RATANHIA PERUVIANA
Krameria-Mapato (RATANHIA)
The rectal signs and symptoms are most important, and have acquired a whole lot medical confirmation. It has cured pterygium. Violent hiccough. Cracked nipples (Graph; Eup ar). Pin worms.
Head.–Bursting in head after stool, and when sitting with head bent forward. Sensation as if scalp from nostril to vertex had been stretched.
Stomach.–Pain like knives slicing the stomach.
Rectum.–Aches, as if full of damaged glass. Anus aches and burns for hours after stool. Feels constricted. Dry warmth at anus, with unexpected knife-like stitches. Stools ought to be pressured with magnificent effort; protrusion of haemorrhoids. Fissures of anus, with super constriction, burning like fire, as do the haemorrhoids; quickly relieved by way of bloodless water. Fetid, skinny diarrhoea; stools burn; burning pains earlier than and after stools. Oozing at anus. Pin-worms (Sant; Teuc; Spig). Itching of anus.
Relationship.–Compare: Paeon; Croton (rectal neuralgia); Sanguin nit (diseases of rectum); Macuna prurens-Dolichos-piles, with burning; haemorrhoidal diathesis; Silico-sulphocalcite of Alumina; Stag-blast iron furnace cinder–(anal itching, piles, and constipation; housemaid’s knee); belly flatulent distension and lumbago. Analogue to Lycopod.
Dose.–Third to sixth potency. Locally, the Cerate has proved helpful in many rectal complaints.
