• Wild Yam is a remedy for many kinds of pain, especially colic.

• Effective in severe, painful affections of abdominal and pelvic viscera.

• Dioscorea Villosa ranks with the polychrests of the Materia Medica.

• Dioscorea Villosa is suitable for persons of feeble digestive powers.

• Indicated for tea-drinkers, with much flatulence.

• Dioscorea Villosa is useful in gallstone colic.

• General sensation of being twisted, contorted, and doubled up is observed.

• Great prostration, exhaustion, and weakness are present.

• The patient is sensitive to cold air and draughts.

• Complaints are often associated with hepatic or biliary disturbances.

• Pain often radiates in different directions.

• The patient experiences restlessness and cannot remain in one position for long.

• Marked periodicity of complaints is noticed.

• Atonic conditions are present.

• Complaints arise from suppressed emotions.

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• The patient is irritable and easily angered, especially when in pain.

• The patient experiences anxiety and apprehension, particularly about health.

• The patient is restless and fidgety.

• The patient is depressed and melancholy, with a desire to be alone.

• The patient experiences difficulty concentrating; mental confusion.

• The patient has an aversion to mental work.

• The patient experiences fear of death, especially during attacks of pain.

• The patient feels forsaken, as if no one cares.

• Alternating moods, from cheerful to irritable, are observed.

• The patient lacks confidence.

• The patient experiences despondency, with weeping.

• The patient is easily offended.

• The patient experiences ill-humor in the morning.

• The patient experiences excitability.

• Mental dullness is present.

• Vertigo with nausea is present.

• Sensation as if the head were too large is experienced.

• , worse from using them, is felt.

• Dim vision is reported.

• Weakness of vision is present.

• , especially with colic, is felt.

• Tinnitus is experienced.

• Nasal catarrh with watery discharge is present.

• Sore throat with burning pain is felt.

• Difficulty swallowing is present.

• Sensation of a lump in the throat is experienced.

• Spasmodic cough, worse at night, is experienced.

• Shortness of breath is present.

• Asthma-like symptoms are present.

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• , especially with anxiety, are experienced.

• Pain in the heart region is felt.

• Angina pectoris is present.

• , often radiating to the arms, is felt.

• Tightness and oppression in the chest are experienced.

• Difficult breathing from flatulence is present.

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• Craving for stimulants is present.

• Loss of appetite is experienced.

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• , often described as griping, twisting, or colicky, is felt.

• The pain forces the patient to bend backward.

• Distension of the abdomen with excessive flatulence is present.

• Belching provides no relief.

• Nausea and vomiting are experienced.

• are present.

• Sour eructations are experienced.

• Pain in the stomach after eating is felt.

• Weak digestion is present.

• Flatulence, with rumbling and gurgling in the bowels, is present.

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• , often with painful straining, is experienced.

• Constipation with hard, dry stools is present.

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• with burning and stinging pain are present.

• Stools are dark and offensive.

• Painful urination is experienced.

• Frequent urging to urinate is present.

• Burning in urethra during urination is felt.

• Male: Neuralgic pain in the testicles is experienced.

• Impotence is present.

• Premature ejaculation is experienced.

• Female: Dysmenorrhea with severe cramping pain is experienced.

• Ovarian pain is felt.

• Leucorrhea is present.

• Bearing-down sensation in pelvis is experienced.

• Prolapsus uteri is present.

• Neuralgic pain in the limbs, especially the arms and legs, is experienced.

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• are present.

• Sciatica is present.

• Pain in the joints is felt.

• Restless legs are present.

• Stiffness in the back is felt.

• Weakness in the small of the back is experienced.

• Pain in the neck and shoulders is felt.

• Itching skin is experienced.

• Dry skin is present.

• Eruptions that are worse from scratching are present.

• Restless sleep is experienced.

• Sleeplessness from pain is present.

• Dreams of business are experienced.

• Frightful dreams are experienced.

• Motion, cold air, night, lying down, after eating, pressure, excitement, anger, touch, damp weather, mental exertion.

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• Nux vomica.

• Not definitively established, but Camphor may be helpful in some cases; Opium.