SPHERE OF ACTION
Through the spinal nerves, it especially acts upon the intestinal canal, producing hyperaesthesia of the sentient nerves of the bowels; also on the liver and upon many portions of the sentient nervous system.
GRAND CHARACTERISTICS.
The. grand sphere for the use of Dioscorea is among the neuroses of the bowels and stomach. Where the coeliac and umbilical plexuses of nerve are in a great state of hyperaesthesia, the pain and spasm are unbearable.
Steady twisting pains in the bowels, worse when lying down.- HELMUTH.
Spasmodic colic with much flatulence.-HALE.
Intense spasmodic colic, with nausea and bilious vomiting.
Pulsating pain in the upper part of the sternum.-B.
Great burning distress in the stomach, with pricking pains in it.-B.
Colic that comes on suddenly, and leaves suddenly.
Great faintness at the stomach.-B.
Constant heavy pain in the pit of the stomach; worse after eating, and which is relieved by copious eructations of air.-B.
Distressing pyrosis.-HELMUTH.
Morning diarrhoea.
Spasmodic pains in the abdomen, with unusually severe tenesmus.-B.
Dysentery with violent lancinating pains in the bowels.-Dr.
ROGERS.
Profuse, deep-yellow, thin stool followed by a very weak, faint feeling, without relieving the pain in the bowels.-B.
Just before and during a stool, severe pain in the sacral region and bowels, of a writhing, drawing character; the pains radiate upwards and downwards, until the whole body and extremities become involved in spasm.-BURT.
Pain in the bowels is the great key-note for this remedy.
Spasmodic stricture of the urethra.
Disposition to paronychia (felons).-J.B.BELL.
In colic, diarrhoea and dysentery, is the great field for this remedy, and its merits are not appreciated by the profession.
(1836-1897)
Characteristic materia medica Published 1873
Physiological materia medica, containing all that is known of the physiological action of our remedies; together with their characteristic indications and pharmacology. Published 1881