Dioscorea villosa

Common Name: Wild Yam root

Use: reputation in anti-inflammation rheumatic use; relaxant to gut and uterus.

Purposes:   (See also Disease: Signs & Symptoms)

biliousness
colicBilious.
lichen planus
lupus
nauseaEspecially of pregnancy.
pemphigusSystemically.
sarcoidosis

Used In:    (See Formulas)

Labour Reducing Tonic                                
Miscarrige Tonic #2DC76                            
Neuritis Tea #1DC177                                  
Parturient                                                      
Uteritis Tonic #1DC168                              

Properties:   

Anti-Inflammatory                
Nervine                                    
Stimulant                                

Contraindication(s):   

Constituents:   

Alkaloids. Including dioscorine, dihydrodioscorine.
Phytosterols. Including b-sitosterol, stimasterol, taraxerol.
Saponin, steroidals. Including dioscine, diosgenin sapogenin.
StarchMuch.
Tannins.

Materia Medica:    (See Materia Medica.)

Anti-inflammatoriesDIGESTIVE SYSTEM
Anti-inflammatoriesMUSCULO-SKELETAL SYSTEM
Anti-inflammatoriesIMMUNE SYSTEM
AntispasmodicsFEMALE REPRODUCTIVE
ProgestogenicsFEMALE REPRODUCTIVE

 

 

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