Dioscorea villosa

Dioscorea villosa
(wild yam)
* As a remedy for many kinds of pain, especially colic, and in severe, painful affections of
abdominal and pelvic viscera; it ranks with the polychrests of the Materia Medica.
* Persons of feeble digestive powers; tea-drinkers, with much flatulence.
* Gall stone colic.
Mind
- Calls things by the wrong name.
Head
- Dull pain in both temples; better pressure, but worse afterwards.
- Buzzing in head.
Stomach
- Mouth dry and bitter in morning, tongue coated, no thirst.
- Belching of large quantities of offensive gas.
- Neuralgia of stomach.
- Sinking at the pit of the stomach; pyrosis.
- Pain along sternum and extending into arms.
- Eructations of sour, bitter wind, with hiccough.
- Sharp pain in epigastrium, relieved by standing erect.
Abdomen
- Pains suddenly shift to different parts; appear in remote localities, as fingers and toes.
- Rumbling, with emission of much flatus.
- Griping, cutting in hypogastric region, with intermittent cutting in stomach and small
intestines.
- Colic; better walking about; pains radiate from abdomen, to back, chest, arms; worse,
bending forwards and while lying.
- Sharp pains from liver, shooting upward to rightnipple.
- Pain from gall-bladder to chest, back, and arms.
- Renal colic, with pain in extremities.
- Hurried desire for stool.
Heart
- Angina pectoris; pain back of sternum into arms;labored breathing; feeble action of heart.
- Especially with flatulence and pain through chest and tightness across.
Rectum
- Haemorrhoids, with darting pains to liver; look like bunches or grapes or red cherries;
protrude after stool, with pain in anus.
- Diarrhoea (worse in morning), yellowish, followed by exhaustion, as if flatus and feces
were hot.
Male
- Relaxation and coldness of organs.
- Pains shoot into testicles from region of kidneys.
- Strong-smelling sweat on scrotum and pubes.
- Emissions in sleep, or from sexual atony, with weak knees.
Female
- Uterine colic; pains radiate from uterus.
- Vivid dreams.
Respiratory
- Tight feeling all along sternum.
- Chest does not seem to expand on breathing.
- Short-winded.
Extremities
- Lameness in back; worse, stooping.
- Aching and stiffness in joints.
- Sciatica; pains shoot down thigh; worse, right side; better, when perfectly still.
- Felons in beginning, when pricking is first felt.
- Nails brittle.
- Cramps in flexors of fingers and toes.
Modalities
- Worse, evening and night, lying down, and doubling up. Better, standing erect, motion in
open air; pressure.
Relationship
- Antidotes: Chamom.; Camph.
- Compare : Colocy. (differs in modalities)
- ; Nux; Cham.; Bry.
Dose
- Tincture, to third potency.