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C. The natives of India use the crude nut in doses of about two and a half grains taken after meals, in the treatment of "Sunbheri" (macular leprosy). To be of service, the drug must be long continued and the dose gradually increased. Baker, 173, '25, 1: 139.
D. Alopecia and alopecia areata; (H.G.P.).
A. Formication and pruritus, Le Pelletier (178, '51), 42, 2: 249.
A. Formication and increase of sensibility, 6, 78.
Formication and pruritus, and a sensation as if the skin was pricked with needles, or there may bo diaphoresis and a miliary eruption, 1, 896.
C. Pemphigus, 68, 451. Alopecia areata.
The statement of Baker (supra), taken in connection with the statements made concerning Hoang-Nan (q.v.), raise hopes that nux mica and its alkaloids may yet play an important part in the therapeutics of leprosy.
The officinal preparations of Nux Vomica are: Tinctura Nucis Vomicoe; Extractum Nucis Vomica}; Strychnia; Strychnioe Sulphas.
 
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