# Dioscorea Villosa (HMT)

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Remedy
- **Alternative Names:** Wild Yam
- **Miasm:** Psoric Miasm
- **Temperament:** Neutral
- **Aggravation Time:** Neutral/Anytime

## Keynote Indications
Dioscorea is prepared from the thic k voluminous root of the wild yam
plant that commonly grows in Afri ca. Dioscorea is an important,
commonly used medicine.  It best  works on the gall bladder,
especially on biliary colic associated with stones in the gall
bladder, if other symptoms of Dioscorea are present.

A peculiar sign is that the colicky pain may be over the gall bladder or
on any part of the abdomen.  It becomes worse on pressure, while
yawning relieves the pain by decreasi ng pressure on the affected area.
The dysentery is associated with severe gripe .  The patient of
Dioscorea feels better on walking about because it relieves the
pressure inside the abdomen.  The pa in radiates towards the back and
the shoulders like waves.  In Dioscorea, the pain is always of
radiating nature.  The spastic pain of the gall bladder (colic) can be
referred over the chest and to the sh oulders or even on the arms and
the hands.  The pain of renal colic usually refers towards the liver.
Similarly, the severe pain of the piles also radiates towards the liver.
The colicky pain of the stomach radi ates towards the heart. Dioscorea
is useful in all such symptoms and ailments.  Until the proper
treatment for the gall bladder be comes known, I always include
Dioscorea as an essential part of my formulary.

In Cactus too, the radiation of th e undulating type of pain from the
affected area to other organs is a essential symptom.  But, the
diagnosis of Cactus is based on different symptoms altogether, for
example, waves of pain produced by spasm in the membranes of the
brain or external organs radiating down to the big toe.

Dioscorea is a panacea for the ill effects of the excessive drinking of
tea.  A Dioscorea patient passes foul  smelling gas.  In the morning,
the taste in the mouth is bitter along  with the formation of white thick
crust on the tongue. Dioscorea is al so useful in the treatment of
neurogenic type of pain in the abdomen .  Its patient remembers and
recalls the names of the objects incorrectly.  There is mild pain over
both the temples, which gets better on light pressure.

In Dioscorea, bleeding piles also occur.  The piles are in the form of
large bunches of red grapes.  There may be diarrhoea, which is worse
in the morning.  There is a fe eling of burning at the time of
defaecation.  The Dioscorea patient feels his chest is tight and tense.
He cannot expand his chest to its full extent so his breathing is
shallow.  The fingernails are brittle and break easily.  The symptoms
of Dioscorea become worse in the evening, on lying on the stomach or
on bending forward.  On standing upri ght or on walking slowly, and
with application of light pressu re, the symptoms get better.
Chamomilla and Camphor are its antidotes.

Potency: 30

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