Homeopathy Remedy Ratanhia


Ratanhia homeopathy drug symptoms from Handbook of Materia Medica and Homeopathic Therapeutics by T.F. Allen, of the homeopathic remedy Ratanhia…


      A tincture is made of thee dried root Krameria triandra, R. and P. Ally. Iris-v.

Generalities

      Jerking here and there. Sticking now in l. ribs, now in small of back, in region of hips, etc. Sore pain now in chest, now in shoulders and in other parts, often with sticking. Malaise, frequent yawning, labored attempts to draw a long breath and constriction across chest. Weakness, with anxiety and sweat. Amelioration from motion in open air and aggravating from mental distress.

Mind

      Restlessness, causing exacerbations. Quarrelsome. Ill humor. Changeable mood. Apprehensive depression when alone, (>) conversation and giving place to gayety.

Head

      Sticking here and there in evening. Tearing, (<) l. side; T. or stitching on moving and on deep breathing. Pain as if screwed together; P. as if it would burst, also after the usual stool; bruised, here and there. Jerking deep in brain. Dullness; as if intoxicated.

Forehead. Sticking in r. side; S. in middle on stooping. Tearing. Pain as if it would burst in evening when sitting bent over; in middle as if whole brain would force out when straining at stool. Drawing behind r. side when walking. Dullness, (>) open air.

Tearing in l. temple; in spots in r. Jerking in a spot externally in r. temple. Sticking in vertex. Tearing in vertex, then intermittent sticking; T. during menses, (>) open air, with burning. Sticking in l. side on sitting down; S. in upper part of r., then pain as if beaten. Burrowing in r. side of brain, (>) open air. Frequent bruised pain in. l. parietal bone. Tearing extending from occiput to vertex. Itching not (>) scratching; I. on r. temple; on l. side of occiput; and glandular swellings.

Eyes

      Inflammation of whole, a membrane seemed to extend to centre of eye, that burned. Twitching of r. Sticking above r. external canthus. Sensation in r. as if screwed in or as if it could not be moved, still she could move it easily. Biting in r. in morning. Burning in morning on walking; in evening, with constriction; in evening, agglutination at night.

Lachrymation in morning after waking. Lids, agglutination in morning; twitching of r. upper; twitching of r. lower, with weak vision; sticking in l. upper in evening; itching in r. lower; stiffness of upper, then sensation as if lid were pressed upward, preventing vision; tearing in r. inner in evening Vision dim; for distant objects. A white spot before eyes in evening, by the light, preventing vision.

Ears

      Sticking in r. Tearing in r.; in middle and outer; in bone behind l., extending upward; piercing in front of r. Crawling in r. Itching in r. Chirping in r. Ringing on waking about midnight.

Nose

      Pimples in r. nostril, becoming scabs. L. nostril inflamed and scabby. Swollen feeling across bridge; in r. nostril. Dryness, (<) l. nostril. Burning in nostrils. Ticking or itching about nostril. Itching in nostrils. Stoppage and fulness. Stopped catarrh. Violent sneezing. Bleeding three times a day.

Face

      Tearing in l. malar-bone in evening; in l. side of lower jaw and corresponding teeth. Sensation of cobwebs about r, side of mouth. Lip, pimple on inner surface of r. side of lower; vesicles beneath margin of lower; blisters in red of upper, burning on touch; tearing in a spot in inner surface.

Mouth

      Shooting or jerking in molars in evening and morning, with coldness starting from them; S. in incisor, eating, with heat, preventing sleep. Tearing in molars in evening, now in r. lower, now in r. upper, now also deep in bone in front of r. ear. Digging in some lower molars in evening. Throbbing in root of an upper tooth; in a l. upper incisor, with bleeding of teeth. A. l. upper incisor feels too long and is painful to touch; molars seems too long and coldness seems to come out of them. Gums swollen; fungoid softening; acid blood from, when sucking; painful spot as if abraded. Tongue, tension as if swollen; burning on tip; burning itching on tip. Mouth dry all night. Offensive breath. Collection of tasteless water. Insipid taste in morning in bed.

Throat

      Painful spasmodic contraction, during which she could not speak a loud word. Intermittent sticking. Roughness and scraping. Soreness, worse on empty swallowing that on swallowing large pieces.

