Latin, Nux vomica officinarum, Solanum arboreum indicum maximum, Strychnos colubrina, S. ligustrina, S. Nox vomica;
English, Poison nut, Quaker buttons ;
French, Noix vomiques ;
German, Krahenaugen ;
Urdu, Kuchla.
An evergreen tree, with a short, crooked, thick trunk, with smooth
ash-colored bark, irregularly branched, the twigs highly polished
and deep-green. The leaves are opposite, short-petioled, oval,
three-to five-veined, shining and smooth on both sides, 1 ½ to 4
inches long, 1 to 3 inches broad. The small greenish-white flowers
appear in the cold season, in small, terminal corymbs. The berry is
round, 3 to 4 inches in diameter, bright-orange colored when ripe,
covered with a hard, smooth shell, filled with a soft, bitter,
gelatinous pulp, in which the seeds, 1 to 5 in number, are immersed ;
these are flat, irregularly orbicular, about 1 inch in diameter, ¼
inch thick slightly concavo-convex, with a broad, thickened margin,
giving a central-depressed appearance; they are light grayish or
greenish in color, glistening, horny, and have an extremely bitter
taste.
Found in :-
Coromandel, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, India, Orissa, Malabar and elsewhere in the East Indies.
Introduced into homoeopathic practice:-- |
By Dr. Hahnemann, Frag. de. Vir, Med. 143. in 1805. Said to have been introduced into medicine by the Arabians. It was described about 1540; ( Allen’s Encyc. Mat, Med. VII. 83.)
The seeds, coarsely powdered.
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(a)Tincture Q: = | Drug Strength 1/10 |
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Nux Vomica, in coarse powder | 100 gm
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Distilled water | 200 Cc.
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Strong alcohol | 824 Cc.
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To make one thousand cubic centimeters of tincture.
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(b) Dilutions: 2x and higher with dispensing alcohol.
(c) Triturations: 1x and higher.
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