Wild yam ( " Dioscorea villosa " ) extract creams are not effective since the natural progesterone present in the extract is not bioavailable.
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One day a hen and her ten chickens came across a wild yam, which got up after a while and ate one of the chickens.
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At least 17 tribesmen have died after eating poisonous wild yams due to a lack of food in Maguindanao, another drought-stricken southern province, officials said.
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Local village leaders and health workers have reported at least 42 deaths from wild yam poisoning but health officials have confirmed only 14 so far.
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According to the Orang Rimba, the Hantu Pendek travel in groups of five or six, subsisting off wild yams and hunting animals with small axes.
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Jennice Kersh, the restaurant's owner, said last week she plans to serve the world's journalists a warm salad of kangaroo fillet, with beetroot and wild yams.
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Yet another is homeopathic or herbal remedies like ginseng, don quoi, fo ti, black cohosh, wild yam, oil of evening primrose and food supplements like Rejuvex.
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Some herbs _ like echinacea, goldenseal, American ginseng and wild yam _ have become so popular that their continued supply from natural sources is in danger.
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Sales of other popular herbs used to treat symptoms of menopause, like black cohosh, flaxseed, red clover, dong quai and wild yam, are also on the rise.
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Analyzing and experimenting with hundreds of specimens, he finally found his horn of plenty in the gnarled black tubers of a wild yam in eastern coastal Mexico.
