hour after eating. (NUX.) Weight as from a stone, especially in morning on awakening. Gnawing, hungry feeling. (ABIES C.) Perceptible pulsation in pit of stomach. (ASAF.) All-gone sensation, especially in tea drinkers. Waterbrash, with foul taste in the morning.

Abdomen
Painful, distended; loud rumbling. Pressure as from a stone. Colic, with chilliness in evening.

Stool
Rumbling, watery; worse, night. NO TWO STOOLS ALIKE. After fruit. (Ars.; CHIN.) Blind haemorrhoids, with itching and sticking pains. Dysentery; mucus and blood, with chilliness. (MERC; RHEUM.) TWO OR THREE NORMAL STOOLS DAILY. Urine. Increased desire; WORSE WHEN LYING DOWN. Burning in orifice of urethra during and after micturition. Involuntary micturition at night, while coughing or passing flatus. After urinating, spasmodic pain in bladder.

Female
Amenorrhoea. (CIMICIF.; SENEC; POLYGON.) Suppressed menses from wet feet, nervous debility, or chlorosis. Tardy menses. Too late, scanty, thick, dark, CLOTTED, CHANGEABLE, INTERMITTENT. Chilliness, nausea, downward pressure, painful, flow intermits. Leucorrhoea acrid, burning, creamy. Pain in back; tired feeling. Diarrhoea during or after menses.

Male
Orchitis; pain from abdomen to testicles. Thick, yellow discharge from urethra; late stage of gonorrhoea. Stricture; urine passed only in drops, and stream interrupted. (CLEMAT.) ACUTE PROSTATITIS. Pain and tenesmus in urinating, WORSE LYING ON BACK.

Respiratory
Capricious hoarseness; comes and goes. DRY COUGH IN EVENING AND AT NIGHT; MUST SIT UP IN BED TO GET RELIEF; AND LOOSE COUGH IN THE MORNING, with copious mucous expectoration. PRESSURE UPON THE CHEST AND SORENESS. Great soreness of episgastrium. Urine emitted with cough. (CAUST.) Pain as from ulcer in middle of chest. Expectoration bland, thick, bitter, greenish. Short breath, anxiety, and palpitation when lying on left side. (PHOS.) Smothering sensation on lying down.

Sleep
WIDE AWAKE IN THE EVENING; first sleep restless. Wakes languid, unrefreshed. Irresistible sleepiness in afternoon. Sleeps with hands over head.

Back
Shooting pain in the nape and back, between shoulders; in sacrum after sitting.

Extremities
Drawing, tensive pain in thighs and legs, with restlessness, sleeplessness and CHILLINESS. PAIN IN LIMBS, SHIFTING RAPIDLY; tensive pain, LETTING UP WITH A SNAP. Numbness around elbow. Hip-joint painful. Knees swollen, with tearing, drawing pains. Boring pain in heels toward evening; SUFFERING WORSE FROM LETTING THE AFFECTED LIMB HANG DOWN. (VIPERA.) Veins in forearms and hands swollen. Feet red, inflamed, swollen. Legs feel heavy and weary.

Skin
Urticaria, after rich food, with diarrhoea, from delayed menses, worse undressing. MEASLES. Acne at puberty. Varicose veins.

Fever
CHILLINESS, even in warm room, WITHOUT THIRST. Chilly with pains, in spots, worse evening. Chill about 4 p.m. Intolerable burning heat at night, with distended veins; heat in parts of body, coldness in other. One-sided sweat; pains during sweat. EXTERNAL HEAT IS INTOLERABLE, VEINS ARE DISTENDED. During apyrexia, headache, diarrhoea, loss of appetite, nausea.

Modalities
WORSE, from heat, rich fat food, after eating, towards evening, warm room, lying on left or on painless side, when allowing feet to hang down. BETTER, open air, motion, cold applications, cold food and drinks, though not thirsty.

