He is quoted as saying: “On account of the instability of phosphorus in elixir of phosphorus, nux vomica and damiana we have quite recently replaced the phosphorus by glycerophosphates.
Elixir Glycerophosphates, Nux Vomicaand Damiana (Sharp and Dohme) are ineligible for New and Nonofficial Remedies.
Nux Vomica 5 to 10 minims to the dose, unless contraindicated, will secure excellent results.
Should the bowels be slow and uncertain, the small doses of Aloin, Cascarin and Podophyllin stimulate to free peristaltic action, while the Nux Vomica sets the nervous system right.
The manufacturers’ statement of composition is: “Each fluidounce represents Nux Vomica 8 grains, Damiana 64 grains, combined with Glycerophosphates of Calcium and Sodium.
Strychnine can be obtained more readily and in larger proportions from St. Ignatius bean, but it is generally obtained from nux vomica seeds on account of the cheapness of the latter.
The proportion of both the alkaloids is greater than in the seeds of nux vomica which contain only .
As among other Telugu castes, when a girl reaches puberty, twigs of Strychnos Nux-vomica are placed in the special hut erected for the occasion.
If available, twigs of Strychnos Nux-vomica are placed in a corner.
Members of the Kommi, Jammi, and Mushti gotras avoid using the kommi tree, Prosopis spicigera, and Strychnos Nux-vomica respectively.
It is very advisable to give her the following mixture for a few days after the attack: tincture of nux vomicatwo ounces, and alcohol six ounces.
The following mixture may be given: potassium chlorate two ounces, salol one-half ounce, and powdered nux vomica one ounce.
Two drachms of tincture of nux vomicaand one ounce of alcohol may be given in a drench three times daily.
Subject the nux vomica for two hours to steam in any convenient vessel; chop or slice it; dry it in a water bath or hot-air chamber, and immediately grind it in a coffee mill.
It may be improved, in special cases, by combining with it extract of nux vomica or belladonna.
Benefit may be derived from the mineral acids added to simple bitters, or in cases of extreme nervous prostration small doses of nux vomica are a valuable addition to dilute hydrochloric acid.
In administering nux vomica care should be taken as to limitation of time and dose.
The simultaneous administration of tincture of nux vomica will prove useful if the appetite is poor and the digestion feeble.
Nux vomicaor arsenic may be employed for a similar purpose.
Clark speaks favorably of the extract of nux vomicaand astringent remedies.
In some cases three or four drops of tincture of nux vomica or some of the simple bitters may be taken at the same time with benefit.
If the paralysis be partial, it is better to give nux vomica or Ignatia amara by the mouth, in hopes of getting some beneficial astringent influence on the walls of the oesophagus.
Quinia, iron, and nux vomica are indicated above all other remedies for the anaemia resulting from an attack of purpura.
Are such remedies as iron, quinine, nux vomica and cod-liver oil ever useful in psoriasis?
After some progress is made toward recovery 1-1/2 drams of pulverized nux vomica may be given twice a day, added to the iodid of potassium drench.
If any paralysis remains 1-1/2 drams of pulverized nux vomica should be given twice a day with the quinin.
Nux vomica or strychnia (1 to 2 grain doses) may be given.
Angostura or cusparia bark has fallen into comparative disuse, in consequence of nux vomica or false angostura bark having formerly, in several instances, been mistaken for it, and administered with fatal results.
Tincture of nux vomica is also said to have been used with good results, as also has Fowler's solution of arsenic, with very decided advantage, by Dr Mackenzie.
Pharmaceutical and other Preparations of Nux Vomica and Strychnine, with Suggestions for their Valuation.
In four samples of nux vomicaexamined by Dragendorff, the total alkaloids ranged from 2.
The fatal dose of nux vomica must be ruled by its alkaloidal content, which may be so low as 1 per cent.
It is of very great importance to ascertain whether both strychnine and brucine are present or not--the presence of both pointing to nux vomica or one of its preparations.
The nux vomica powder itself may be valued as follows:--15 to 20 grms.
