Hippozaeninum

Hoang-nan is a plant indigenous to Tonquin, where it has a great reputation as

a remedy for leprosy, hydrophobia, snake-bites, and diseases of the skin. In an article by Sir

• ▸Sherston Baker (Brit.
• ▸Med.
• ▸Journ.
• ▸, March 30, 1889-H.
• ▸W.
• ▸, xxiv.
• ▸371), it is stated that the

• ▸medicine called Hoang-nan is a powder, and contains 1.
• ▸5 parts Alum, 1.
• ▸5 parts Realgar, 2.
• ▸5

Hoang-nan. But it is added that the last is the most important, and can be employed alone. The

plant belong to the Strychnos family, and contains both Strychnia and Brucea, the latter in

preponderating quantity. The red dust of the bark contains the most active properties. The native

method of preparing the medicine is by moistening the mixture of the three powders with a little

vinegar, and forming the paste into pills of about a centimetre in diameter. When taken by a

healthy person these pills produce: Fatigue, general indisposition, vertigo, tingling of the hands

and feet, involuntary movements of jaw. When a person is bitten by a poisonous animal a dose of

three or four grammes is administered in vinegar, and if none of these symptoms appear it is

understood that the medicine is antagonised, and the dose is increased until some of the

symptoms manifest themselves, when the poison is considered to be destroyed. The use of

alcohol is forbidden whilst a patient is taking this medicine. Vinegar appears to modify its

virulence. In animals poisoned with it tetanic convulsions always begin in the hind legs and

spread all over the body. Brain, liver, kidneys, and lungs were found congested post mortem. In

• ▸1883 a proving of the drug was made by seven persons (N.
• ▸A.
• ▸J.
• ▸H.
• ▸, March, 1886), and a few

symptoms were produced. According to Hansen, prurigo, pustular eczema in parts well supplied

with sebaceous glands (face, neck, genitals), boils, carbuncles, constitutional syphilis, cancer of

the glands, and general malnutrition were also met by the remedy, the dose of which is 5 to 30

drops of the tincture three times a day.

It improves nutrition generally, esp. in constitutional syphilis —Tetanic

convulsions beginning in legs and spreading over body.—Glandular affections.

Eyes full of tears or slime.—Pupils dilated, with collapse ——Papules on choroid coat of

eye.

Tinkling sounds in ears.—Hoarse and deaf before fatal termination —Inflammation of

parotid gland.

• ▸Red, swollen.
• ▸Catarrh, ozaena, ulceration.
• ▸Discharge acrid, corroding, bloody, offensive.
• ▸Tubercles on alae nasi.
• ▸Papules and ulceration in frontal sinus and pharynx.

Swelling and redness of nose and adjacent parts, with severe pain.—Catarrh: nose

inflamed with thick and tinged defluxion; tonsils swollen, fauces gorged.—Obstinate

catarrh.—Discharge: often one-sided, albuminous, tough, viscous, discoloured, grey, greenish,

even bloody and offensive; acrid, corroding.—Chronic ozzna.—Nose and mouth

ulcerated.—Cartilages of nose become exposed and necrosed, septum, vomer, and palate bone

disorganised.—Caries of nasal bones.—Checks the liability to catarrhal affection.

All glands swollen; painful; form abscesses.

Maxillary gland swollen, like a distinct ball of sausage, firmly attached to the maxilla,

uneven, rugged, tuberculated, mostly painless, burning only at times.—Submaxillary and

sublingual glands swollen and painful at times, abscesses are formed which open externally.

Act of speaking difficult.—Tongue dry, thickly covered with a black, sooty

deposit.—Ulcers appear in mouth.—Buccal passages filled with tenacious lymph and

mucus.—Odour of breath putrid —Scrofulous swelling of |. parotid gland in a child.

Ulcerations upon velum of palate —Swollen tonsils closing posterior

channels.—Upon mucous membrane of pharynx ecchymoses, redness, swelling, eruptions, and

foul ulcers.

• ▸10, 11.
• ▸Appetite and Stomach.
• ▸—Thirst excessive, esp.
• ▸with diarrhcea.
• ▸—Gastro-intestinal catarrh;

loss of appetite, indigestion, constipation; in later stage, diarrhoea.

Liver greatly enlarged, often showing signs of fatty degeneration.—Hepatitis

with gangrenous and ulcerative inflammation of gall-ducts.—Spleen enlarged, filled with blood;

softened and liquefied, of a greyish or dark colour; wedge-shaped abscess in spleen.—Inguinal

glands swollen.

Colliquative diarrhoea with a general cachexia and exhaustion precede the fatal

termination.—Constipation.

• ▸Hoarseness.
• ▸Bronchial asthma.
• ▸Noisy breathing; short, irregular.
• ▸Cough, with dyspepsia.
• ▸Excessive secretion.
• ▸Suffocation imminent.
• ▸Bronchitis in the aged, where suffocation from excessive secretion is imminent.
• ▸Tuberculosis.

Papules and ulcerations in frontal sinuses, pharynx, larynx, and

trachea.—Hoarseness from the altered condition of larynx.—Bronchitis: in the worst forms; esp.

in elderly persons; where suffocation from excessive secretion is imminent.—Noisy breathing;

loud snoring respiration before fatal termination; breath fetid Cough and obstructed respiration,

resulting from cicatricial contraction of mucous membrane of nose and larynx; had lasted eleven

years; patient presented picture of decided cachexia.—Respiration at first partially

• ▸impeded.
• ▸—Cough commenced at Christmas and lasted till June.
• ▸—Whooping-cough.
• ▸—Patients

cough severely and expectorate profusely, sputa usually bearing a strong resemblance to the

discharge from the nostrils —Tubercles, size of millet seed to a pea, of a grey, yellowish, or

reddish colour.—Given in phthisis, it diminishes expectoration, abates constantly recurring

aggravations of inflammation, and checks liability to catarrhal affections.—Lung disease of cattle

(F.).

With sore finger, swelling of arm, phlegmonous and erysipelatous with

pustules and ulcers.

• ▸Hip-disease.
• ▸—Psoas and lumbar abscesses (F.
• ▸).
• ▸—Old bad legs

(ulcers).—Anasarca of lower limbs (F.).

• ▸Lymphatic swellings.
• ▸Articular non-fluctuating swellings.
• ▸Nodules in arm.
• ▸Malignant erysipelas.
• ▸Pustules and abscesses.
• ▸Ulcers.
• ▸Rupia.
• ▸Eczema.

Frequent chilliness.—Chills and fever in cases of abscesses and ulcers —Skin

becomes cool with collapse—Fever when a series of abscesses follow in rapid

• ▸succession.
• ▸—Putrid fever.
• ▸—Plague.
• ▸—May be tried in scarlatina, where odour of breath is putrid,

buccal passages filled with tenacious lymph and mucus, tonsils greatly swollen.

Hoang-Nan.

• ▸Strychnos gaultheriana, Pierre.
• ▸(Tonquin).
• ▸N.
• ▸O.
• ▸Loganiacez.
• ▸Tincture of dried bark.

• ▸Albuminuria.
• ▸Boils.
• ▸Carbuncles.
• ▸Eczema, pustular.
• ▸Hydrophobia.
• ▸Leprosy.
• ▸Paralysis.

Prurigo. Syphilis. Ulcers.

Compare: Muco-toxin (Cahis' preparation with the micrococcus catarrhalis. Friedlander's Bacillus of Pneumonia and the micrococcus tetragenius-for acute and chronic mucous catarrhs in children and old people); Aur; Kali bich; Psor; Bacill.

Thirtieth potency.