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Allen

Ratanhia

Same remedy in Boericke: Ratanhia Peruviana

Source: H.C. Allen, Keynotes and Characteristics (4th ed., 1916)

Rhatany. (Polygalaceae.)

Terrible toothache during early months of pregnancy; tooth feels elongated; < lying, compelling to rise and walk about.

Constipation: stool hard with great straining; protrusion of haemorrhoids followed by long lasting aching and burning in anus (Sulph.); bowels inactive; pain after stool as if splinters of glass were sticking in anus and rectum (Thuja). Excruciating pains after stool; burning after soft stool (Nit. ac.). Fissures of anus, great sensitiveness of rectum. Fissures of nipples in nursing women (Graph., Sep.).

Relations. - Compare: Canth., Carb. ac., Iris, Sulph., Thuja.