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Yucca Filamentosa, Linn  
(Homoeopathic Remedy)

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Yucca filamentosa. Bear Grass.

Nat. Ord. Melanthaceae (Liliaceae). 

Part used ; Tincture of root and leaves when not in flower. Tincture of flowers.

Clinical Indications. Biliousness. Coryza. Diarrhoea, 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  loose 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.  


Abridged and edited from :
A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica.
By John Henry Clarke, M.D.
 

 

 

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