====== RATANHIA PERUVIANA ======
<span tc1>{{anchor:s1}}Ratanhia. {{anchor:s2}}(Ratanhia Peruviana.)</span>

<span grade2>{{anchor:s3}}Rhatany, Mapato, Pumacuchu. {{anchor:s4}}Polygalaceae.</span>

{{anchor:s5}}A native of Peru, growing in dry, argillaceous and sandy soil.

{{anchor:s6}}The tincture is prepared from the dry root.

{{anchor:s7}}Hartlaub and Trinks, Arz. M. L., vol. 3, p. 57; Teste, Mat. Med.; Trousseau and Pidoux, Mat. Med.; Gaz. des Hosp., 1843; Berridge, U. S. Med. Times, 1876.

====== CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. ======

{{anchor:s9}}- <span grade2>Pterygium</span>, Newton, Hom. Rev., vol. 15, p. 210; <span grade2>Constipation and fissure of anus</span>, Allen, N. A. J. H., vol. 26, p. 523; <span grade2>Fissured anus</span>, Hibbard, A. H. O., vol. 10, p. 255; <span grade2>Ascaris vermicularis</span>, Cushing, N. E. M. G.; <span grade2>Fissures of nipple</span>, Allen, N. A. J. H., vol. 26, p. 527.

====== INNER HEAD. [3] ======

{{anchor:s11}}Painful sticking in head, here and there.\\ {{anchor:s12}}Headache as if head were in a vise.\\ {{anchor:s13}}Dull, deep stitches in vertex.\\ {{anchor:s14}}Pain in middle of forehead, as if brain would fall out, while straining at stool.

====== SIGHT AND EYES. [5] ======

{{anchor:s16}}Sensation of white speck before eyes, impeding sight in evening by candlelight, with constant urging to wipe eyes, amel. after wiping.\\ {{anchor:s17}}Sensation as of a skin before eyes.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s18}}Inflammation of white of eye; a membrane seemed to extend to central point of eye, which burned.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s19}}Pterygium.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s20}}Twitching in left upper eyelid.</span>\\ {{anchor:s21}}Twitching in right eye and right upper lid.

====== HEARING AND EARS. [6] ======

{{anchor:s23}}Violent stitch in right ear.\\ {{anchor:s24}}Chirping in right ear.

====== SMELL AND NOSE. [7] ======

{{anchor:s26}}Dryness of nose.\\ {{anchor:s27}}Dry coryza, with complete stoppage of nostrils.\\ {{anchor:s28}}Bleeding of nose.\\ {{anchor:s29}}Scabs on nose.

====== TEETH AND GUMS. [10] ======

{{anchor:s31}}The molars feel elongated, with sensation as if coldness rushed out of them.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s32}}Terrible toothache during early months of pregnancy; must get up at night and walk about.</span>\\ {{anchor:s33}}Shooting pulsating pain, with sensation of elongation in one left upper incisor (which is painful to touch) in evening; agg. after lying down, compelling one to rise and to walk about.\\ {{anchor:s34}}Gums exude sour blood on sucking them.

====== TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE. [11] ======

{{anchor:s36}}Burning on tip of tongue.

====== INNER MOUTH. [12] ======

<span grade2>{{anchor:s38}}Tasteless water collects in mouth.</span>

====== PALATE AND THROAT. [13] ======

{{anchor:s40}}Painful spasmodic contraction in throat, during which he is unable to speak a loud word.

====== APPETITE, THIRST. DESIRES, AVERSIONS. [14] ======

{{anchor:s43}}Constant desire to eat.

====== HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING. [16] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s45}}Very violent hiccough, so that stomach is painful.</span>

====== SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH. [17] ======

{{anchor:s47}}Contractive pain in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s48}}Ulcerative pain in region of stomach.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s49}}Atonic dyspepsia; accumulation of tasteless water in mouth; flat taste; no appetite, but constant desire to eat; eructations after dinner, empty or tasting of ingesta; vomiting of water, preceded by loathing; bloatedness of stomach amel. by emission of flatus; cutting in abdomen, going off by eructations; ineffectual urging to stool; hard stool with straining; yellow diarrheic stools, with burning before and during stool; languor and prostration, with weariness of whole body.</span>

