Ratanhia



Ears

Tearing in ears. Itching and shooting in ear. Violent stitch in right ear, chirping in right ear, crawling as if insect in right ear. Nocturnal tinkling, and ringing in ears.

Nose

Itching in nose. Violent itching on tip of nose better by rubbing. Nostrils inflamed and scabby, with burning sensations. Epistaxis. Violent nose-bleed, three times a day, for five days in succession. Dryness of nose, with frequent sneezing. Dry coryza, with complete stoppage of nose.

Face

Heat in face. Tearing pain in face and jaw bones. Violent tearing in left malar bone, evenings. Sensation of cobwebs above right side of mouth. Tearing in inner surface of lips in a small spot. Tearing in left side of lower jaw and corresponding teeth. Burning vesicles on the red part of upper lip.

Teeth

Toothache in evening, especially after lying down (compelling one to rise and walk about), or in morning, generally with tearing or jerking or at times with digging pains. Pulsative pain in teeth. Bleeding of teeth. Painful sensation of coldness and elongation in the molars, and as if coldness rushed out of them. (Violent pain in one left upper incisor, which is painful to the touch.) Acid blood from gums on sucking them. Burning at tip of tongue.

Mouth

Dryness of mouth at night. Tension and burning sensation on tongue. Tasteless water collects in mouth. Breath offensive.

Throat

Sore, throat, generally felt during empty deglutition. Painful spasmodic contraction in throat, which stops the voice (unable to speak a loud word).

Appetite

Mawkish taste in morning, in bed. Thirst, in evening. Anorexia, with dislike to food and drink. Constant desire to eat. Risings, with taste of food, empty.

Stomach

Violent hiccough, which causes pain in stomach. Long-continued hiccough after dinner. Nausea and disgust, especially at night (1 a.m.), with retching and vomiting of food ( worse in open air). Vomiting: of water, of mucus streaked with blood. Pains as from ulceration in stomach. Excessive distension of stomach. Stomach feels too full. Digestion more difficult. Rolling and constriction in stomach. Painful constriction of stomach, which is sometimes removed by risings. Sensation in stomach, and above scrobiculus, as if abdomen had been cut to pieces, worse deep breathing. Heat and burning sensation in stomach and epigastrium. Sudden painful bursting in pit of stomach.

Abdomen

Repeated violent sticking in right (and l.) hypochondrium. Pullings, and a sensation of coldness, in umbilical region. Pinchings in abdomen, and sides of abdomen, sometimes with a burning sensation. Movements in sides of abdomen as of something alive. Shootings, pinchings, and contraction of groins. Pinching in both groins better by emission of flatus, morning on waking. Griping in lower abdomen, externally violent itching. Constrictive pain in small spot in groins, in right groin. Sticking in groins, in afternoon while sitting. Dragging downward in both groins, as before menses, with discharge of mucus from vagina.

Stool and Anus

Hard and broken evacuations, with urgent want to evacuate (with straining) and protrusion of haemorrhoidal excrescences. Ineffectual want to evacuate, with troublesome pains in loins. Straining, so hard that she cried out, great protrusion of haemorrhoids, followed for a long time by burning in anus. Sudden stitches. Fissures, excruciating pains immediately after stool, if costive. Fissure with constriction. Dry heat, with sudden stitches, like stabs with pen-knife. Oozing from anus. Burning in anus before and during a diarrhoea-like stool. Very urgent desire for normal stool. Diarrhoea with evacuation of some drops of blood, accompanied by dragging in groins and rumbling in abdomen. Stool yellow, diarrhoea-like, with burning like fire in anus. Sensation as if splinters of glass sticking in anus and rectum in every direction, as if rectum protruded and went back with a jerk, better in hot sitz bath. Severe itching about anus. Pin- worms. Soft loose evacuations, preceded by cuttings, with burning pains in anus, before and after. Thin, fetid stools, burning like fire in anus. Sanguineous diarrhoea. Discharge of blood from the rectum, with or without stool. Pains in head, as if it would burst (during and) after evacuation.

Urinary Organs

Frequent and urgent want to urinate, with scanty emission. More frequent and more abundant emission of urine, even at night. Pale urine. Urine more scanty, which soon deposits a cloud, and becomes turbid. Burning in urethra (and root of penis) when urinating.