Nux vomica is found in commerce both in the entire state and as a powder.
Igasurine= is an alkaloid as yet but little studied; it appears that it can be obtained from the boiling-hot watery extract of nux vomica seeds, through precipitating the strychnine and brucine by lime, and evaporation of the filtrate.
Take: Tincture of nux vomica 2 drams Fluid extract of ergot 4 drams Fluid extract of golden seal 1 ounce Compound elixir of calisaya sufficient to make 8 ounces Directions: A tablespoonful three times a day, between meals.
Nux Vomica and strychnine have no reliable chemical antidote; emetics should first be given, or the stomach washed out with a siphon tube or stomach pump.
Its chief action appears to be upon the spinal nerves, and there is reason to suppose it a poison of the same kind as nux vomica without the concentration of that agent.
Strychnia in solution (it is needless to say with what caution) must be administered like the atropin, subcutaneously, or else nux vomica tincture in the form of the ordinary enema in about the same dose as it would be given by the mouth.
I have beheld the physiological effect of nux vomica repeatedly, but cannot recollect many instances in which I could date amendment from its appearance.
The constitutional measures will consist of tonics into which nux vomica enters.
When the sickness is conquered, the following should be administered:-- Powdered nux vomica A quarter of a grain to a grain.
Powdered nux vomica A quarter of a grain to one grain.
If there is much gas in the stomach, take some baking soda in a glass of warm water; one drop doses of tincture of nux vomica every half hour for three hours often relieves.
If a bitter tonic is needed the following is good: Bicarbonate of Soda 1 dram Tincture of Nux Vomica l to 2 drams Compound tincture of Gentian, enough for 3 ounces Mix and take one teaspoonful to a dessert spoonful before meals.
Tincture of nux vomica in doses of two to three drops after meals is a good stomach and bowel tonic.
Take a good full enema of warm soap suds and water, and one drop of tincture of nux vomica every hour for six hours during the attack.
One drop of the tincture of nux vomica in a teaspoonful of water every five or ten minutes will quickly relieve.
If the appetite is poor, bitter tonics such as gentian, quassia, cinchona, or nux vomica are needed.
The nerves should be kept quiet by rest and, if needed, general tonics like iron, arsenic, and nux vomica prescribed and given.
So also one drop dose of nux vomica every half hour.
Nux vomica is good only when the headache comes from constipation and stomach trouble and too high living.
With vomiting of bile and mucus use Nux Vomica 3X trit.
Also, five drops of diluted hydrochloric acid in water, taken after meals, through a tube, and one or two drops of nux vomica before meals is beneficial.
Sixty drops of the tincture of nux vomica is put in two gallons of the drinking water twice a week, during the molting season.
The tincture of nux vomica is about the easiest of all the tonics to use, as enough for a year can be kept in a small bottle and put into the water without trouble at any time it is needed.
A booth is erected in a grove, or beneath a margosa or Strychnos Nux-vomica tree, within which a decorated pot (karagam) is placed on a platform.
Sometimes a man will dream of some evil spirit turning Pattavan, and then he is taken to a Strychnos Nux-vomica tree, and his hair nailed to the trunk and cut.
Give each a dram of powdered nux vomIca and one-half dram of dried sulphate of iron once daily in a little feed.
It is possible that nux vomica may accumulate in the system, as serious symptoms have arisen from the long-continued use of small doses.
The seeds of the nux vomica not only yield strychnia but brucia, an alkaloid which has the same properties, and causes the same symptoms as strychnia, though it is much less powerful.
Podophyllin: a cholagogue, used instead of mercury; useful along with nux vomica and mineral acids.
Acid, Nitric: with nux vomica to assist mercury, when due to hepatic derangement; combined with pepsin when this is the case with children.
Dinner Pill: aloes and myrrh; aloes and iron; with nux vomica and belladonna or hyoscyamus, taken just before dinner.
Physostigma: 10 minims of tincture along with belladonna and nux vomica in atony of the walls.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vomica" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
