Ratanhia


Dr. S.R. Phatak describes the clinically confirmed symptoms of the homeopathic remedy Ratanhia in his Concise Materia Medica, published in 1977….


Generalities

      Anal and rectal symptoms are very, marked; affects teeth and nipples. Pains here and there. Sense of constriction. Haemorrhages; passive. Pin worms. Dark thin scrawny persons. Cracks; fissures. Acts as a tonic for delicate and nervous women to prevent miscarriage, in those who have never been able to go to their full term.

Worse

      Night. Anxiety, uneasiness of mind. Exertion. Touch. Straining at stools.

Better

      Cool bathing. Hot bath. Walking in open air. Exercise.

Mind

      Irritable, peevish and quarrelsome.

Head

      Pains in middle of forehead as if brain would fall out. Bursting headache, when straining at stool, or after stools.

Eyes

      Lids feel stiff. Very rapid twitching of eyelids. Pterygium.

Mouth

      As if cool air came from teeth. Toothache worse at night; must walk about. As of a cobweb about the right side of the mouth.

Stomach

      Cutting or griping pain better eructations. Violent painful hiccough.

Abdomen

      Constriction, or as of sharp splinters of broken glass in rectum; stool is forced with great straining and followed by prolonged aching-burning, better hot water. Fissures of anus, with great constriction and burning like fire. Dry, itching anus. Pin worms. Ascarides. Discharge of blood from rectum with or without stools.

Female

      Metrorrhagia. Cracks in nipples, in nursing women. Compelled to get up at night and walk about during pregnancy, with toothache.

Chest

      Pain in the ribs on stepping.

Related

      Nit-ac; Paeon.

S.R. Phatak
A pioneer of Homoeopathy in Maharashtra, Dr Shankar Raghunath Phatak was born on 6th September, 1896. He did his MBBS from Grant Medical College, in 1924. Started his practice but somehow not satisfied with Allopathic Treatment.

He was convinced about Homoeopathy while going through Sir William Osler's writings on 'History of Medicine' so switched over to an entirely Homoeopathic Practice in 1932. He also started working on Homoeopathic literature along with his Practice.

He has contributed immensely to homoeopathic literature. He was an ardent follower of Dr Boger. His Repertory is based on Boger's ''A Synoptic key to Materia Medica'.