Ratanhia peruviana

Common name: rhatany.

The rectal symptoms are most important, and have received much clinical confirmation (Br.).

GREAT SENSITIVENESS OF THE RECTUM (Lach., Mur-Ac.) (A.).

FISSURE OF THE ANUS (Aesc., Graph., Nat-M., Nit-Ac., Sulph.) (A.).

EXCRUCIATING PAINS AFTER STOOL (Ign., Nit-Ac., Thuj.) (A.).

Burning after soft stool (Aloe, Nit-Ac.) (A.).

Constipation; bowels inactive; stool hard and expelled with great straining (A.).

Protrusion of hærmorrhoids, followed by long-lasting aching and burning in the anus (Sulph.) (A.).

PAIN AFTER STOOL AS IF SPLINTERS OF GLASS WERE STICKING IN THE ANUS AND RECTUM (Aesc., Nit-Ac., Thuj.) (A.).

Dry or itching anus (Aesc., Sulph.) (B.).

Fissures of the nipples in nursing women (Graph., Petr., Sep.) (A.).

Terrible toothache during early months of pregnancy (Acon., Bell., Bry., Calc., Cham., Hyos., Lyss., Mag-C., Merc., Nux-M., Puls., Rhus-T., Sep., Staph., Tab.) (A.).

Tooth feels elongated (Alum., Am-C., Ant-T., Bor., Bry., Calc., Carb-V., Caust., Cham., Lach., Mag-C., Mezer., Nux-V., Phyt., Rhus-T., Staph.) (A.).

Toothache, worse from lying, compelling one to rise and walk about (Mag-C., Rhus-T.) (A.).

Bursting headache when straining at stool (Ind.) (B.).

Violent, painful hiccough (Am-M., Cic., Lyc., Mag-P., Nat-M., Nux-V., Stram., Verat.) (B.).

Hiccough after eating (Alum., Ars., Bry., Carb-V., Cycl., Graph., Hyos., Ign., Lyc., Mag-M., Nat-C., Nux-V., Phos., Sep., Teucr., Sulph., Verat., Zinc.) (K.).

Pin-worms (Calc., Cina, Merc., Sil., Sulph., Teucr.) (Br.).

Pain like knives cutting the stomach (Abrot., Ars., Bell., Cham., Coloc., Dios., Hydr., Ign., Kali-C., Lyc., Merc., Nux-V., Op., Phos., Puls., Sil., Sulph., Thuj., Valer., Zinc.) (Br.).

Oozing at the anus (Aloe, Phos., Pæon.) (Br.).

Fœtid, thin diarrhœa; stools burn (Aloe, Nux-V., Sulph.) (Br.).

Sensation as if the brain would fall out of the forehead (B.).

AGGRAVATION: From lying; during pregnancy; at night; from touch; from heat; during and after stool; and after eating.

AMELIORATION: From walking about, from cool bathing and from washing with hot water.

RELATIONSHIP: Compare: Aesc., Bry., Canth., Carb-Ac., Cycl., Hyos., Ind., Iris, Kali-C., Kali-M., Lach., Lyc., Mag-C., Nat-M., Nit-Ac., Nux-V., Pæon., Petr., Phos., Rhus-T., Sulph., Thuj. and Verat.