Relationship
PENTHORUM, often indicated after Pulsatilla in later colds. IONESIA ASOCA-Saraca indica-(AMENORRHEA, Menorrhagia-acts powerfully on female organs. Abdominal pain). ATRIPLEZ (Uterine symptoms, amenorrhoea; hysteria, coldness between shoulders, dislike of warm food, craves strange foods, palpitation, sleeplessness). PULSATILLA NUTTALIANA, identical effects. Compare: CYCLAMEN; KALI BICH.; KALI SULPH.; SULPHUR. PIMENTA-Allspice-(one-sided neuralgias, parts of body hot and cold). ANAGYRIS (headache, amenorrhoea). Complementary: COFFEA; CHAMOM.; NUX.

Dose
Third to thirtieth attenuation.

Oak - Buds

Indications: Stimulate adreno-cortical gland

Quercus pedunculata (robur) is a general tonic for the body. It is specifically an adrenal and sexual tonic and can stimulate testosterone production and stimulates the pituitary gland. It is an antiviral that can be used to treat recurring herpes. It also has healing properties assocated with the mouth and can heal gums. 

Gemmotherapy remedies are very close to herbal, so there can be counter-indications. Please consult your health care practitioner before using any of the gemmotherapy remedies, or ask one of our skilled homeopaths for advice!

Rheum is a homeopathic remedy used for the natural treatment of:

• colicky babies who are always screaming and crying
• vomiting that leaves a sour taste in the mouth
• diarrhea
• nausea and vomiting in pregnancy
• difficult teething in babies

From Boericke:

 (Rhubarb) Of frequent use in children with sour diarrhoea; difficult dentition. WHOLE CHILD SMELLS SOUR.

Mind
Impatient and vehement; desires many things and cries. (CINA.)

Head
Sweat on hairy scalp; constant and profuse. COOL SWEAT ON THE FACE, ESPECIALLY ABOUT MOUTH AND NOSE.

Mouth
Much saliva. Sensation of coolness in teeth. Difficult teething; restless and irritable. Breath smells sour. (CHAM.)

Stomach
Desire for various kinds of food, but soon tires of all. Throbbing in pit. Feels full.

Abdomen
Colicky pain about navel. Colic when uncovering. Wind seems to rise up to chest.

Rectum
Before stool, unsuccessful urging to urinate. STOOLS SMELL SOUR, pasty, with shivering and tenesmus, and burning in anus. Sour diarrhoea during dentition. Colicky, even ineffectual urging to evacuate altered faecal stools.

Modalities
WORSE, uncovering, after eating, moving about.

Relationship
Compare: MAG. PHOS.; HEP.; POD.; CHAM.; IPEC. Antidotes: CAMPH.; CHAM. Complementary: MAG. CARB.

Dose
Third to sixth potency.

Seasonal and environmental allergy symptoms

Sabalia® helps fight seasonal allergies (hay fever, pollen) and environmental allergies (dust, mould, pet hair).
Sabalia® tablets are antihistamine- and pseudoephedrine-free.

Sabalia® is easy to take without water and does not cause any drowsiness. Start at the first signs of allergy symptoms (runny nose, sneezing, itchy/watery eyes, scratchy throat) for maximum relief.

Manifestations: Allergic rhinitis is seasonal or perennial itching, sneezing, rhinorrhea, nasal congestion, and sometimes conjunctivitis, caused by exposure to pollens or other allergens. Patients have itching in the nose, eyes, or mouth, sneezing, rhinorrhea, and nasal and sinus obstruction.

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Rhus tox is a homeopathic remedy used for the natural treatment of:

• joint stiffness that is better with movement, when you "limber up"
• muscle stiffness
• arthritis
• poison ivy
• strains
• sprains
• sporsts injuries
• fibromyalgia
• rashes
• rosacea
• eczema
• bursitis
• tendonitis
• herpes
• hives

From Boericke:

 (Poison-ivy) The effects on the skin, rheumatic pains, mucous membrane affections, and a typhoid type of fever, make this remedy frequently indicated. Rhus affects fibrous tissue markedly- joints, tendons, sheaths-aponeurosis, etc., producing pains and stiffness. Post-operative complications. TEARING ASUNDER PAINS. Motion always "limbers up" the Rhus patient, and hence he feels better for a time from a change of position. Ailments from strains, overlifting, getting wet while perspiring. Septic conditions. Cellulitis and infections, carbuncles in early stages. (ECHINAC.) Rheumatism in the cold season. SEPTICEMIA.

