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Dioscorea (Wild Yam)
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Dioscorea (Wild Yam) is retained as a structured identity record in the Root/Rhizome collection. Its medical, efficacy, dosage, safety, citation, and product claims are withheld until accountable human review is complete.
- Category
- Root/Rhizome
- Publication state
- legacy_published
- Review state
- unreviewed
- Record key
- dioscorea-wild-yam
- Source name
- Dioscorea (Wild Yam)
- Record type
- botanical
- Alternate names
- Dioscorea villosa, Chinese Yam, Colic Root, Rheumatism Root, Devil's Bones, Shan Yao, Wild Mexican Yam, Atlantic Yam
- Record updated
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