Common Homeo
Name = Dioscorea
Full name = Dioscorea Villosa
Abbreviated Name
= Dios.
English Name = Wild Yam
Guiding Symptoms. It is one of the best polychrest remedies
of the Materia Medica. This remedy acts well in patients of shabby digestion,
found of tea with more flatulence. It also give better results in gallstone pain. Can be used for many
kinds of pain, particularly cruel
painful affection of abdominal and pelvic internal organs.
Mind Symptoms. Patient forgets name of persons and things
while talking.
Head Symptoms. Bustling feels in head. Monotonous pain in temples
area which better from pressing.
Heart Symptoms. Flatulence and pain in upper body and stiffness
all over the body. Angina pectoris pain goes from sternum into arms, difficult inhalation,
weak action of heart.
Stomach Symptoms. Tumbling
at the hollow of the stomach. Producing of large amount of odious gas. Tearing
pain in epigastrium region which is calmed by standing upright. Mouth of the
patient dehydrated and sour in morning, tongue covered and having no thirst. Pain in
sternum, goes into arms. Eructations of tart and pungent wind, with hiccough.
Male Symptoms. Pains rushed from kidneys into testicles. Chilliness of sex organs. discharge while sleeping or from sexual thinking. Smelling bad sweat on scrotum and pubes.
Female Symptoms. Dramatic thoughts. Uterine colic and pains emit
from uterus.
Abdomen Symptoms. Pains abruptly shift to various parts, appear in isolated limbs, like fingers and
toes. Sudden need for stool. Hurtful pain in hypo-gastric area with irregular
critical pain in stomach and small intestines. Colic which betters by walk. Pains
emit from abdomen to back side and arms which worsens from bending ahead. Renal
pain. Pointed pains rushed from liver
toward right nipple. Pain goes from gallbladder to back and arms.
Extremities. Hurting and rigidity in joints. contraction in flexors of finger
and toes. In sciatica pains goes towards thighs which worse in right side and better
when entirely at rest. Lameness in backside worsens from bending over.
Modalities. Worse in evening
time and at night, from lying down
and running. Better from footing upright, in open
air and by applying pressure.
Relationship.
i. Compare with:- Nuxvomica, Chamomilla, Colocynth, and Bryonia
i. Compare with:- Nuxvomica, Chamomilla, Colocynth, and Bryonia
ii. Antidoted by:- Chamomilla
Dosage. Mother tincture (Q) and 30 or 200C.