Dioscorea Dregeana

[sunyata]

Does anyone have any experience with this herb? It looks kind of promising from what I've read about it.


From one supplier:
Wild Yam(Dioscorea Dregeana)is used to sedate violent, psychotic patients and is also used as an analgesic. In earlier times it was used as general anaesthetic to enable fractures of the limbs to be to be manipulated and stabilised by traditional bonesetters.<?:namespace prefix = o ns = "urnchemas-microsoft-comfficeffice" />The tuber is generally taken orally, traditionally about 2 to 5 grams would be used resulting in sleep within 20-30 minutes.

[Alfa]

I have been reading into that one, a while ago. It's a patato, which gives a mild analgesic effect. Do not expect to much from it, unless you make an extract.

[sunyata]

Ok, thanks Alfa, do you know what the active substance(s) is?