DIOSCOREA VILLOSA

Source indications

Boericke's Materia Medica

  • Feeble digestive powers
  • Flatulence
  • Gall stone colic
  • Calls things by the wrong name
  • Dull pain in both temples
  • Buzzing in head
  • Mouth dry and bitter in morning
  • Tongue coated
  • No thirst
  • Belching of offensive gas
  • Neuralgia of stomach
  • Sinking at the pit of the stomach
  • Pyrosis
  • Pain along sternum extending into arms
  • Eructations of sour, bitter wind, with hiccough
  • Sharp pain in epigastrium relieved by standing erect
  • Pains suddenly shift to different parts
  • Pains appear in remote localities, as fingers and toes
  • Rumbling, with emission of much flatus
  • Griping, cutting in hypogastric region
  • Intermittent cutting in stomach and small intestines
  • Colic better walking about
  • Pains radiate from abdomen to back, chest, arms
  • Worse bending forwards and while lying
  • Sharp pains from liver shooting upward to right nipple
  • Pain from gall-bladder to chest, back, and arms
  • Renal colic, with pain in extremities
  • Hurried desire for stool
  • Angina pectoris
  • Pain back of sternum into arms
  • Labored breathing
  • Feeble action of heart
  • Tightness across chest
  • Hemorrhoids with darting pains to liver
  • Hemorrhoids look like bunches or grapes or red cherries
  • Hemorrhoids protrude after stool with pain in anus
  • Diarrhea worse in morning
  • Diarrhea yellowish
  • Diarrhea followed by exhaustion
  • Relaxation and coldness of male organs
  • Pains shoot into testicles from region of kidneys
  • Strong-smelling sweat on scrotum and pubes
  • Emissions in sleep
  • Sexual atony with weak knees
  • Uterine colic
  • Pains radiate from uterus
  • Vivid dreams
  • Tight feeling along sternum
  • Chest does not seem to expand on breathing
  • Short-winded
  • Lameness in back worse stooping
  • Aching and stiffness in joints
  • Sciatica
  • Pains shoot down thigh
  • Worse right side
  • Better when perfectly still
  • Felons in beginning when pricking is first felt
  • Nails brittle
  • Cramps in flexors of fingers and toes