DIOSCOREA VILLOSA

DIOSCOREA VILLOSA. [Diosc. vill.] Wild Yam. Cushing. Dioscoreaceae.

► Irritable. ► Depressed in spirits : 22. ► Calls things by names.

► Dull, confused, dizzy ; mouth dry and bitter.

► Dull pains worse after dinner. ► Sharp pains over the eyes. ► Squeezing pains in head ; temples as if in a vise ; nausea, dry mouth.

► Eyes weak, sore, smart ; lids gummed together. ► Feeling as of a round substance, or as of sticks in the eyes.

► Pains in the ears, worse blowing the nose. ► Pains sharp, or dull, squeezing before and behind ears, extending to the angles of the jaws.

► Bad smelling in nose as if bilious. ► Nose stopped up, dry ; or watery discharge. (See Throat.).

► White, dry yellow-white ; brown and sore on the tip, worse in the morning. ► Bites the tongue ; spasmodic closure of the jaw. ► Taste : bitter, nasty ; rough ; or flat, pappy.

► Dry, yet full of sticky mucus ; no thirst.

► Fauces dry, burning, smarting, sore.

► After excess in eating, errors in diet, or in tea drinkers, excessive flatulent colic.

► Belching large quantities of wind, tasteless, sour, bitter, or like rotten eggs, with only partial relief of pains.

► Distress, with frequent sharp pains ; must unfasten clothing ; distress and burning in the morning ; belching relieves. ► Hard pain in region of stomach. ► Sharp, cramping pain in pit of stomach, then belching of enormous quantities of tasteless wind ; hiccough and discharge of flatus from bowels.

► Cutting pains in stomach and region of gall-bladder ; gastrodynia. ► Sharp pains in the liver, extending to the nipple.

► Faintness at epigastrium. ► Steady, twisting pains in the bowels, worse lower, constantly changing ; worse lying down. ► Gripping in the umbilical region ; constant dull aching with sharp, cutting pains all through intestines. ► Rumbling in the bowels ; passes large quantities of flatus ; severe pains. ► Constant distress in naval and hypogastric regions ; cutting colicky pains ; belching. ► Colic bends him double ; worse lying down ; better by stretching, or by rising and walking ; a constant pain, worse at intervals. ► Flatulent spasm. ► Flatulence after meals ; wind colic, but with little or no hepatic derangement. ► Pains begin in a small spot and radiate thence upward and downward ; may, early in the attack, extend to stomach, liver, spleen or uterus ; often the pains jump from place to place, especially to a distant part.

► Sudden urging to stool, especially in the morning. ► Expulsion of flatus difficult and with violence ; often with watery evacuations, but only with partial relief of pains. ► Stool in the morning, followed by protrusion of hemorrhoids, with pain in distress. ► Sensation as if the feces were hot ; hot flatus. ► Profuse, thin yellow stool in the morning ; doses not relieve pains in bowels ; stools offensive, bilious ; faintness.

► Constant excitement of genitals ; frequent erections. ► Sexual desire diminished. ► Emissions during sleep without erections ; genitals cold, relaxed ; weakness, especially weak knees, afterwards ; depressed in spirits. ► Pains in the inguinal region extending into the testicles. ► Strong-smelling sweat on scrotum and pubes.

► Hacking cough from tickling low down in throat.

► Pains in the region of the nipples. ► Pains through the lungs to the back and vice versa. ► Tightness across upper part of chest ; distressed feeling.

► Sharp pains arresting breathing and motion, with faintness.

► Lame and stiff ; weakness in small of back. ► Dull pain in lumber region, worse bending the spine ; sharp, extending to the testicles.

► Pain in right leg from point of exit of sciatic nerve, felt only when moving the limb, or when sitting up.

► Sharp pain in various parts of the body and limbs ; darting from place to place. ► Limbs feel weak, worse at the knees : 22.

► Pains, except headache, are usually relieved by motion. Stooping, bending : 19, 31.

29, 33. Lying down : 19. Sitting up : 33. Stretching : 19. Walking : 19.

► Strengthens nerves ; later, trembling, languor, faintness, numbness and tingling. ► Acts, probably, chiefly upon the nerves, especially upon the solar plexus and upon the spinal nerves, causing pains over the body and in the viscera, also reflex pains.

► Morning : 11, 17, 20.

► Generally better in open air.

► Chilliness : with bitter mouth ; with aching bones, backache, pains in lungs, sore throat. ► Cold extremities, feeble pulse, but no fever ; with the colic. ► Sweats easily, while chilly.

► Pains spread upward and downward ; especially from abdomen to distant parts.

► Joints painful ; weak, worse knees : 22.

► Nails seem unusually brittle. ► Itching, burning of various parts. ► Panaritium, early when pains are sharp and agonizing, or when the picking is felt ; nails brittle.

► Camphor. seems to increase its effects. ► Compare with : Coloc. (in latter colic is less continuous and is better from pressure and bending double).