Dioscorea villosa
作者：Henry N. Guernsey — Key-Notes to the Materia Medica
Historical reference for practitioners and students. The statements below reflect the named author’s homeopathic teaching and do not establish treatment effectiveness. This text is not medical advice and must not replace appropriate diagnosis or care.
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 colic-like, cutting pains about the umbilicus; also griping or cramping pains. Pains radiating upward and downward until the whole body, including fingers and toes, becomes involved. Flatus abundant; rumbling and rolling of; passing large quantities of, downward. Violent twisting colic, coming in paroxysms. Colic comes on or is worse while lying down, or bending double, is relieved by rising and walking.
Stool.--Diarrhœa, thin, yellow. Hard, dry, lumpy stool.
Generalities.--Dioscorea differs from the Colocynth colic in being worse from bending double (Coloc. better) and better on rising and walking (Coloc. worse). Felons, disposition to, with tendency to colic; should be taken at the first symptom of pricking in the finger, or even later on.