Strychnos
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 Strychnos toxifera
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Strychnos is a genus of flowering plants, belonging to family Loganiaceae (sometimes Strychnaceae). The genus includes about 190 species of trees and lianas, distributed around the world's tropics.
- The Strychnine tree, Strychnos nux-vomica, native to tropical Asia, is the source of the poison strychnine and the homeopathic remedies, nux vomica (from the seed) and Brucea antidysenterica (from the bark).
- Strychnos ignatia ("St. Ignatius bean"), is a closely related Asian shrub/tree, and the source of the homeopathic remedies, Ignatia amara (from the seed) and "Upas tieuté" (Strychnos tieute) (from the bark).
- The species Strychnos toxifera is one of the 2 plant sources of the poison curare.
- Another notable species is Strychnos spinosa (Lam.), commonly known as the Natal orange.
- The ripe seeds of Strychnos potatorum,[1][2], known as Therran or Nirmal,[3] can be ground and used as a coagulant to purify water; or they may be rubbed against the inside walls of the earthenware water containers.
[edit] External links
- Home water treatment by direct filtration with natural coagulant, by Babu R, Chaudhuri M.