Mind
Listless, sad. Thoughts of suicide. EXTREME RESTLESSNESS, VNTH CONTINUED CHANGE OF POSITION. Delirium, with fear of being poisoned. (HYOS.) SENSORIUM BECOMES CLOUDY. GREAT APPREHENSION AT NIGHT, CANNOT REMAIN IN BED.

Head
Feels as if a board were strapped on the forehead. Vertigo when rising. HEAVY head. Brain feels loose and as if struck against skull on walking or rising. Scalp sensitive-worse on side Iain on. Headache in occiput (RHUS RAD.); painful to touch. Pain in forehead and proceeds thence backward. Humid eruptions on scalp; itching greatly.

Eyes
Swollen, red, ïedematous; ORBITAL CELLULITIS. PUSTULAR INFLAMMATIONS. Photophobia; profuse flow of yellow pus. Oedema of lids, suppurative iritis. Lids inflamed, agglutinated, swollen. Old injured eyes. Circumscribed corneal injection. Intensive ulceration of the cornea. Iritis, after exposure to cold and dampness, and of rheumatic origin. Eye painful on turning it or pressing, can hardly move it, as in acute retrobulbar neuritis. Profuse gush of hot, scalding tears upon opening lids.

Ears
Pain in ears, with sensation as if something were in them. Lobules swollen. Discharge of bloody pus.

Nose
Sneezing; coryza from getting wet. Tip of nose red, sore, ulcerated. Swelling of nose. Nosebleed on stooping.

Face
JAWS CRACK WHEN CHEWING. Easy dislocation of jaw. (IGN.; PETROL.) SWOLLEN FACE, erysipelas. Cheek bones sensitive to touch. Parotitis. Facial neuralgia, with chilliness; worse, evening. CRUSTA LACTEA. (CALC.; VIOL. TRIC.)

Mouth
Teeth feel loose and long; gums sore. Tongue red and cracked; COATED, EXCEPT RED TRIANGULAR SPACE AT THE TIP; dry and red at edges. Corners of mouth ulcerated; fever-blistera around mouth and chin. (NAT. MUR.) PAIN IN MAXILLARY JOINT. Throat. Sore, with SWOLLEN GLANDS. Sticking pain on swallowing. Parotitis, left side.

Stomach
Want of appetite for any kind of food, with unquenchable thirst. BITTER TASTE. (CUPR.) Nausea, vertigo, and bloated abdomen after eating. DESIRE FOR MILK. Great thirst, with dry mouth and throat. Pressure as from a stone. (BRY.; ARS.) DROWSY AFTER EATING.

Abdomen
Violent pains, relieved by lying on abdomen. Swelling of inguinal glands. Pain in region of ascending colon. Colic, compelling to walk bent. Excessive distention after eating. Rumbling of flatus on first rising, but disappears with continued motion.

Rectum
Diarrhoea of blood, slime, and reddish mucus. Dysentery, with tearing pains down thighs. Stools of cadaverous odor. Frothy, painless stools. Will often abort a beginning suppurative process near the rectum. Dysentery.

Urinary
Dark, turbid, high-colored, scanty urine, with white sediment. Dysuria, with loss of blood.

Male
Swelling of glands and prepuce-dark-red erysipelatous; scrotum thick, swollen, OEDEMATOUS. ITCHING INTENSE.

Female
Swelling, with intense itching of vulva. Pelvic articulations stiff when beginning to move. Menses early, profuse, and prolonged, acrid. LOCHIA THIN, PROTRACTED, OFFENSIVE DIMINISHED (PULS.; SECALE), WITH SHOOTING UPWARDS IN VAGINA. (SEP.)

Respiratory
Tickling behind upper sternum. DRY, TEASING COUGH from midnight until morning, DURING A CHILL, OR WHEN PUTTING HANDS OUT OF BED. Haemoptysis from overexertion; blood bright red. Influenza, with aching in all bones. (EUP. PERF.) Hoarseness from overstraining voice. (ARN.) Oppression of the chest, cannot get breath with sticking, pains. Bronchial coughs in old people, worse on awaking and with expectoration of small plugs of mucus.

