Yucca filamentosa
Plant · Asparagaceae
Bilious, despondent, and irritable individuals with liver dysfunction; chilly patients who cannot bear to be away from the fire, with sallow face, furred tongue taking imprint of teeth, and headache aggravated by noise and motion.
Key symptoms
- Bilious symptoms with frontal or temporal headache and frequent flushing of face
- Deep pain in right side over liver, going through to back
- Tongue coated yellow or bluish-white, taking imprint of teeth
- Stools diarrhoeic, yellowish-brown, containing excess of bile
- Much odourless flatus passed by rectum
- Sensation as if something hanging down from posterior nares
- Head aches as if top would fly off; throbbing temporal arteries
- Despondent, irritable, irresolute; mind wanders, uses wrong words
- Face sallow; yellow; cold and chilly, cannot bear to be away from fire
- Granular pharynx; stringy, greasy mucus at back of throat
Worse (aggravation)
- Noise
- Motion
- Pressure
- Heat (headache)
Better (amelioration)
- Sitting still
- Bending forward (griping pain)
- Lying down (crampy abdominal pain)
Bear-grass
So-called bilious symptoms, with headache. Despondent and irritable.
Head
Aches as if top of head would fly off. Arteries of forehead throb. Nose red.
Face
Yellow; tongue yellow, coated, taking imprint of teeth (Merc; Pod; Rhus).
Mouth
Taste as of rotten eggs (Arnica).
Throat
Sensation as if something hung down from posterior nares; cannot get it up or down.
Abdomen
Deep pain in right side over liver, going through back. Stool yellowish brown, with bile.
Male
Burning and swelling of the prepuce, with redness of meatus. Gonorrhœa (Cann; Tussil).
Skin
Erythematous redness.
Dose
Tincture, to third potency.
Yucca filamentosa. Bear Grass. N. O. Melanthaceæ (Liliaceæ). Tincture of root and leaves when not in flower. Tincture of flowers.
Clinical
Biliousness. Coryza. Diarrhœa. Flatulence, odourless. Headache; temporal. Post-nasal catarrh. Throat, granular.
Characteristics
Yucca was proved by Rowell and four others in the 30th. Farrington gives these indications. Biliousness with pain going through upper part of liver to back. Bad taste in mouth. Stools diarrhœic, and contain an excess of bile. Much flatus passed by rectum. Frontal or temporal headache with frequent flushing of face. Face sallow. Tongue coated yellow and taking imprint of teeth. Dull ache in centre of liver. Abdomen sensitive. Frequent passage of flatus and of watery, yellowish-brown stools. The tongue of Yuc. is usually a bluish white. As with many liver disorders, there is chilliness: cannot bear to be away from the fire. Among the Sensations are: As of something hanging down from back of nares. As if cold air blowing on left side of scalp. The symptoms are: < B noise; motion; pressure. Griping pain is > bending forward.
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