DIOSCOREA VILLOSA
Source indications
Allen's Keynotes
- 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 twisted by a powerful hand
- colic pains: < from bending forward and while lying; > on standing erect or bending backwards
- emissions during sleep; vivid dreams of women all night
- knees weak
- genitals cold
- great despondency
- felons; early when pains are sharp and agonizing, when pricking is first felt
- nails brittle
- disposition to paronychia
- < lying; sitting; bending double
- > motion; walking difficult, compelled to walk even though tired