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Dioscorea Reference Specimen Botanical Specimen and Materia Medica Identification

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  • Category: 🌿 Herbal Remedy
  • Miasm: Sycotic Miasm
  • Temperament: Neutral
  • Aggravation: 🌆 Evening

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🧬 Remedy Miasm: Sycotic Miasm The Sycotic miasm is characterized by overgrowth and retention. It manifests as warts, tumors, fibroids, joint pain, excessive discharges, and suspicious or secretive mental states.
▲ GENERAL
  • Burt, who made a proving of this remedy, said “The grand sphere for the use ofDioscoreais among colic of the intestines and stomach, where the celiac and umbilical plexuses are in a state of great hyperesthesia, the pain and spasm being unbearable.” Dios, resembles Coloc.
  • in colicky pains, but is better by stretching out and by mov ing about, while Coloc.
  • is better bending double and worse by motion.
  • Colic pain, better from bending backwards.
  • Gallstone colic.
  • Kidney colic.
  • Pains are remittent and paroxysmal.
  • Pains are unbearable, sharp, cutting, twisting, griping, grinding, that dart about or radi ate to distant parts.
  • Pains suddenly cease in one part, then start in another part.
  • Nervous shuddering from pain.
  • Pain in the bowels, spasmodic, twisting, writhing, drawing, lancinating, pulsating, burning.
  • Pains radiate upwards and down wards.
  • Frequent sharp, darting pains from one part to another.
  • Pains spread, especially from abdomen to distant parts.
  • Flatulence after meals in stomach or bowels.
  • Violent colic from fasting, some excess in eating, or some dietary error, as eating old cheese or uncooked fruit, pastry, etc., especially if they are great tea drinkers.
  • Acts on the nerves, abdominal, sciatic and on spinal cord.
  • Chorea with seminal emissions.
  • Painful disorders of abdominal or pelvic viscera.
  • Persons of feeble digestive powers, tea-drinkers with much flatulence.
  • Useful for whitlow
▲ MODALITIES ETC
  • Better from stretching out.
  • Better standing erect.
  • Better bending back.
  • Better motion, hard pressure.
  • Better open air.
  • Worse from tea.
  • Wors e eating.
  • Worse night.
  • Worse lying down.
  • Worse evening.
  • Worse bending forwards.
  • Worse seminal emissions
▲ RELATIONSHIPS
📊 Side-by-Side Comparison:

Antidotes: Cham., Camph. Tamus belongs to the same N. O. Verat. relieved pain in right
temple. Compare: (1) Coloc. - differs in modalities. (2) Bism., Bry. (3) Nux -v. - stomach,Cham.,Coloc., Ip.,
Kali- bi., Podo., Rhus-t., Rum., Stann., Sulph., (4) Aesc., Aloe., Coll., Nux -v. (hemorrhoids), Sars. (urinary
symptoms). (5) Calc., Cann -i. Gels., Calad., Agn., Nux-v. Phos. (sexual organs), Cimic., Aesc., Aloe., Bry.,
Nux-v. (headache), Sil. (whitlow). Verat., (6) Caps. - pain in ears on coughing.

▲ MIND
  • Cross, nervous and easily troubled.
  • Depressed after seminal emissions.
  • Uses wrong words, opposite, putting right for left or vice versa.
  • Calls things by wrong names.
  • Conversation aggravates.
  • Fear in a crowd.
  • Fear of people.
  • Aversion to women.
  • Rest lessness better walking.
  • Feels tired, yet still keeps walking around room.
  • Cross, nervous and easily troubled.
  • Depressed after seminal emissions.
  • Uses wrong words, opposite, putting right for left or vice versa.
  • Calls things by wrong names.
  • Conversation aggravates.
  • Fear in a crowd.
  • Fear of people.
  • Aversion to women.
  • Rest lessness better walking.
  • Feels tired, yet still keeps walking around room
▲ VERTIGO, DIZZINESS
  • Vertigo and dizziness, goes to right while walking.
  • Vertigo inclined to fall backward.
  • Faintness, worse sitting up in bed.
