Strychnos nux vomica - Vomit nut
"CONSTITUENT: Strychnine, brucine united with igasuric acid and loganin.
PREPARATIONS: Extractum Nucis Vomicae, Extract of Nux Vomica. Dose: from one-eighth to one grain. Tinctura Nucis Vomicae. Dose: from two to fifteen minims. Extractum Nucis Vomicae Fluidum, Fluid Extract of Nux Vomica. Dose: from one to five minims. Specific Medicine Nux Vomica. Dose: from one-tenth to two minims."
Therapy: This condition is sometimes induced by reflex influence, apparent in the persistent vomiting of pregnancy, the vomiting or regurgitation of food present in hysteria, and in the vomiting of phthisis pulmonalis, especially occurring in these latter cases after coughing.
Dr. Perry advises nux vomica, ten drops in four ounces of port wine, giving a teaspoonful every three or four hours when sea-sickness threatens, or when it may be anticipated. He believes it is a very reliable remedy. A small quantity of the mixture may be taken on the tongue every few minutes, sometimes with better results.
The same atonic condition is present with infantile diarrhea of hot weather, in cholera infantum, in cholera morbus and in cholera. In the vomiting of these conditions small doses of nux vomica frequently repeated are specific.
In atonic congestion of the spleen or of the liver, existing from malarial influences, with whatever disease manifested, this agent is directly indicated.
It stimulates the digestion and increases the appetite. It is one of the very best, if indeed it is not the best, of our restorative tonics. In all debilitated conditions, in convalescence from exhausting disease and protracted fevers, wherever there has been depression or exhaustion of nerve force, it is the remedy.
In chronic stomach disorder, with deficient digestive power and general malnutrition, this agent arouses the nervous system and increases the functional activity of the digestive and assimilative apparatus more satisfactorily than any other known agent.
Cases of vomiting in pregnancy have been controlled by frequently repeated doses of the tincture of nux vomica, and the weakness of the stomach in dipsomaniacs with vomiting and anorexia are controlled with the agent, which is often rendered more efficient by combination with capsicum.
(Finley Ellingwood: The American Materia Medica, Therapeutics and Pharmacognosy, 1915)"