DIOSCOREA VILLOSA


Respiratory symptoms of homeopathic remedy Dioscorea Villosa, described by Van Denburg in his book, Therapeutics of Respiratory system, cough & coryza, published in 1916….


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CORYZA.

Nose stopped; either dry or fluent.

Hot tears fill smarting eyes, in open air.

Smarting, burning and soreness, with dryness and itching in tonsils and throat, provoking cough.

Sharp, stitching pains, seemingly from tonsil to ear.

DISCHARGES–

Fluent or dry coryza: neither very marked.

Lachrymation in open air.

SENSATIONS–

Tonsil (left) smarts (tickles), provoking a strangling cough. itches violently. Constriction of throat, as if something were tied around the neck.

COUGH.

DRY COUGH–

Hacking, tickling, tingling, itching in larynx and bronchi, causing an irritating, hacking cough.

Dry cough, With headache in temples and pain in epigastrium, or Stitching pains through chest.

Brownish-yellow tongue, and weakness in fauces.

SPUTA–

Profuse, frothy, seemingly from posterior nares.

M.W. Van Denburg
M. W. (Marvin W.) VAN DENBURG, A.M., M.D.
Author of "A homoeopathic materia medica on a new and original plan ... A sample fascicle containing the arsenic group."
"Therapeutics of the respiratory system, cough and coryza, acute and chronic : repertory with index, materia medica with index"