  • Vertigo with numbness, worse lying down.
  • Vertigo from onanism.
  • Vertigo with heat in head, with sharp pains in forehead extending to ears.
  • COMMENTS - Hale considered as a charac teristic: “A constant pain, aggravated at regular intervals by paroxysms of intense suffering.” Any kind of colic or neuralgia with these characteristics may indicate Dios., which stands in the highest rank among stomach and abdominal remedies with import ant actions in many other spheres.
  • Great faintness at stomach.
  • Morning diar rhea.
  • Pains worse at meals, better moving about, cannot sit still.
  • Seminal emissions (passive) with weakness of knees.
  • According to Cushing's proving, the primary effect of Dios, w as to cause strong smelling perspiration of the genitals, con stant excitement with strong and frequent erections day and night, amorous dreams with emissions.
  • Afterwards came relaxed genitals, absence of desire and emissions without erections.
  • In the female sphere it has frequently cured dysmenorrhea, uterine colic and after-pains, also gastric disorders during pregnancy and the menses.
  • J.
  • B.
  • Bell pointed out how closely the throat symptoms of Dios, resemble the initial stage of a cold when it has attacked the fauces and before it has spread to the nose or chest
▲ HEAD
  • Dull pain in both the temples.
  • Temples as if squeezed in a vice, better pressure but worse afterwards.
  • Sharp pain in temples.
  • Head feels as if tied with a band.
  • Sensation as if head were crushed down.
  • Digging, cutting pain in the temples in occiput, over eyes.
  • Buzzing in head.
  • Confused, full head.
  • Fullness in head speedily followed by spasmodic pains in abdomen.
  • Dull pain in both the temples.
  • Temples as if squeezed in a vice, better pressure but worse afterwards.
  • Sharp pain in temples.
  • Head feels as if tied with a band.
  • Sensation as if head were crushed down.
  • Digging, cutting pain in the temples in occiput, over eyes.
  • Buzzing in head.
  • Confused, full head.
  • Fullness in head speedily followed by spasmodic pains in abdomen
▲ EYES
  • Eyes weak, sore and smarting.
  • Sharp pain from right eye to occiput.
  • As if a round ball or stick in the eyes.
  • Hot air steaming out of them.
  • Lachrymation, hot tears, smarting, wants to keep lids closed.
  • Eyelids stiff in morning.
  • Agglutination of the lids mornings
▲ EARS
  • Dull, pressing pains in front of both ears.
  • Both ears feel suddenly stopped up, and are sore to touch.
  • Sharp pain in front and behind the ears.
  • Pains in ears, worse blowing nose or coughing.
  • Itching in internal ears, worse right.
  • Nausea felt in ears.
  • Small balls of wax fall out.
  • Buzzing noise in head.
  • Ringing, buzzing, during headache
▲ FACE
  • Full, grinding, drawing, digging or sharp, darting pains at angle of left lower jaw.
  • Spasmodic closing of jaws, biting tongue when neither eating nor drinking.
  • Lips dry, commissures sore.
  • Little pimples with black heads.
  • Corners of mouth sore.
  • Soreness and sharp aching pain in both parotid glands
▲ MOUTH
  • Mouth dry and bitter in morning.
  • Bitter, bad taste.
  • Dry mouth, but full of sticky mucus, no thirst.
  • Saliva runs out while asleep.
  • Soreness of gums and roof of mouth.
  • Spasmodic closure of the jaw.
  • Nose - Soreness of nostrils.
  • Irritation of nasal passages with much sneezing.
  • Nose stopped up, dry.
  • Discharge of bright red blood from left nostril.
  • Watery discharge.
  • Any bad smell remains in the nose f or a long time.
  • Offensive, bad smell in nose as if bilious.
  • Perspiration - Sweats easily when chilly.
  • Sweat, cold, clammy or of strong odor, on genitals.
  • Sweats from least exertion.
  • Cold, clammy sweat, all over, in angina pectoris
▲ THROAT
  • Irritation, burning and smarting in throat and fauces.
