- Key Actions: Anti-inflammatory, Estrogenic, Relieves spasms.
- Parts Used: Root
Wild yam
Dioscorea villosa, Wild yam
🧬 Remedy Miasm: Psoric Miasm
The Psoric miasm is considered the mother of all chronic diseases. It primarily manifests as functional nervous weakness, allergies, skin itching, eruptions, and hypersensitivity.
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MODALITIES ETC
- Cautions: Can cause irritation within the
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Often used with: Black cohosh (Cimicifuga racemosa)
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- See also pp.42–51.
- Part used Root key actions Anti-inflammatory • Estrogenic • Relieves spasms cramps and pains Wild yam can bring relief wherever cramping pain or over-tensed muscles are the main symptoms.
- In such a situation, wild yam’s combination of antispasmodic and anti-inflammatory activity can help soothe problems as diverse as intestinal cramps, gall bladder pain, menstrual and ovarian pain, and muscle spasm resulting from chronic inflammation.
- In many cases, the best results will be obtained by combining wild yam with other anti-inflammatory or muscle-relaxant remedies, particularly cramp bark (Viburnum opulus).
- In both osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis, wild yam combines effectively with anti- inflammatories such as devil’s claw (Harpagophytum procumbens) and willow bark (Salix alba).
- Menopausal symptoms Wild yam is best known, and most commonly taken, for the relief of menopausal symptoms.
- Given the herb’s undoubted hormonal activity , there are good reasons for thinking that it can be taken to improve symptoms such as hot flashes, night sweats, and poor sleep, although it is probable that the steroid compounds in wild yam are not converted to the active hormones in the human body that would thus make it effective for menopausal symptoms; perhaps there is another mechanism at work.
- Most experts recommend that for best results, the extract should be taken for several weeks to see if it alleviates Medicinal uSeS Wild yam Dioscorea villosa Increasingly taken as a remedy to relieve menopausal symptoms, wild yam has traditionally been used to ease cramps and muscle pain, especially menstrual pain and colic, throughout the body .
- A further key use has been in the treatment of inflammatory arthritis, including rheumatoid arthritis.
- A–Z of h ERbAl REME dIEs chopped root and tuber tuber contains dioscin tincture dried root fresh root 116 dIosco REA vIllos A symptoms.
- Wild yam combines well with black cohosh (Cimifuga racemosa) for menopausal and rheumatic problems.
- natural progesterone cream Wild yam natural progesterone cream, applied to the skin rather than taken internally , has received much publicity as a treatment for menopausal problems.
- A number of clinical studies have failed to find any benefit in relieving symptoms in menopausal women, although there are undoubtedly women who have experienced relief of symptoms with the cream.
- It is perhaps misleading to describe the product as “natural,” as several laboratory processes are required in order to convert the steroidal compounds present in wild yam into progesterone.
- No plant has yet been found that contains progesterone.
- That being said, it is the case that hormones processed from natural sources are more readily used by the body than those that are produced synthetically .
- other uses Wild yam has been used within Native American traditions to help prevent miscarriage in the later stages of pregnancy and to relieve pain during childbirth.
- In keeping with its traditional name of colic root, wild yam makes a useful treatment for irritable bowel and diverticulitis, especially if combined with slippery elm (Ulmus fulva).
- native to the southern US, Mexico, and Central America, wild yam was known as colic root and rheumatism root, indicating its use by early settlers.
- hormones from wild yam Wild (and other) yams contain high levels of steroidal compounds, including dioscin, that have an oestrogenic activity.
- It was the original plant source of diosgenin produced by Japanese scientists in 1936.
- Diosgenin was synthesized in the laboratory into steroid hormones, and eventually led to the creation of the birth control pill.
- steroid molecule 117
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Literature Citation & References:
This clinical profile is compiled from: Robin Murphy, MD — Lotus Materia Medica, 3rd Edition. Compiled in accordance with classical homeopathic provings and clinical practice.
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