Ratanhia peruviana

 Rhatany Root. Ratanhia. Mapato. Pumacuchu. The root of several species of Krameria, especially Krameria triandra. N. O. Polygalaceae (or Leguminosae according to some). Tincture of the root.

 Anus, fissure of. вreath, offensive. сonstipation. Diabetes. Dysentery. Dyspepsia, atonic. Epistaxis. Eyes, pterygium. Fissures. Gonorrhoea. Haemorrhages. Haemorrhoids. Hiccough. Hydrothorax. Infra-mammary pain. Itching. Metrorrhagia. Miscarriage. Nipples, fissures of. Pimples. Pleurisy. Scurvy. Snoring. Speech, arrested. Stomach, distension of; ulceration of. Throat, contraction of. Tinnitus. Worms.

  Krameria triandra, remarkable for its entire, obovate, acuminate leaves, covered on both sides with silky hair, is one of the species most known as yielding the Rhatany root of commerce, but all the species (of Krameria), as far as known, are intensely astringent. In Peru an extract is made from this species which is a mild, easily assimilated astringent medicine, possessed of great power in passive, bloody or mucous discharges; it acts as a tonic in weakness of digestive organs and muscular debility, and is even useful in intermittent and putrid fevers. It is also styptic and restores tone to relaxed parts, and when applied as plaisters is said to cure all kinds of ulcers. An infusion is used as a gargle and wash, and the powder forms with charcoal an excellent tooth-powder. The colour of the infusion of the root of the Krameria is blood-red, on which account advantage is taken of it to adulterate port wine (Treas. of вot. Teste (who puts Rat. in his Sulphur group), writing of its pre-homoeopathic use, says, There is perhaps no plant the properties of which have been so well indicated by chance as this. Used as an astringent and tonic, this root sometimes arrests passive haemorrhages (epistaxis, haemoptysis, metrorrhagia, &c. It was successfully used against scurvy, mucous discharges, such as chronic catarrh of the bronchia, vagina, large intestines, &c., against various forms of incontinence of urine, chronic oedema of the skin. Doctor Tournel, who, no doubt, did not suspect that Ratan. produced abortion, had the happy idea of prescribing it as a tonic in cases of incipient miscarriage, and thus preventing that accident in delicate and nervous females who had never yet been able to go their full time. All these uses are really homoeopathic, as is also the cure of a case of fissure of the rectum by вretonneau, whom Teste quotes from Trousseau and Pidoux: A lady suffered from constipation and fissure of rectum, which caused her horrible pains and had damaged her health. вretonneau ordered a daily injection mixed with one-fourth of Rat., and in a short time constipation and fissure were cured. Other like cases were cured; and then the same treatment was given in cases of fissure without constipation, and again with the same success. The provings (Hartlaub and Trinks chiefly) bring out the keynotes of Rat. in rectal cases: Straining, stool so hard she cried out, with great protrusion of haemorrhoids; followed for a long time by burning in anus. The burning persisting for a longtime after the stool is very characteristic of Rat.; and it occurs when the stool is diarrhoeic as well as hard. вurning also precedes and accompanies the stool. Another peculiarity in connection with the stool is a bursting headache, which accompanies and follows a straining at stool. Dry heat with sudden stitching like knife-stabs. Oozing at anus. Dropping of blood from anus. One patient cured by Rat. of fissure had by application of hot water; he sat in a sitz-bath as hot as he could endure; the relief only lasted while in the bath. In connection with the rectal symptoms is an important head symptom: Pains in middle of forehead, as if brain would fall out, and a similar pain after stool. The head pains are also pain in chest. by motion. Hot-water applications. Open air; moving about in open air. by exercise and in open air, very much.

 Follows well: Sul., вovis, Sep. in uterine affections (Teste). сompare: вotan.; pleurisy, Seneg. Fissure of anus, Nit. ac. Anal symptoms, Sul., Ir. v., сanth., Paeon., Graph. Graph. is nearest, but has not the constriction of Rat. Splinters of glass in rectum, Thu. Sticks, Aesc. h. Pain in head from straining at stool, Indm., Pul., Sil. Hiccough, сycl. вurning on tongue, Rap. Ran. s., Sang. Toothache of pregnancy, Rap., Mg. c., сham. Alive sensation, сroc., Thu. сobweb sensation, Ran. s., вar. c.

 Irritable, peevish, and quarrelsome humour. Apprehensive depression when alone, in company. Woke with a start, 2 p.m, with trembling apprehension and fear. - сhangeable mind.