Stomach

      Hunger increased. She has no relish, food has no taste. Disgusted in morning with everything that he will not hear of eating. Thirst; in evening. Eructations, with salivation; E. tasting of the dinner; empty, after dinner. Hiccough after dinner; violent H., so that stomach is painful Nausea; waking him at 1 A.M., with retching, then vomiting of food eaten the previous evening, relieving the nausea, then sleep till 3 A.M., then awakened by nausea, with rolling and constriction in stomach, (>) open air. Vomiting of only water; of mucus streaked with blood.

Distention; in morning; before dinner, (>) emission of flatus. Rumbling when walking, it seems empty; R. after dinner, with movements; in epigastrium in afternoon. Sticking to l. of pit. Pain as if cut to pieces, (<) deep breathing. Sudden twisting in pit in afternoon. Griping in morning. Ulcerative pain in r, side above pit; in epigastric region in evening. Constriction in evening, (>) eructations, with cutting in abdomen. Weight in region and sometimes pinching. Heat; in epigastrium. Digestion difficult.

Abdomen

      Flatulent distention in afternoon, with constant desire for stool and frequent emission of flatus. Rumbling and gurgling, then painless diarrhoea twice, some drops of bright blood with the last; R, with dragging in groins and diarrhoea, with blood three times. Movements as after a purge, in morning. Griping, then soft stool. Pinching; in morning, with burning. Colic, with frequent diarrhoea; then five thin stools.

Movements as of something living in r., then in l. side. Pinching in sides. Sticking in l. hypochondrium; in r. H. in evening. Frequent pinching about umbilicus in afternoon. Drawing in U. region, with coldness. Rumbling in hypogastrium, with cutting, then scanty diarrhoea three times in the day. Frequent griping in hypogastrium in morning, with external itching. Groins, sticking in afternoon, when sitting; pinching or constriction in r. in evening; pinching in morning on waking, (>) emission of flatus; dragging downward as before menstruation, with discharge of mucus from vagina; constriction a spot.

Rectum and Anus

      Painful haemorrhoids. Anus, oozing; burning before and after diarrhoea; dry heat and cutting. straining, then hard stool and protrusion of haemorrhoids, then burning in anus (Cantharis, Iris, Sul.). Urging for a normal stool; ineffectual U.

Clinical Fissure of the anus, with great constriction, terrible pain following the stool, especially burning like fire, only temporarily relieved by cold water. Haemorrhoids, with extreme burning like fire.

Stool

      Liquid in morning after rising. Yellow diarrhoea, with burning in anus. Constipation. Hard, with pressure; H., scanty, difficult; H., then diarrhoea.

Clinical Bloody stools. Thin fetid diarrhoea, with burning like fire in the anus.

Urinary Organs

      Frequent urging, always only a few drop. Micturition frequent and profuse; at night; frequent, only a little at time, with burning in urethra. Urine pale. Urine copious. Urine scanty; and soon depositing a cloud, afterwards becoming turbid like muddy water.

Genital Organs

      Burning at root of penis when urinating. Itching of scrotum, not (>) scratching. (chronic gonorrhoea becomes worse.) Leucorrhoea. Discharge of blood, the menses had ceased four days before. Menses too early; and; with pain in abdomen; delayed; ceased on fourth day and returned on fifth day; suppressed, with swelling of abdomen and breasts, simulating a pregnancy of several months, with leucorrhoea and pain kidneys.

Respiratory Organs

      Cough from tickling in larynx; dry C., mucus is loosened with difficulty.

Chest

      Sticking in sternum, above ensiform cartilage; behind r. ribs in afternoon; above l. clavicle in evening, with drawing as if skin were drawn inward; on l. ribs during dinner; in sternum at every step when descending stairs, taking away the breath; on ribs, beneath l. breast, extending downward; burning, in last ribs, near back, on stepping. Sticking burning beneath l., along one rib, in evening, with cutting. Intermittent cutting in a spot in upper part of sternum; throbbing-burning C. beneath l. breast, near pit of stomach, (>) pressure and motion with ulcerative pain. Ulcerative pain during and after cough. Constriction in side. Pressure as from a stone, with short breath on slight exertion. Rush of blood and heat, with difficult breathing.

Heart and Pulse

      Sticking in praecordial region, rather external. Pulse often as full as in gastritis.

Neck

      Tearing sticking in l. side with constriction. Tearing in l. side; in nape extending into forehead, when walking, with heaviness of head. Tearing jerking in nape extending into vertex, when walking. Drawing or tensive pain from nape down spinal marrow after dinner. Drawing in l. side in evening when standing, with tension. Stiffness in nape on turning head, (>) violent motion.

TF Allen
Dr. Timothy Field Allen, M.D. ( 1837 - 1902)

Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.