Ratanhia

COMMON NAME:

      RHATANY.

Symptoms

      The rectal symptoms are most important, and have received much clinical confirmation (Br.).

GREAT SENSITIVENESS OF THE RECTUM (Lachesis, Mur-Ac.) (A.).

FISSURE OF THE ANUS (Aesculus, Graphites, Natrum muriaticum, Acid nitricum, Sulphur) (A.).

EXCRUCIATING PAINS AFTER STOOL (Ignatia, Acid nitricum, Thuja) (A.).

Burning after soft stool (Aloe., Acid nitricum) (A.).

Constipation; bowels inactive; stool hard and expelled with great straining (A.).

Protrusion of haemorrhoids, followed by long-lasting aching and burning in the anus (Sulphur) (A.).

PAIN AFTER STOOL AS IF SPLINTERS OF GLASS WERE STICKING IN THE ANUS AND RECTUM (Aesculus, Acid nitricum, Thuja) (Ac.).

Dry or itching anus (Aesculus, Sulphur) (B.).

Fissures of the nipples in nursing women (Graphites, Petroleum, Sepia) (A.).

Terrible toothache during early months of pregnancy (Aconite, Belladonna, Bryonia, Calcarea, Chamomilla, Hyoscyamus, Lyss., Magnesia carb., Mercurius, Nux-M., Pulsatilla, Rhus toxicodendron, Sep, Staphysagria; Tabacum) (A.).

Tooth feels elongated (Alumina, Am-C., Ant-T., Borax, Bryonia, Calcarea, Carbo vegetabilis, Causticum, Chamomilla, Lachesis, Magnesia carb., Mezer., Nux vomica, Phytolacca, Rhus toxicodendron, Staphysagria) (A.).

Toothache, worse from lying, compelling one to rise and walk about (Magnesia carb., Rhus toxicodendron) (A.).

Bursting headache when straining at stool (Ind.) (B.).

Violent, painful hiccough (Am-M., Cicuta, Lycopodium, Magnesia phos., Natrum muriaticum, Nux vomica, Stramonium, Veratrum) (B.).

Hiccough after eating (Alumina, Arsenicum, Bryonia, Carbo vegetabilis, Cyclamen, Graphites, Hyoscyamus, Ignatia, Lycopodium, Mag-M., Natrum carbonicum, Nux vomica, Phosphorus, Sepia, Teucrium, Sulphur, Veratrum, Zincum met.) (K.).

Pin-worms (Calcarea, Cina, Mercurius, Silicea, Sulphur, teucr.) (Br.).

Pain like knives cutting the stomach (Abrotanum, Arsenicum, Belladonna, Chamomilla, Coloc., Dioscorea, Hydrastis, Ignatia, Kali carb., Lycopodium, Mercurius, Nux vomica, Opium, Phosphorus, Pulsatilla, Silicea, Sulphur, Thuja, Veratrum, Zincum met.) (Br.).

Oozing at the anus (Aloe, Phosphorus, Paeon.) (Br.).

Foetid, thin diarrhoea; stools burn (Aloe, Nux vomica, Sulphur) (Br.).

Sensation as if the brain would fall out of the forehead (B.).

AGGRAVATION :

      From lying; during pregnancy; at night; from tough; from heat; during and after stool; and after eating.

AMELIORATION:

      From walking about, from cool bathing and from washing with hot water.

RELATIONSHIP:

      Compare: Aesculus, Bryonia, Cantharis, Carb-Ac., Cyclamen, Hyoscyamus, Ind., Iris, Kali carb., Kali-M.; Lachesis, Phosphorus, Rhus toxicodendron, Sulphur, Thuja and Veratrum

Adolph Lippe

Adolph Lippe (born near Goerlitz, Prussia, 11 May 1812; died in Philadelphia, 23 January 1888) was a homeopathic physician who worked in the United States. Adolph got a legal education at Berlin. After completing his legal studies, Lippe became interested in homeopathy, and emigrated to the United States in 1837 to further his study. In 1838, he enrolled in the North American Academy of Homeopathy at Allentown, Pennsylvania, from where he graduated in 1841. He settled in Philadelphia, where from 1863 until 1868 he was professor of materia medica in the Homeopathic College of Pennsylvania. Besides some essays and treatises from the French, German, and Italian which became standards, Lippe was the author of:
Comparative Materia Medica (Philadelphia, 1854)
Text-Book of Materia Medica (1866)