Sib,?The following account of fatal poisoning' of Nux Vomica habituee may prove interesting to your readers :? Madiga Chennoogadoo, a sweeper by occupation, aged about 25, well built, was brought to the Badval Civil Dispensary, at 11 A.M. on the 12th of March last, with the following history :?Occasionally he had been in the habit of eating two seeds of Strychnos Nux Vomica at a time to get him...

The seeds of Strychnos nuxvomica Linn. (Loganiaceae) were processed as prescribed in the Ayurvedic classics. The seeds were soaked in Kanji (3 days; Sample A); boiled in cow milk (3 h; Sample B); soaked in cow urine (7 days), boiled in cow milk (3 h) and roasted in cow ghee (till swollen; Sample C) and a sample roasted in cow ghee (till swollen; Sample D). The processed nux vomica were compared...

Brucine. 2.3-Dimethoxystrychnidin-10-one was extracted from the seeds of Strychnos nux-vemica. L as described earlier (3,7). The crude alkaloid was crystallized from ethyl alcohol. melting at 178°C, The iso'lated cockroach heart technique described by Krijgsman et at. (2) was employed for the present studies. In all the experiments only adult insects were used. Sexual differences and age factor...

An ethnobotanical study was conducted in the Wechiau Community Hippopotamus Sanctuary area in Ghana, through interviews and quadrate studies, to investigate the range and abundance of species used in the treatment of malaria. Forty-one species belonging to 17 families were encountered during the study. Of the 17 families studied Leguminosae and Anacardiaceae predominated in terms of number of s...

Fractionation of an antitrypanosomal lipophilic leaf extract from Strychnos spinosa led to the isolation of eight triterpenoids and sterols in this plant part for the first time. Two of these were found to possess in vitro antitrypanosomal activity, namely, saringosterol (14) and 24-hydroperoxy-24-vinylcholesterol (15), with IC(50) values of 7.8 +/- 1.2 and 3.2 +/- 1.2 microM, respectively. The...

Xanthine oxidase inhibitory activity has been reported from different plants such as Cinnamomum cassia, Chrysanthemum indicum, Lycopus europaeus, Polygonum cuspidatum, Acacia confuse, Coccinia grandis, Datura metel, Strychnos nux-vomica, Vitex negundo, Coccinia grandis, Vitex negundo, Fraxinus angustifolia, Pistacia lentiscus, Hyptis obtusiflora, H. lantanaefolia, Artemisia vulgaris, Caesalpini...