Materia Medica
Ratanhia
Krameria - Mapato
The rectal symptoms are most important, and have received much clinical confirmation. It has cured pterygium. Violent hiccough. Cracked nipples. [Graph.; Eup. ar.]
Head
Bursting in head after stool, and when sit- ting with head bent forward. Sensation as if scalp from nose to vertex were stretched.
Stomach
Pain like knives cutting the stomach.
Rectum
Aches, as if full of broken glass. Anus aches and burns for hours after stool. Feels con- stricted. Dry heat at anus, with sudden knife-like stitches. Stools must be forced with great effort; pro- trusion of hammorrhoids. Fissures of anus, with great constriction, burning like fire, as do the haemorrhoids; temporarily relieved by cold water. Fetid, thin diar- rhoea; stools burn; burning pains before and after stools. Oozing at anus. Pin-worms. [Ant.; Teuc.; Spig.]l Itching of anus.
Relationships
Compare : Peon.; Croton (rectal neu- ralgia); Macuna prurens —- Dolichos (piles, with burning; hemorrhoidal diathesis) ; Sang. nit.; Silico- sulph-calcite of Alumina — (cancer); Slag -— last iron furnace cinder — (anal itching, piles, and consti- pation ; housemaid's knee). Dos. -- Third to sixth potency. Locally, the Cerate has proved invaluable in many rectal complaints.