Strychnine Tree

Other Names : Strychnos nux-vomica, Strychnos, Poison Nut, Quaker Bottoms, Vomit Weed, Brechnusssamen, Kuchla, Kupilu, Noix Vomique, Nuez Vomica, Nux Vom, Poison Nut, Quaker Buttons, Shudha Kupilu, Strychni Semen, Strychnos Seed, Vishamushti, Vomiquier, Azraqi, Azaraqi

Health Benefits and Uses of Strychnine Tree

In Unani Medicine, Hudar is a medicine containing Strychnos nux-vomica. The seeds are first immersed in water for five days and then in milk for two days followed by their boiling in milk.

• In smaller doses it trnsforms cold impaired temperament into hot and good, and renders to the body. It is used in nervous and phlegmatic disorders like Falij (palsy), Laqwa (facial paralysis), Wajaul Mafasil (rheumatim), Wajaul Qatan (lumbago) etc.
• It is also used in the case of loss of appetite, constipation due to intestinal weakness and to check senile polyuria and infantile bladderweakness.
• Being expectorant, it is used in cough, asthma and pthysis. It is resolvent and its liniment (when applied after rubbing with watr on skin) is used in inflammations especially that of plague. Moreover, after ashing kuchla in Kunjad (Sesamum indicum Linn.) oil and filtering, the oil is rubbed on rheumatic inflammations.
• It is useful in gonorrhoea and other ailments due to impure blood. A paste of nux-vomica seed is valued as a face paste efficacious in acne and improving complexion. Paste is also useful in weeping itch and ring worm.

References

Seema Akbar, Shamshad A Khan, Akbar Masood & M Iqbal (2010). "Use of Strychnos nux-vomica (azraqi) seeds in Unani system of medicine: role of detoxification". African Journal of Traditional, Complementary and Alternative Medicines. 7 (4): 286–290. PMC 3005396. PMID 21731158.