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Dioscorea villosa

Wild yam

10 health issues Boericke 1927

Main symptoms

  • Persons of feeble digestive powers; tea-drinkers, with much gas.
  • Gall stone colic.

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Mind & mood

  • Calls things by the wrong name.

What makes it better or worse

Worse

Evening and nightLying downDoubling up

Better

Standing erectMotion in open airPressure

Symptoms by body part

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. Belching 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 gas and pain through chest and tightness across.

Rectum

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. Nerve pain down the leg; 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.

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