Characteristic Symptoms
Biting, itching in anus, the orifice seems swollen. Sudden pasty diarrhoea, with faintness in abdomen and burning in anus after stool, then internal chilliness. Painful ulcer, oozing offensive moisture on perineum near anus.
Therapeutics
Pasty diarrhoea, followed by burning in anus and internal chilliness. Haemorrhoids, with ulceration; the anus and surrounding parts purple, covered with crusts, painful ulcers in ano; fissures of the anus, stool followed by burning and biting, exudation of offensive moisture. (Ratanhia). Abscess below the coccyx. Nightmare. (Symptom in provings, but also recommended in this affection by Dioscorides and Pliny).
Dr. Oscar Hansen, M.D., from Denmark, was a corresponding member of the British Homeopathic Society and the American Institute of Homeopathy. His book 'Textbook of Materia Medica and Therapeutics of Rare Homeopathic Remedies' was published in 1899.