Dioscorea villosa
By Adolph von Lippe — Keynotes and Red Line Symptoms of the Materia Medica
Common name: wild farn.
Calls things by wrong names (C.). Irritability and restlessness (Ars., Phos.).
Persons of feeble digestive powers, old or young (Ant-C., Carb-V., Lyc., Nux-V, Puls., Sep.) (A.).
Belching of large quantities of offensive gas (Asaf., Carb-V., Lyc., Nat-S.) (Br.).
Burning in the stomach (Ars., Carb-V., Iris, Lach., Lyc., Nat-P., Phos., Sulph,) (G.).
Mouth very dry, bitter and clammy in the morning (N.).
Pains shoot from liver to right nipple (Chel) (B.).
Griping pains in the abdomen about the umbilicus (Coloc., Nux-V.) (A.).
Hurried desire for stool (Aloe, Sulph.) (B.).
Flatulence after meals or after eating, especially of tea-drinkers (Chin., Lach., Puls., Thuj.) (A.).
Distressing pyrosis (Nux-V., Puls.) (Hlm.).
VIOLENT TWISTING COLIC OCCURRING IN REGULAR PAROXYSMS, AS IF THE INTESTINES WERE GRASPED AND TWISTED BY A POWERFUL HAND (A.).
Dull, hard, grinding pain in liver or in region of gall-bladder (N.).
COLICKY PAINS WORSE FROM BENDING FORWARD AND WHILE LYING; BETTER ON STANDING ERECT OR BENDING BACKWARDS (reverse of Coloc.) (A.).
Colic with rumbling and passing of much flatus (Carb-V., Lyc.) (N.).
Colic pain begins at umbilicus and radiates to all parts of the body even extremities (N.).
Seminal emissions during sleep; vivid dreams of women all night (Staph.); knees weak; genitals cold; great despondency (Phos., Staph.) (A.).
Stong-smelling sweat on the scrotum and pubes (Br.)
Hæmorrhoidal tumours like red cherries, with pain. and distress in the anus (C.).
Diarrhoea early in the morning, driving out of bed (Aloe, Sulph.) (C.).
Very profuse, thin, yellow stool in the morning (Aloe) (C.).
Sciatica; right side; only felt when moving the limb or when sitting; better when lying perfectly quiet (C.).
Violent dysmemorrhoea (Bell., Coloc., Mag-P., Nux-V., Puls., Sep., (B.).
Dysentery with violent lancinating pains in the bowels (Rg.).
Spasmodic stricture of the urethra (Apis, Berb., Canth., Clem., Gels., Hep., Kali-B., Lyc., Merc., Nat-M., Petr., Sep., Sil., Thuj.) (Bt.).
Renal colic (Berb., Lyc., Nux-V., Ocimum, Puls.).
Pain particularly in the right ureter (Lyc.).
Pain from the ureter extending to the penis and testes (Nux-V.).
Constant desire to pass urine.
Disposition to paronychia (Hep., Sil.) (A.).
Felons: early when pains are sharp and agonizing; when pricking is first felt (A.).
Nails brittle (Ant-C., Graph., Thuj.) (A.).
AGGRAVATION: From lying down; from-sitting; from bending double; in the evening; at night; from seminal emissions.
AMELIORATION: From motion; from bending backwards; from standing erect; from pressure; from walking; and from riding.
RELATIONSHIP: Compare: Bell., Bry., Cham., Coloc., Gels., Kali-C., Lyc., Mag-C., Nux-V., Phos., Podo., Rhus-T., Sil., Staph., Thuj.
Antidotes: Camph., Cham.