Materia Medica
Dioscorea Villosa
Wild Yam
As a remedy for many kinds of pain, especially colic. and in severe, painful affections of abdominal and pel- vio viscera; it ranks with the polychrests of the Ma- teria Medica. Persons of feeble digestive powers; tea- drinkers, with much flatulence.
Mind
Calls things by the wrong name.
Head
Dull pain in both temples; better pressure, but worse afterwards. Buzzing in head.
Stomach
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 hic- cough. Sharp pain in epigastrium, relieved by standing erect.
Abdomen
Pains suddenly shift to different parts; appear in remote localities, as fingers and toes. Rum- bling, 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. Gallstone colic. Sharp paums from liver, shooting upzward to righit nipple. Pain from gall-bladder to chest, back, and arms. Renal colic, with pain in extremities.
Rectum
Haemorrhoids, with darting pains to liver: look like bunches of grapes or red cherries; pro- trude after stool, with pain in anus.1 Diarrhcea (worse in morning), yellowish, followed by exhaustion, as 1t flatus and faces were hot.
Male
Rrlarution and coldness of organs. Pains shoot into testicles from region of kidneys. Strong- smellimg sweat on scrotum and pubes. Emissions in sleep, por from sexual atony, with weak knees. 299
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.
Heart
Angina pectoris; pain back of sternum into arms; labored lreathing; feeble action of heart. Especially with flatulence and pain through chest and tightness across.
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 brittie. Cramps in fexors of fingers and toes.
Modalities
Worse, evening and night, lying down, and doubling up. Better, standing erect, motion in open air; pressure.
Relationships
Antidotes: Chamom.; Camph. Compare: ( Colocy. (differs in modalities); Nux; Cham., Bry.
Dose
Tincture, to third potency. .DIOSMA LINCARIS (Buku - from Cap of Good Hope) Pathogenically it produces: Somnolence; nervous insomnia; night sweats. Erratic pains, with bad humor, desire to weep or fear cf sickness. Violent vertigo. Cephalalgia, chiefly frontal, radiating to the occiput. Eyes brilliant, with lachrymation or itching, the con- ditions accompanied by a species of stupefaction, with hardness of hearing or noises from aural pressure. Earthy face with disseminated rosaceous eruption. Nausea, fetid breath, with sensation of emptiness. Sen- sation of meteorism, vuith stinging pains in the spleen. Painful sensation in the abdoinen, with pubic pressure - the pressure of the clothing becomes unsupportable, with emission of high-colored, bloody urine. Frequent yellow diarrhcea, worse at night. Catamenia abundant, anticipating, sometimes metrorrhagic in type; crampy pains on ingesting food. Sensation of heat or of cold in the hands, with convulsive movements of the fingers. Weakness of the legs, aggravated by sitting down. Clinically, this pathogeny should be useful in cer- ral affections with dullness or stupefaction; in con- vulsive or epileptiform attacks; in hysteria; in hepatitis (cirrhosis or a trophy); in hematuria with ovarian or uterine lesions. In splenitis, where it should surpass Ceanothus. Mental disorders in nervous or ascetic individuals, par- ticularly where there is constant fear of death, or erotic or mania attacks.(Gastralgia. Gastrocnteritis. Sud- den fright, with trembling and weakness of the legs. (Dr. C. Leal La Rota.)