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Dioscorea Villosa

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Head

Dull pain in forehead. Mouth and tongue dry, with bitter taste.

Gastric.-- Belching of wind, bitter; sour; tasteless. Painful distress in stomach, has to unfasten clothing; relieved by raising wind; burning in stomach.

Abdomen

Excessive pain in; cutting or dull grinding pain in region of liver.

Severe colic-like, cutting pains about the umbilicus; also griping or cramping pains.

Pains radiating upward and downward until the whole body, including fingers and toes, becomes involved.

Flatus abundant; rumbling and rolling of; passing large quantities of, downward.

Violent twisting colic, coming in paroxysms.

Colic comes on or is worse while lying down, or bending double, is relieved by rising and walking.

Stool

Diarrhoea, thin, yellow. Hard, dry, lumpy stool.

Generalities

Dioscorea differs from the Colocynth colic in being worse from bending double (Coloc. better) and better on rising and walking (Coloc. worse). Felons , disposition to, with tendency to colic; should be taken at the first symptom of pricking in the finger, or even later on.