# Yucca Filamentosa

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Herbal Remedy
- **Miasm:** Psoric Miasm
- **Temperament:** Neutral
- **Aggravation Time:** Neutral/Anytime

## Keynote Indications
Yuc. was proved by Rowell and four others in the 30c. Farrington gave these Yuc. 
indications: biliousness with pain going through upperpart of liver to back. Diar rhea which contains an excess 
of bile. Much flatus passed by rectum. Frequent passage of flatus and of watery, yellowish -brown stools. Dull 
ache in center of liver. Abdomen sensitive. 
As with many liver disorders, there is chilliness, cannot bear to be away from the fire. Face sallow. Bilious 
symptoms with headache. Frontal or temporal headache with frequent flushing of face. Bad taste in mouth. 
Tongue coated yellow and taking imprint of teeth. The tongue is usually a bluish white.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Griping pain is better bending forward. Worse by noise. Worse motion, pres sure.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Despondent and irritable.
- Irresolute.
- Disinclined to study.
- Mind wanders, uses wrong words.
- Unable to 
remember anything read.
- When others talking to him, hears but doesn't seem to understand.
- Despondent and irritable.
- Irresolute.
- Disinclined to study.
- Mind wanders, uses wrong words.
- Unable to 
remember anything read.
- When others talking to him, hears but doesn't seem to understand.

### Head
- Headaches frontal, heavy, pressing, throbbing.
- Headaches as if top of head would fly off.
- Temporal 
arteries throb.
- Sensation of cold air blowing on left side of scalp.
- Headaches frontal, heavy, pressing, throbbing.
- Headaches as if top of head would fly off.
- Temporal 
arteries throb.
- Sensation of cold air blowing on left side of scalp.

### Eyes
- Dark rings under eyes.
- Eyes feel hot and inflamed.
- Itching and smarting left eye, left inner canthus.
- Dull 
pain over left eye.

### Ears
- Pain behind right ear, 6:30 p.m.
- Very sensitive to least noise.

### Face
- Pale, flushed, burning, yellow.
- Momentary aching in zygoma, recurring several times.
- Pain in jaw joints.

### Mouth
- Bad odor from mouth.
- Taste as of rotteneggs(Arn.).
- Back of mouth dry.
- Yellow tongue yellow, coated, 
taking imprint of teeth (Merc., Podo., Rhus-t.).
- Nose - Nose red.
- In evening, right side of nose constantly running, left dry.
- Profuse, bloody, watery discharge.
- Coryza.
- Sensation as if something hung down from posterior sinuses, cannot get it up or down.

### Throat
- Tonsils dark red, not sore.
- Pharynx seems covered with granules is dark red.
- Stringy, greasy-looking 
mucus back of throat.
- Sensation as if something hanging down from posterior sinuses.

### Chest
- Constriction in whole chest and in heart.
- Pain in upper intercostal muscl es.
- Constriction in heart.
- Momentary aching in heart region.
- Visible throbbing in arteries of hand.
- Pulse full 
and heavy, a little irregular.
- Kidneys - Circumscribed edematous red swelling, raw sensation around meatus.
- I rritable bladder, frequent 
urination.
- Burning when urinating.
- Urine increased, high specific gravity.
- Hard, rattling cough.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Aching and sharp pains in stomach.
- Region of stomach sore and sensitive.
- Temperature - Coldness of scalp, left side, as if cold air blowing on it.
- Coldness, cannot bear to be away from 
fire.
- Restless and feverish.
- Hot, feverish.
- Face sweats, evening.
- Deep pain in right side over liver, going through back.
- Abdomen bloated after dinner and feels 
sore.
- Rumbling.
- Colic.
- Crampy pains in abdomen after breakfast.
- Throbbing, painless, right side about twelfth 
rib.
- Much flatus emitted, odorless.
- Appetite increased, food relished, lost.

### Urinary & Genital
- Burning and swelling of the prepuce with redness of meatus.
- Gonorrhea (Cann-s.).
- Erections, all night 
long but no emissions, cannot study, mind runs on sexual subjects.

### Extremities
- Crampy pains in knees.
- Sore, crampy pains in muscle of back of left leg, just above ankle, as if 
sprained.

### Neck & Back
- Constriction of neck muscles, seems to draw head backward.
- Tight feeling around neck, evening, had 
to take off collar.
- Severe pain in left scapula, at 9 p.m.
- Backache.

### Skin
- Erythematous redness.

### Sleep
- Very sleepy in the evening.
- Restless night.
- Lewd dreams.

### Generalities
- As of something hanging down from back of sinuses.
- As if cold air blow ing on left side of scalp.