Ratanhia peruviana
as William Boericke recorded it in Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 1927
Krameria
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General
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
Bursting in head after stool, and when sitting 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 constricted. Dry heat at anus, with sudden knife-like stitches. Stools must be forced with great effort; protrusion of hæmorrhoids. Fissures of anus, with great constriction, burning like fire, as do the hæmorrhoids; 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.
Relationships
Compare: Paeon; Croton (rectal neuralgia); Sanguin nit (diseases of rectum); Macuna prurens-Dolichos-piles, with burning; hæmorrhoidal diathesis; Silico-sulphocalcite of Alumina; Stag-blast iron furnace cinder––(anal itching, piles, and constipation; housemaid's knee); abdominal flatulent distension and lumbago. Analogue to Lycopod.
Dose
Third to sixth potency. Locally, the Cerate has proved invaluable in many rectal complaints.
What the other books say about Ratanhia peruviana
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Ratanhia peruviana in Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
- Ratanhia peruviana in Boger — A compressed key — the generals and the characteristic modalities, with very little narrative.
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Create a free accountCite this page. William Boericke. Homoeopathic Materia Medica. 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927). Ratanhia peruviana — General. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boericke/ratanhia-peruviana. Published 1927: public domain in the US (since 2023) and in India (author died 1929). Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.