(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. Gallstone
colic. | ||
| Mind. Calls
things by the wrong name. | ||
| Head. Dull pain
in both temples; better pressure, but worse afterwards. Buzzing in
head. | ||
| Stomach. Mouth
dry and bitter in morning, tongue coated, no thirst. Belching of large
quantities of offensive gas. Neuralgia of stomach. Sinking at the pit of
the stomach; pyrosis. Pain along sternum and extending into
arms. Eructations of sour, bitter wind, with hiccough. Sharp
pain in epigastrium, relieved by standing erect. | ||
| Abdomen. Pains
suddenly shift to different parts: appear in remote localities, as
fingers and toes. Rumbling, with emission of much flatus. Griping,
cutting in hypogastric region, with 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
gallbladder to chest, back, and arms. Renal colic, with pain in
extremities. Hurried desire for stool. | ||
| Heart. Angina
pectoris; pain back of sternum into arms; labored breathing; feeble
action of heart. Especially with flatulence and pain through chest and
tightness across. | ||
| Rectum.
Hemorrhoids, with darting pains to liver; look like bunches of grapes or
red cherries; protrude after stool, with pain in anus. Diarrhea (worse in
morning), yellowish, followed by exhaustion, as if flatus and feces were
hot. | ||
| Male.
Relaxation and coldness of organs. Pains shoot into testicles from
region of kidneys. Strong smelling sweat on scrotum and pubes.
Emissions in sleep, or from sexual atony, with weak
knees. | ||
| Female. Uterine
colic; pains radiate from uterus. Vivid dreams. | ||
| Respiratory.
Tight feeling all along sternum. Chest does not seem to expand on
breathing. Short-winded. | ||
| Extremities.
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. | ||
| Modalities.
Worse, evening and night, lying down, and doubling up.
Better, standing erect, motion in open air; pressure. | ||
| Relationship.
Antidote: Cham. Compare: Coloc. (differs in modalities); Nux-v.; Cham.; Bry. | ||
| Dose. Tincture,
to third potency. |