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Remedy Name/s: |
Common Name/s: |
Latin, Zoological, Botanical and mineralogical name/s: |
| Dioscorea, Dios. |
Wild Yam, Colic Root |
Dioscorea Villosa |
General description and domicile:
Wild Yam is a perennial creeper found in America and Canada. It will grow up
almost anything and in the wild it is often found strangling small shrubs and
high in the foliage of taller trees.
Part used and extraction:
The fresh is used, dug up after the flowering season.
Remedy preparation:
Chopped and steeped in alcohol to obtain mother tincture
History:
The plant, as the common name suggests, has been used for years as a herbal
remedy for colic and also rheumatism.
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Remedy profile:
This is a minor remedy used almost exclusively for colic and abdominal pain.
Emotional indications are those associated with colic in babies, i.e.:
restlessness, anxiety and irritability.
Key Symptoms:
Abdominal pain
Used for treatment of:
Colic
Abdominal pain
General Symptoms Worse for:
Factors/Conditions that make the symptoms worse
Eating
At night
Lying down
General Symptoms Better for:
Factors/Conditions that improve symptoms
Movement
Burping
Stretching out
See also our
Herbal page on Dioscorea.
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