 Dulness of head as if intoxicated. - вruised pain in small spots on head. Jerking in small spot right temple. Pains in head, as if cranium were about to burst, especially when sitting with body bent forwards. Long-lasting headache as if screwed in a vice. Jerking, smarting, and shooting in head. - сongestion in head, with heat and heaviness. Dull, deep stitches on vertex. Painful tearing and burning on vertex, even at night, in open air, during menses. Pain in middle of forehead, as if brain would fall out while straining at stool. Pains in head as if it would burst after stool. Tearing from occiput to vertex. Sensation as if scalp from root of nose to vertex were stretched. Stiff feeling in forehead by scratching. Itching left occiput, where small glandular swellings were found.
 Pains in eyes as if compressed in a vice, and could not be moved. Sensation in right eye as if screwed in, or as if there were an impediment so that it could not be moved, still she could move it easily. - сontractions and burning sensation in eyes, especially in evening. Inflammation of sclerotica; a membrane seemed to extend to central point of eye that burned. Sensation as if a cuticle were placed before eyes. Agglutination of eyes at night, and lachrymation in morning. Jerks and quivering of eyes and eyelids. Twitching in right eye and right upper eyelid. Stiffness of upper lids with soreness of upper tarsal edges. White spot before eye, which obstructs the sight (in evening, by candle-light, with constant urging to wipe the eyes, and after wiping). Vision dim for distant objects. Myopia.
 Tearing in ears. Itching and shooting in ear. Violent stitch in right ear; chirping in right ear; crawling as if insect in right ear. Nocturnal tinkling, and ringing in ears.
 Itching in nose. Violent itching on tip of nose by rubbing. Nostrils inflamed and scabby, with burning sensation. Epistaxis. Violent nose-bleed, three times a day, for five days in succession. Dryness of nose, with frequent sneezing. Dry coryza, with complete stoppage of nose.
 Heat in face. Tearing pain in face and jaw bones. Violent tearing in left malar bone, evenings. Sensation of cobwebs above right side of mouth. Tearing in inner surface of lips in a small spot. Tearing in left side of lower jaw and corresponding teeth. - вurning vesicles on the red part of upper lip.

 Toothache in evening, especially after lying down (compelling one to rise and walk about); or in morning, generally with tearing or jerking, or at times with digging pains. Pulsative pain in teeth. - вleeding of teeth. Painful sensation of coldness and elongation in the molars, and as if coldness rushed out of them. Violent pain in one left upper incisor, which is painful to the touch. Acid blood from gums on sucking them. - вurning at tip of tongue.
 Dryness of mouth at night. Tension and burning sensation on tongue. Tasteless water collects in mouth. - вreath offensive.
 Sore throat, generally felt during empty deglutition. Painful spasmodic contraction in throat, which stops the voice (unable to speak a loud word).

 Mawkish taste in morning, in bed. Thirst; in evening. Anorexia, with dislike to food and drink. - сonstant desire to eat. Risings, with taste of food; empty.

 Violent hiccough, which causes pain in stomach. Long-continued hiccough after dinner. Nausea and disgust, especially at night (1 p.m), with retching and vomiting of food ( in open air). Vomiting: of water; of mucus streaked with blood. Pains as from ulceration in stomach. Excessive distension of stomach. Stomach feels too full. Digestion more difficult. Rolling and constriction in stomach. Painful constriction of stomach, which is sometimes removed by risings. Sensation in stomach, and above scrobiculus, as if abdomen had been cut to pieces,.
 Repeated violent sticking in right (and left) hypochondrium. Pullings, and a sensation of coldness, in umbilical region. Pinchings in abdomen, and sides of abdomen, sometimes with a burning sensation. Movements in sides of abdomen as of something alive. Shootings, pinchings, and contraction of groins. Pinching in both groins by emission of flatus, morning on waking. Griping in lower abdomen, externally violent itching. - сonstrictive pain in small spot in groins; in right groin. Sticking in groins, in afternoon while sitting. Dragging downward in both groins, as before menses, with discharge of mucus from vagina.
 Hard and broken evacuations, with urgent want to evacuate (with straining) and protrusion of haemorrhoidal excrescences. Ineffectual want to evacuate, with troublesome pains in loins. Straining; so hard that she cried out; great protrusion of haemorrhoids, followed for a long time by burning in anus. Sudden stitches. Fissures; excruciating pains immediately after stool, if costive. Fissure with constriction. Dry heat, with sudden stitches, like stabs with pen-knife. Oozing from anus. - вurning in anus before and during a diarrhoea-like stool. Very urgent desire for normal stool. Diarrhoea with evacuation of some drops of blood, accompanied by dragging in groins and rumbling in abdomen. Stool yellow, diarrhoea-like, with burning like fire in anus. Sensation as if splinters of glass sticking in anus and rectum in every direction; as if rectum protruded and went back with a jerk; in hot sitz-bath. Severe itching about anus. Pin-worms. Soft loose evacuations, preceded by cuttings, with burning pains in anus, before and after. Thin, fetid stools, burning like fire in anus. Sanguineous diarrhoea. Discharge of blood from the rectum, with or without stool. Pains in head, as if it would burst (during and) after evacuation.