Heart
Hypertrophy from overexertion. Pulse quick, weak, irregular, intermittent, with numbness of left arm. TREMBLING AND PALPITATION WHEN SITTING STILL.

Back
Pain between shoulders on swallowing. PAIN AND STIFFNESS IN SMALL OF BACK; BETTER, MOTION, OR LYING ON SOMETHING HARD; worse, while sitting. Stiffness of the nape of the neck.

Extremities
Hot, painful swelling of joints. PAINS TEARING IN TENDONS, LIGAMENTS, AND FASCIM. Rheumatic pains spread over a large surface at nape of neck, loins, and extremities; better motion. (AGARIC) Soreness of condyles of bones. LIMBS STIFF, PARALYZED. THE COLD FRESH AIR IS NOT TOLERATED; IT MAKES THE SKIN PAINFUL. Pain along ulnar nerve. Tearing down thighs. SCIATICA; worse, cold, damp weather, at night. Numbness and formication, after overwork and exposure. Paralysis; trembling after exertion. Tenderness about knee-joint. Loss of power in forearm and fingers; crawling sensation in the tips of fingers. Tingling in feet.

Fever
Adynamic; restless, trembling. Typhoid; tongue dry and brown; sordes; bowels loose; great restlessness. Intermittent; chill, with dry cough and restlessness. During heat, uticaria. Hydroa. Chilly, as if cold water were poured over him, followed by heat and inclination to stretch the limbs.

Skin
Red, swollen; ITCHING INTENSE. Vesicles, herpes; URTICARIA; pemphigus; erysipelas; vesicular suppurative forms. Glands swollen. CELLULITIS. Burning eczematous eruptions with tendency to scale formation.

Sleep
DREAMS OF GREAT EXERTION. Heavy sleep, as from stupor. Sleepless before midnight.

Modalities
WORSE, during sleep, cold, wet rainy weather and after rain; at night, DURING REST, drenching, when lying on back or right side. BETTER, warm, dry weather, motion; walking, change of position, rubbing, warm applications, from stretching out limbs.

Rosemary - shoots

Indications: Liver and gall bladder drainer

Rosmarius is a well known liver and gall bladder drainer. It can balance the nervous system and improve memory. It has antioxidant properties and can protect liver cells from damage. It has tonic and stimulant properties and is an anticoaulant.

Gemmotherapy remedies are very close to herbal, so there can be counter-indications. Please consult your health care practitioner before using any of the gemmotherapy remedies, or ask one of our skilled homeopaths for advice!

Blackberry vine/Bramble - shoots

Indications: Bronchitis

Rubus frusticosus is a natural analgesic, traditionally used for pain. It is useful in degenerative conditions of the bone, and an antisclerotic. It is traditionally used in disorders like osteoporosis, arthritis, ankylosing spondylarthritis, rheumatoid polyarthritis and fibromyalgia. It is a great remedy for the elderly. 

Gemmotherapy remedies are very close to herbal, so there can be counter-indications. Please consult your health care practitioner before using any of the gemmotherapy remedies, or ask one of our skilled homeopaths for advice!

Raspberry - shoots

Indications: Dysmenorrhoea

Rumex crispus is a homeopathic remedy used for the natural treatment of:

• coughs with a tickling sensation
• bronchitis
• sore throats
• itchy skin
• jaundice

From Boericke:

 (Yellow Dock) Is characterized by pains, numerous and varied, neither fixed nor constant anywhere. Cough caused by an incessant tickling in the throat-pit, which tickling runs down to the bifurcation of the bronchial tubes. Touching the throat-pit brings on the cough. Worse from the least cold air; so that all cough ceases by covering up all the body and head with the bedclothes. Rumex diminishes the secretions of mucous membranes, and at the same time exalts sensibility of the mucous membranes of the larynx and trachea. Its action upon the skin is marked, producing an intense itching. LYMPHATICS ENLARGED and secretions perverted.

