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Dioscorea Villosa

30CDioscorea
Wild Yam · "The Backward Bending Colic Remedy"
dios.PolychrestPlantCommonPsoric
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🎯 A powerful remedy for severe, shifting abdominal and pelvic pains, particularly colic and neuralgic conditions.
📖 Boericke writes:
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 Materia Medica. Persons of feeble digestive powers; tea-drinkers, with much flatulence.Gall stone colic.
👤 Constitution
•Persons of feeble digestive powers, often tea-drinkers who suffer from significant flatulence.
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Gall stone colic.
introduction
Sinking at the pit of the stomach; pyrosis.
stomach
Pain along sternum and extending into arms.
stomach
Pains suddenly shift to different parts; appear in remote localities, as fingers and toes.
abdomen
Sharp pains from liver, shooting upward to right nipple.
abdomen
Angina pectoris; pain back of sternum into arms; labored breathing; feeble action of heart.
heart
Relaxation and coldness of organs.
male
Strong-smelling sweat on scrotum and pubes.
male
🩺 Systems & Indications
🧠Mind
Used for mental confusion where the patient misidentifies objects.
Calls things by the wrong name.
🔑 Modalities
↓Worse from
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💊 Dosage & Potency
Tincture
Mother Tincture
🕒As directed
Primary Dosage
3rd
Decimal
🕒As directed
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🚫 Antidotes
Chamomilla →Camphora →
🔄 Compare With
Colocynthis →Nux Vomica →Chamomilla →Bryonia Alba →
📚 Sources & References

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