Dioscorea Villosa
Wild Yam, Dioscor, Dioscorea Dios.Below are the main rubriks (i.e strongest indications or symptoms) of Dioscorea Villosa in traditional homeopathic usage, not reviewed by the FDA.
▲ GENERAL
General
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.
Dose
Tincture, to third potency.
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Worse
WORSE, evening and night; Lying down, and Doubling up.
Better
BETTER, standing erect, motion in open air; pressure.
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Compare
Compare: Colocynthis Coloc ( differs in modalities); Nux Vomica Nux; Chamomilla Cham.; Bryonia Bry.
Antidotes
Antidotes: Chamomilla Chamom.; Camphora Camph.
⥄ Show reverse lookup of Dioscorea Villosa relationships from all sources▲ HEAD
Head
Buzzing in head.
Headache
Dull pain in both temples; better pressure, but worse afterwards
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Chest
Especially with flatulence and pain through chest and tightness across.
Respiration
Heart; Angina pectoris; pain back of sternum into arms; labored breathing; Feeble action of heart
Tight feeling all along sternum
Chest does not seem to expand on breathing
Short-winded.
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Abdomen
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.
Pains suddenly shift to different parts; Appear in remote localities, as fingers and toes
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 right nipple
Pain from gall-bladder to chest, back, and arms
Renal colic, with pain in extremities
Hurried desire for stool.
Pain
during diarrhoea (colic)
wandering pain; shift suddenly to distant parts of body
navel; region of navel
cramping, griping; morning
cramping, griping; late morning
pressing; region of navel
cutting; navel; around navel
Stomach; pain; cutting
Flatus
Rumbling, with emission of much flatus
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Rectum
Hemorrhoids, with darting pains to liver; look like bunches of 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.
Haemorrhoids; morning
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Male
Pains shoot into testicles from region of kidneys
Strong-smelling sweat on scrotum and pubes
Male
thick emission from penis
thick emission from penis; without dreams
thick emission from penis; without erections
Womb
Female; Uterine colic; pains radiate from uterus
Genitals
Male; Relaxation and coldness of organs
Emissions in sleep, or from sexual atony, With weak knees.
Vivid dreams.
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Extremities, limbs
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.
Cramps; fingers; during childbirth
Skin; felon (whitlow, onychia, paronychia, foot rot, etc.); whitlow, foot rot
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