Ratanhia

The rectal symptoms are most important, and have received much clinical confirmation. It has cured pterygium. Violent hiccough. Cracked nipples. [Graph.; Eup. ar.{ Pin worms.

Head p. 548

Bursting in head after stool, and when sitting with head bent forward. Sensation as if scalp from nose to vertex were stretched.

Stomach p. 548

Pain like knives cutting the stomach.

Rectum p. 548

Aches, as if full of broken glass. Anus aches and burns for hours after stool. Feels constricted. Dry heat at anus, with sudden knife-like stitches. Stools must be forced with great effort; protrusion of hemorrhoids. Fissures of anus, with great constriction, burning like fire, as do the hemorrhoids; temporarily relieved by cold water. Fetid, thin diarrhœa; stools burn; burning pains before and after stools. Oozing at anus. Pin-worms. [Sant.; Teuc.; Spig.] Itching of anus.

Relationship p. 548

Compare: Pæon.; Croton (rectal neuralgia); Sanguin. nit. (diseases of rectum); Macuna prurens—Dolichos—piles, with burning; hemorrhoidal diathesis); Silico-sulphocalcite of Alumina; Slag—blast iron furnace cinder—(anal itching, piles, and constipation; housemaid’s knee); abdominal flatulent distension and lumbago. Analogue to Lycopod.