Ratanhia
Allen, Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica, 3rd ed., 1910, p. 239
Rhatany. Polygalacece.
Keynotes
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.).
Relationship
Compare: Canth., Carb. ac.. Iris, Sulph., Thuja.