  • Fauces rough, dry, frequent inclination to swallow, but it causes nausea and shudderings.
  • Belching gas, but throat so dry it prevents the escape of gas.
  • Constricted feeling as from some thing tight about neck, makes breathing difficult.
  • Itching in left tonsil.
  • Sharp pain in tonsil up to ear.
  • Left tonsil smarts and itches, with inclination to cough.
  • Constant desire to swallow, but it causes nausea and irritated feeling in throat, left side.
  • Tongue - Heavy brown coating on the tongue, in mornings, no thirst.
  • Sides of tongue sore as if burnt.
  • Bites the tongue, when not eating or drinking.
  • Tip of tongue sore and brown, worse morning
▲ CHEST
  • Angina pectoris with labored breathing and feeble action of the heart.
  • Chest pains radiate to both the arms.
  • Pain along sternum and extending into arms.
  • Tight feeling all along sternum.
  • Chest doesn't seem to expand on breathing.
  • Burning behind top of sternum.
  • Constitutions - Suited to persons of feeble digestive powers, old or young.
  • Cough - Hacking cough from irritation and tickling low down in throat.
  • Cough with pain in epigastrium.
  • Cough with dull pain in temples, brownish-yellow tongue, weak knees.
  • Angina pectoris, pain back of sternum into arms, labored breathing.
  • Feeble action of heart.
  • Pain through chest and tightness across, especially with flatulence.
  • Sharp pain in region of heart, arrests breathing, worse lying left side.
  • Pulse intermitting.
  • Kidneys - Kidney colic, pain extending to testicles and the limbs.
  • Writhing with crampy pains with passing of kidney stone.
  • Spasmodic stricture of urethra with pain about navel, better by pressure, pressure on rectum, paroxysmal colic.
  • Constant desire to pass urine.
  • Tight feeling all along sternum.
  • Chest does not seem to expand on breathing.
  • Short-winded.
  • Dyspnea from slight exertion.
  • Hacking cough from irritation and tickling low down in the throat.
  • Cough, with pain in region of umbilicus and temples, brown tongue, weak knees.
  • Dull, aching or sharp, cutting pains in both lungs from front to back or vice versa.
  • Sharp cutting pain from left axilla tonipple and down side deep in lung
▲ ABDOMEN
  • Dyspepsia of a flatulent character, resulting from tea, after excess in eating, errors in diet.
  • Belching of large quantities of offensive gas, sour, bitter gas.
  • Heartburn.
  • Burning in the stomach.
  • Burning, aching pains in stomach during pregnancy.
  • Heartburn in pregnant women.
  • Violent, colicky pains, causing desire to bend double, which makes him worse, must walk erect.
  • Painful cramps in stomach.
  • Hiccoughs.
  • Neuralgia of stomach.
  • Faint, uneasy feeling at stomach.
  • Sinking at the pit of the stomach.
  • Sensation as if a stone in stomach.
  • Sharp cramping pain in the pit of the stomach, then belching, hiccough and passing flatus, better standing erect.
  • Gastrody nia.
  • Nausea.
  • Vomiting, heartburn and gastralgia during menses.
  • Vomiting and purging.
  • Teeth - Pains in front teeth.
  • Sharp aching pain in an upper right molar.
  • Toothache, as if the bare nerve was touched.
  • Soreness of gums.
  • Gums on inner side of front upper teeth swollen.
  • Temperature - Chills with bitter mouth.
  • Chills with aching bones, backache.
  • Chills pains in lungs, sore throat, etc.
  • Chills commences over left scapula, spreading over back.
  • Chills running down back.
  • Chill on rising.
  • Chills, couldn't get warm.
  • Colic, pains radiate from abdomen to back, chest, arms.
  • Colic, worse bendingforwards and while lying.
  • Colic, better bending backwards, walking about.
  • Twisting and sharp, cutting pains in bowels.
  • Excessive flatulent colic, after excess in eating, errors in diet, or in tea drinkers.
  • Flatulent distension after meals in persons of weak digestion.
  • R umbling with emission of much flatus.
  • Side pains.