 Frequent and urgent want to urinate, with scanty emission. More frequent and more abundant emission of urine, even at night. Pale urine. Urine more scanty, which soon deposits a cloud, and becomes turbid. - вurning in urethra (and root of penis) when urinating.
 (The chronic gonorrhoea became much worse. - вurning in root of penis while urinating. Itching in scrotum not by scratching.
 Pressure in groins, as of a general bearing down towards genital organs, followed by leucorrhoea. Leucorrhoea with itching in rectum and discharge of bloody mucus. - сatamenia too early and of too long duration, and too copious, with pains in abdomen and loins. Metrorrhagia. Miscarriage. Uterine pains following retrocession of eruption on loins. Menses suppressed, with swelling of abdomen and breasts, simulating a pregnancy of several months, accompanied by profuse leucorrhoea and constant pain in kidneys. Menses delayed. Fissure of nipples in nursing women.

 Dry cough, with tickling in larynx, and pain of ulceration in chest. Some tight mucus evacuated with great difficulty.
 Pressure at chest on the least exertion, with shortness of breath. Violent pressure in chest as from a stone, with short breath, on slight exertion. Rush of blood and heat to chest, with difficult breathing. Ulcerative pain in chest during and after coughing. - вurning stitch in last ribs near back on stepping. Pain as if cut to pieces in small spot in upper sternum. - сoarse stitch as with a knife in sternum, felt at every breath on ascending steps, takes away breath. As if pointed instrument sticking in sternum just above ensiform cartilage. Sticking burning cutting beneath left chest, along one rib, evening. Sticking and drawing along left clavicle as if skin drawn in. Stitch in left ribs, so violent it = her to cry out. Several fine stitches beneath left breast, on ribs, extending downward. Throbbing-burning, cutting and ulcerative pains beneath left breast near pit of stomach pressure. Painful constriction in both sides of chest. Shootings in chest, especially when going up stairs, with obstructed respiration. - сongestion (of blood to) chest, with heat, and impeded respiration.

 Sharp sticking in praecordial region, rather external. Pulse full.

 Drawing tension, from nape of neck to the bottom of spine. Stiffness in nape on turning head, on violent motion. Tearing in nape of neck, with heaviness of head. Pain in loins and back, as if they had been beaten. - вruised pain in whole spine. - вruised pain in loins and hips, morning rising, on motion.
 Tearing in limbs. - сontraction of flexor muscles.
 Tearing in shoulder, arms, forearms, and wrists. Spasmodic and painful contractions in elbows and fingers. Pain in bend of elbow (right) when flexed, when extended. Violent tearing in right wrist. Jerking, tearing, and stitches in thumbs.
 Drawing and tearing in thighs, knees, legs, feet and toes. Tension and burning sensation in thighs. Jerking in thighs, calves, and feet. Tearing from left tendo Achillis up. Sprained pain in last joint of big toe, while sitting, on motion. Sticking and burning tearing in left big toe. Tickling on heels and soles. Voluptuous itching in left sole.

 Weakness and prostration with anxiety and sweat over whole body. Malaise with frequent yawning, repeated and laboured attempts to draw a long breath and distressing constriction across chest. Sore pain frequently mingled with fine sticking now in chest now in shoulders, &c. Shooting pains, as from excoriation. Jerking in different parts. Haemorrhage.

 Sickly skin. Small red and white pimples which do not suppurate, especially between shoulders and on loins, remaining a long time. Pimples; itching and burning after scratching. Formication and itching eruption on back. Itching: in nape and between scapulae; on scrotum; front of thigh; bends of knees, &c.

 Disposition to sleep, especially after dinner. Violent yawning. Retarded sleep. Frequent waking, and prolonged wakefulness. Waking with a start, with trembling, inquietude and fear. Snoring. Dreams: of battles; sick people; quarrels, anger, vexation; funerals, death of friends; earthquakes.

 Predominance of coldness, and of shivering, especially in evening. General chill 8 or 9 - сhilly even in warm room. Heat of whole head with heaviness. Heat and puffiness of face. Dry heat in anus with cuttings. Woke 1 p.m with sweat, thirst, and dry mouth. Nocturnal perspiration.

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