Stomach
Tongue sore at edges.; coated; sensation of hard substance in pit of stomach; hiccough, pyrosis, nausea; CANNOT EAT MEAT; IT CAUSES ERUCTATIONS, PRURITUS. Jaundice after excessive use of alcoholics. Chronic gastritis; aching pain in pit of stomach and shooting in the chest; extends towards the throat-pit, worse any motion or talking. Pain in left breast after meals; FLATULENCE.

Respiratory
Nose dry. TICKLING IN THROAT-PIT CAUSES COUGH. COPIOUS MUCOUS DISCHARGEfrom nose and trachea. DRY, TEASING COUGH, PREVENTING SLEEP. AGGRAVATED BY PRESSURE, TALKING, AND ESPECIALLY BY INSPIRING COOL AIR AND AT NIGHT. Thin, watery, frothy expectoration by the mouthful; later, stringy and tough. Rawness of larynx and trachea. Soreness behind sternum, especially left side, in region of left shoulder. RAW PAIN UNDER CLAVICLE. Lump in throat.

Stool
Brown, watery, diarrhoea EARLY IN MORNING, with cough, driving him out of bed. Valuable in advanced phthisis. (SENEG.; PULS.; LYCOP.; ARS.) Itching of anus, with sensation as of a stick in rectum. Piles.

Skin
Intense itching of skin, especially of LOWER EXTREMITIES; WORSE, EXPOSURE TO COLD AIR WHEN UNDRESSING. Urticaria; contagious prurigo.

Modalities
Worse, in evening, from inhaling cold air; left chest; uncovering.

Ruta is a homeopathic remedy used for the natural treatment of:

• sprains
• strains
• bruises
• bone injuries
• headaches after straining eyes
• eyestrain
• injuries to tendons
• sore joints
• formation of deposits or nodes on tendons, periosteum and joints

From Boericke: 

(Rue-bitterwort) Acts upon the periosteum and cartilages, eyes and uterus. Complaints from straining FLEXOR TENDONS especially. Tendency to the formation of deposits in the periosteum, tendons, and about joints, especially wrist. Overstrain of ocular muscles. All parts of the body are painful, AS IF BRUISED. Sprains (after ARNICA). Lameness after sprains. Jaundice. FEELING OF INTENSE LASSITUDE, WEAKNESS AND DESPAIR. Injured "bruised" bones.

Head
Pain as from a nail; after excessive intoxicating drinks. Periosteum sore. Epistaxis.

Eyes
EYE-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. Tarsal cartilage feels bruised. Pressure over eyebrow. Asthenopia.

Stomach
Gastralgia of aching, gnawing character.

Urinary
Pressure in neck of bladder after urinating; painful closure. (APIS.) Constant urging to urinate, feels bladder full.

Rectum
DIFFICULT FSECES, evacuated only with straining. Constipation, alternating with mucous, frothy stools; discharge of blood with stool. When sitting, tearing stitches in rectum. CARCINOMA AFFECTING LOWER BOWEL. PROLAPSUS ANI every time the bowels move, after confinement. Frequent, unsuccessful urging to stool. Protrusion of rectum when stooping.

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

Back
Pain in nape, back and loins. Backache better pressure and lying on back. Lumbago worse morning before rising.

Extremities
Spine and limbs feel bruised. Small of back and loins pain. 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. Ganglia. (BENZOIC AC) Sciatica; worse, lying down at night; pain from back down hips and thighs. Hamstrings feel shortened. (GRAPH.) TENDONS CORE. Aching pain in tendo-Achilles. THIGHS PAIN WHEN STRETCHING THE LIMBS. Pain in bones of feet and ankles. Great restlessness.

Modalities
WORSE, lying down, from cold, wet weather.

Relationship
Compare: RATANHIA; CARDUUS. Rectal (irritation); JABORANDI; PHYT.; RHUS; SIL.; ARN. Antidote: CAMPH. Complementary: CALC. PHOS.

Dose
First to sixth potency. Locally, the tincture for ganglia and as a lotion for the eyes.