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DIOSCOREA VILLOSA
(Wild Yarn)
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 Material 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 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 right nipple. 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 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.
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: Cham.; Camph
Compare: Coloc. (differes
in modalities); Nux V.; Cham.; Bry.
Dose:- Tincture, to third potency.
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