Male Sexual Organs

(The chronic gonorrhoea became much worse.) Burning in root of penis while urinating. Itching in scrotum not better by scratching.

Female Sexual Organs

Pressure in groins, as of a general bearing down towards genital organs, followed by leucorrhoea. Leucorrhoea with itching in rectum and discharge of bloody mucus. Catamenia too early and of too long duration, and too copious, with pains in abdomen and loins. Metrorrhagia. Miscarriage. Uterine pains following retrocession of eruption on loins. Menses suppressed, with swelling of abdomen and breasts, simulating a pregnancy of several months, accompanied by profuse leucorrhoea and constant pain in kidneys. Menses delayed. Fissure of nipples in nursing women.

Respiratory Organs

Dry cough, with tickling in larynx, and pain of ulceration in chest. Some tight mucus evacuated with great difficulty.

Chest

Pressure at chest on the least exertion, with shortness of breath. Violent pressure in chest as from a stone, with short breath, on slight exertion. Rush of blood and heat to chest, with difficult breathing. Ulcerative pain in chest during and after coughing. Burning stitch in last ribs near back on stepping. Pain as if cut to pieces in small spot in upper sternum. Coarse stitch as with a knife in sternum, felt at every breath on ascending steps, takes away breath. As if pointed instrument sticking in sternum just above ensiform cartilage. Sticking burning cutting beneath left chest, along one rib, evening. Sticking and drawing along left clavicle as if skin drawn in. Stitch in left ribs, so violent it causes her to cry out. Several fine stitches beneath left breast, on ribs, extending downward. Throbbing-burning cutting and ulcerative pains beneath left breast near pit of stomach worse motion, ameliorates pressure. Painful constriction in both sides of chest. Shootings in chest, especially when going up stairs, with obstructed respiration. Congestion (of blood to) chest, with heat, and impeded respiration.

Heart

Sharp sticking in precordial region, rather external. Pulse full.

Neck and Back

Drawing tension, from nape of neck to the bottom of spine. Stiffness in nape on turning head, better on violent motion. Tearing in nape of neck, with heaviness of head. Pain in loins and back, as if they had been beaten. Bruised pain in whole spine. Bruised pain in loins and hips, morning rising, better on motion.

Limbs

Tearing in limbs. Contraction of flexor muscles.

Upper Limbs

Tearing in shoulder, arms, forearms, and wrists. Spasmodic and painful contractions in elbows and fingers. Pain in bend of elbow (right) when flexed, better when extended. Violent tearing in right wrist. Jerking, tearing, and stitches in thumbs.

Lower Limbs

Drawing and tearing in thighs, knees, legs, feet and toes. Tension and burning sensation in thighs. Jerking in thighs, calves, and feet. Tearing from left tendo Achillis up. Sprained pain in last joint of big toe, while sitting, better on motion. Sticking and burning tearing in left big toe. Tickling on heels on soles. Voluptuous itching in left sole.

Generalities

Weakness and prostration with anxiety and sweat over whole body. Malaise with frequent yawning, repeated and laboured attempts to draw a long breath and distressing constriction across chest. Sore pain frequently mingled with fine sticking now in chest now in shoulder, &c. Shooting pains, as from excoriation. Jerking in different parts. Haemorrhage.

Skin

Sickly skin. Small red and white pimples which do not suppurate, especially between shoulders and on loins, remaining a long time. Pimples, itching and burning after scratching. Formication and itching eruption on back. Itching: in nape and between scapula, on scrotum, front of thigh, bends of knees &c.

Sleep

Disposition to sleep, especially after dinner. Violent yawning. Retarded sleep. Frequent waking, and prolonged wakefulness. Waking with a start, with trembling, inquietude and fear. Snoring. Dreams: of battles, sick people, quarrels, anger, vexation, funerals, death of friends, earthquakes.

Fever

Predominance of coldness, and of shivering, especially in evening. General chill 8 or 9 p.m. Chilly even in warm room. Heat of whole head with heaviness. Heat and puffiness of face. Dry heat in anus with cuttings. Woke 1 a.m. with sweat, thirst, and dry mouth. Nocturnal perspiration.

John Henry Clarke
John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica