Strychnos Nux-Vomica - 0.5 kg Seeds
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Strychnos nux-vomica, the poison nut or kuchla (Strychnos nux-vomica), is a medium-sized deciduous tree famous for its highly toxic seeds, which contain the alkaloids strychnine and brucine. Despite their poison, the seeds are an important raw material in Ayurvedic and homeopathic medicine after careful detoxification (shodhana), used for nervous and digestive disorders.
The tree bears small greenish-white flowers and round orange fruits like small oranges, each holding disc-shaped grey seeds. The hard, durable wood is used for tool handles and carts. It grows in the dry and moist deciduous forests of peninsular and eastern India, the Western and Eastern Ghats and the coastal plains.
- Family: Loganiaceae
- Native region: tropical India and Southeast Asia
- Mature height: 10–15 m
- Growth rate: slow to moderate
Sowing the seed: soak the hard, flat seeds in water for 24–48 hours, then sow them about 2 cm deep in nursery bags of well-drained soil. Germination is slow and uneven, generally 21–30 days or more. Handle the toxic seeds with care, raise seedlings in light shade, and transplant to the field once 30–45 cm tall.
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