- Allen HC — The keynotes that separate this remedy from its nearest neighbours.
“Wild Yam. (Dioscoreaceae.) Persons of feeble digestive powers, old or young. Flatulence after meals or after eating, especially of tea-drinkers; are often subject to violent colic. Griping pains in abdomen about umbilicus. Violent twisting colic, occurring in regular paroxysms, as if intestines were grasped and…”
- Allen TF — A compiled symptom record drawing on proving reports and other named observations.
“Dioscorea villosa, Linn. Natural Order , Dioscoreaceæ. Common name , Wild yam. Preparation , Tincture of the root (or triturations of the resinoid, Dioscorëin). Authorities.”
- Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“Wild Yam 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 . Calls things by the wrong name. Dull pain in…”
- Boger (GA) — Which general headings this remedy belongs under — the analytical scaffolding.
“AIR Open, Amel.:- IN ROOM, agg., air hunger, etc. BORING, grinding, etc. CALCULI, atheroma, etc. CRAMP, colic, etc. CUTTING DIRECTION of sensations, Radiating FLATULENCE, Left INCONTINENCE, stool, urine, sexual, etc. NERVE PAIN PAROXYSMS, repeated (Comp. Spasmodic.) PRESSURE, Amel.; Lying on painful or affected side…”
- Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“villosa. Wild yam. N. O. Dioscoreaceæ. Tincture of fresh root, or trituration of resinoid, Dioscorein. Abdomen, distended / Acne / Angina pectoris / Biliousness / Cholerine / Chorea / Colds / Colic / Constipation / Cough / Cramps / Diarrhœa / Dysentery / Dysmenorrhœa / Dyspepsia / Enteralgia / Flatulence /…”
- Guernsey — The leading characteristics — a compact bridge from repertory result to remedy study.
“Head.--Dull pain in forehead. Mouth and tongue dry, with bitter taste. Gastric.--Belching of wind, bitter; sour; tasteless. Painful distress in stomach, has to unfasten clothing; relieved by raising wind; burning in stomach. Abdomen.--Excessive pain in; cutting or dull grinding pain in region of liver. Severe…”
- Hale — The introduction story — early pathogenetic and clinical evidence for medicines new to Hale's generation.
“(Wild Yam Root — Colic Root.) Description — This is a plant with slender twining stem, herbaceous, rising from large, matted, knotty rootstalks. It climbs bushes, old fences, etc. The stem is smooth, rarely villous, green or greenish brown, dying every fall. Leaves, mostly alternate ; sometimes nearly opposite or in…”
- Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Wild Yam. Dioscoreaceæ. A perennial creeper, growing wild in this country, principally in Southern States, on bushes and fences. Introduced and proved extensively by Cushing (see Monograph) ; also proved by Woods, Burt and Nichols (See Allen's Encyclopædia, vol. 4, p. 123 ). The tincture is prepared from the root…”
- Hughes & Dake — The source evidence — provings and poisonings retained with their experimental context.
“DIOSCOREA . Dioscorèa villosa, L. Hairy yam. Nat. Ord ., Dioscoreacea. I. Provings.- 1 . Dr. BURT took, May 5th, 1864, at 10 a.m., 30 dr. of fluid extr. After h. began to have pain in whole epigastrium and region of gall-bladder, quite severe, of cutting, tearing character, at times spasmodic. At 3 p.m., distress in…”
- Lippe (Red) — Keynotes with the most-trusted ones marked as red-line symptoms.
“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…”
- Nash — The comparisons — the remedy set beside the ones it is most often confused with.
“Colic pain begins at umbilicus and radiates to all parts of the body, even extremities.”
- Roberts — Location, sensation, and modality — the three-fold basis Roberts used to separate remedies.
“Dioscorea will be found of value in rheumatic or neuralgic colic as described above. The pains are grinding and griping in character in whatever locality they are found. In sciatic rheumatism we find a well marked characteristic when there is entire relief from pain while the patient is at rest; this indicates…”