  • Pains suddenly shift to different parts, appear in remote localities, as fingers and toes.
  • Pains in a small spot.
  • Griping, cutting in hypogastric region with intermittent cutting in stomach and small intest ines.
  • Bowels sore and tender on pressure.
  • Abdomen tympanitic and very sensitive to pressure.
  • Pressure causes rumbling.
  • Disgust for food, with flat, clammy, bitter orsweet taste.
  • Flatulence after meals.
  • Very sleepy after dinner.
  • Thirst during pain in bowels.
  • After eating, nausea and faintness.
  • Colic, after excess in eating, errors in diet, or in tea drinkers
▲ GENITALS ETC
  • Relaxation and coldness of organs.
  • Pains shoot into testicles from region of kidneys.
  • Strong smelling sweat on scrotum and pubes.
  • Pain and spasm of spermatic cord.
  • Erections lasting all night.
  • Diminished sexual desire.
  • Emission of semen during sleep.
  • Seminal emission without erection, then weakness, especially in the knees.
  • Constant excitement of genitals.
  • Violent dysmenorrhea, pains radiate from the uterus.
  • Dysmenorrhea, spasmodic uterine colic, pains suddenly fly to distant parts.
  • False labor pains.
  • After -pains.
  • Cramps in fingers and toes alternating with uterine pains.
  • Pregnancy with severe pain with cramps in fingers and toes, alternating with false labor pains
▲ EXTREMITIES, LIMBS
  • Aching and stiffness in joints.
  • Cold limbs during colic.
  • Sciatic pain (right) shoot down the thighs with burning or numbness worse motion, sitting up, better standing on toes, lying still.
  • Limbs feel weak, especially knees, after seminal emission.
  • Hamstring seems too short (Cimx.).
  • Cramps in flexors of fingers and toes.
  • Numbness of left hand.
  • Pain in left shoulder.
  • Grinding in elbows.
  • Panaritium, early stage, pain, pricking, sharp, agonizing.
  • Paronychia.
  • Felons in beginning, when pricking is first felt.
  • Liver - Sharp pains from liver, shooting upward to right nipple.
  • Gallbladder colic, pain extending to the chest, back and arms.
  • Gallbladder colic worse bendingforward, better bending backwards
▲ BACK AND NECK
  • Lameness in back, in morning.
  • Lame ness worse stooping.
  • Dull pain in back of neck, stiff.
  • Severe backache.
  • Sharp pains in the back.
  • Spinal cord feels bruised all the way up and down.
  • Spinal hyperesthesia.
  • Itching over right scapula.
  • Drawing pains in sacrum, sacroiliac joint.
  • Breasts - Pain in region of nipples.
  • Causations - Ill effects of excessive eating, tea drinking, fasting.
  • Masturbation.
  • Errors in diet
▲ SKIN
  • Itching and burning of various parts.
  • Little pimples with black heads.
  • Panaritium, early when pains are sharp and agonizing or when pricking is felt.
  • Brittle nails
▲ SLEEP
  • Sleeplessness from too intent think ing.
  • Restless after 2 a.
  • m„ must move, yet it hurts, he is so sore.
  • First sleep late, wakes early.
  • Many symptoms are worse after sleep, bitter mouth, pains in bowels, hard beating of heart.
  • Aroused suddenly with slow, but hard beating of heart.
  • Vivid dreams.
  • Dreams of women.
  • Dreams all night.
  • Dreams with seminal emissions
▲ GENERALITIES
  • As if top of head was lifted off.
  • As if temples were in a vice.
  • As if head tied with a band (also neck).
  • As if sticks, etc.
  • in eyes, as if hot air streamed out of them.
  • As if tongue burnt.
  • As if a stone were in stomach.
  • In a small spot in abdomen sensation as if drawn forcibly upward and backward to spine

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📚 Literature Citation & References:
This clinical profile is compiled from: Andrew Chevallier, FNIMH — Herbal Remedies (Eyewitness Companions), and Dr. David Keifer, MD — Herbal Remedies Reference Guide. Synced with traditional botanical use and pharmacological outlines.
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