====== HYPOCHONDRIA. [18] ======

<span grade2>{{anchor:s51}}Exudation in pleura with sweat and diarrhea.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s52}}~</span> <span grade2>Induration of liver.</span>

====== STOOLS AND RECTUM. [20] ======

{{anchor:s54}}Thin, fetid stools, burning like fire in anus.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s55}}Bloody diarrhea.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s56}}Discharge of blood from rectum with or without stool.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s57}}Urging sensation in small of back, as if there would be stool; hard stool with straining; sudden stitches in anus; fissures of anus.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s58}}Stool is accompanied by sweat.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s59}}~</span> <span grade2>Diarrhea.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s60}}Hard stool, with straining; ineffectual urging to stool.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s61}}Straining; stool so hard that she cried out; great protrusion of hemorrhoids, followed for a long time by burning in anus.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s62}}Inactivity of bowels for a long time, but without large accumulation of hardened feces; constantly increasing distress in rectum and anus, protrusion of rectum after stool; great heat with frequent but ineffectual efforts to evacuate bowels and bladder; three or four deep and angry-looking fissures of anus, also several superficial, but very sore and raw abrasions of mucous membrane, extending as far as sphincter, and a little beyond into rectum; sensation as if rectum and anus were all twisted up, followed by most violent cutting, not only after an evacuation, but at other times; pain after stool as if splinters of glass were sticking in every direction into anus and rectum, with great heat; these pains so intense that she could not keep quiet; sensation after stool as if rectum protruded and then suddenly went back with a jerk and most horrible pain; frequent ineffectual desire to urinate; fluttering of heart; desire to die during pains; relief, after a stool, by hot water, so that he always sat for a quarter of an hour in a sitz-bath as hot as he could endure; relief only while in bath.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s63}}Fissure of anus; great constriction; stools are forced with great effort, and anus aches and burns for hours.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s64}}Excruciating pains immediately after stool, especially if bowels are costive.</span> <span sbitared>{{anchor:s65}}~</span> <span grade4>Fissured anus.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s66}}Fissures of anus, with great sensitiveness of rectum.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s67}}Violent itching of rectum.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s68}}Dry heat at anus, with sudden stitches, like stabs with a penknife.</span>\\ {{anchor:s69}}Burning in anus before and several hours after stool, with protrusion of varices.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s70}}Burning in anus before and during a diarrhea-like stool.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s71}}Burning in anus before and after soft diarrheic stools.</span>\\ {{anchor:s72}}Protrusion of varices after hard stool, with straining and violent pressing in rectum.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s73}}Oozing from anus.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s74}}Ascaris vermicularis; severe itching about anus.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s75}}Pin-worms in children.</span>

====== URINARY ORGANS. [21] ======

<span grade2>{{anchor:s77}}Diabetes; considerable emaciation and weakness; limbs sore and aching; great appetite; insatiable thirst and constant dryness of mouth; gums livid and swollen; soreness in kidneys; severe pain in small of back, amel. from motion; hard stool with straining; frequent urging to urinate, with scanty discharge, or passes large quantities of light-colored urine.</span>\\ {{anchor:s78}}Burning in urethra while urinating.\\ {{anchor:s79}}Incontinence of urine.\\ {{anchor:s80}}Frequent urging to urinate, with scanty discharge which soon becomes turbid and cloudy.

====== FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [23] ======

<span grade2>{{anchor:s82}}Uterine pains following retrocession of eruption on lumbar region.</span>\\ {{anchor:s83}}Menses too early, profuse and of too long duration, with pains in abdomen and small of back.\\ {{anchor:s84}}Metrorrhagia.\\ {{anchor:s85}}Leucorrhea, with itching in rectum and discharge of bloody mucus.

====== PREGNANCY. PARTURITION. LACTATION. [24] ======

<span grade2>{{anchor:s89}}Threatened miscarriage.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s90}}Fissures of nipples in nursing women.</span>

====== COUGH. [27] ======

{{anchor:s92}}Dry cough with tickling in larynx and great soreness in chest.

====== INNER CHEST AND LUNGS. [28] ======

{{anchor:s94}}Congestion of blood to chest, with heat and dyspnea.\\ {{anchor:s95}}Stitches in chest, especially when ascending steps.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s96}}Hydrothorax.</span>\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s97}}Exudation in pleural cavities with sweat and diarrhea.</span>

====== NECK AND BACK. [31] ======

{{anchor:s99}}Bruised sensation in back and hips, early on rising, amel. on motion.\\ {{anchor:s100}}Twitching in small of back.\\ {{anchor:s101}}Pain in small of back during menses.

====== REST. POSITION. MOTION. [35] ======

{{anchor:s105}}Lying down: toothache agg.\\ {{anchor:s106}}Motion: pain in back amel.\\ {{anchor:s107}}Ascending steps: stitches in chest.

====== TEMPERATURE AND WEATHER. [39] ======

{{anchor:s109}}Hot water relieved pain in rectum and anus.

====== ATTACKS, PERIODICITY. [41] ======

{{anchor:s111}}Several hours: burning of anus.

====== LOCALITY AND DIRECTION. [42] ======

{{anchor:s113}}Right: twitching in eye and upper lid; stitch in ear; chirping in ear.\\ {{anchor:s114}}Left; twitching in upper eyelid; sensation of elongation in upper incisor.

====== SENSATIONS. [43] ======

{{anchor:s116}}As if head were in a vise; as if brain would fall out; as of a white speck before eyes; as of skin before eyes; as if coldness rushed out of molars; as if there would be stool; as if rectum and anus were all twisted up; as of splinters of glass in anusand rectum; as if rectum protruded and then suddenly went back with a jerk.\\ {{anchor:s117}}Pain: in middle of forehead; in abdomen and small of back.\\ {{anchor:s118}}Excruciating pains: in bowels.\\ {{anchor:s119}}Horrible pain: in rectum.\\ {{anchor:s120}}Severe pain: in small of back.\\ {{anchor:s121}}Cutting: of abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s122}}Shooting, pulsating pain: in left incisors.\\ {{anchor:s123}}Stitches: dull, deep on vertex; in right ear; in anus; in chest.\\ {{anchor:s124}}Contractive pain: in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s125}}Ulcerative pain: in region of stomach.\\ {{anchor:s126}}Sticking: painful in head.\\ {{anchor:s127}}Aching: in limbs.\\ {{anchor:s128}}Burning: on tip of tongue; in anus; in urethra.\\ {{anchor:s129}}Soreness: of limbs; of kidneys; in chest.\\ {{anchor:s130}}Bruised sensation: in back and hips.\\ {{anchor:s131}}Heat: at anus.\\ {{anchor:s132}}Tickling: in larynx.\\ {{anchor:s133}}Twitching: in left upper eyelid; in right eye and upper lid; in small of back.\\ {{anchor:s134}}Chirping: in right ear.\\ {{anchor:s135}}Dryness: of mouth; of nose.\\ {{anchor:s136}}Itching: of rectum.

====== TISSUES. [44] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s138}}Asthenic hemorrhages with exhaustion.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s139}}Chronic diarrhea and leucorrhea.</span>\\ <span grade4>{{anchor:s140}}Fissures of anus and nipples.</span>

====== TOUCH. PASSIVE MOTION. INJURIES. [45] ======

{{anchor:s144}}Touch: tooth painful.

====== STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION. [47] ======

{{anchor:s146}}Man, aet. 30, suffering over a year; fissured anus.\\ {{anchor:s147}}Man, aet. 47, nervous temperament, spare, overworked; constipation and fissure of anus.

====== RELATIONS. [48] ======

{{anchor:s149}}Compare: <span grade2>Iris vers., Canthar., Sulphur</span>, in rectal symptoms; <span grade2>Thuja</span> in sensation of splinters of glass in rectum and anus.

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====== DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR ======
^ Source: | [[en:mm:hering:start|The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica]] Vol. 09, 1890 |
^ Description: | Clinical materia medica of [[en:rem:r207|Ratanhia peruviana]] |
^ Remedies: | [[en:rem:r207|Ratanhia peruviana]] |
^ Author: | Hering, C.; Raue, C.G.; Knerr, C.B.; Mohr, C. |
^ Year: | 1890 |
^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting |
^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |}