Physostigma venenosum. Kader Kochi.

Synonyms

Calabar bean, Ordeal bean.

Constituents

Perennial climbing plant. Height 14 meters. It is seen in western cost of Africa. Beans contains physostigmine (Anti atropine), calabarine (Atropine like), eseridine, and phytosterin.

Therapeutics

This is medicine for severe neuralgia (Plantago major).

It has para sympathomimetic and para sympatholytic action.

It is a medicine for absent mindedness, and dementia.

It is remedy for glaucoma. 

It is medicine for cramps, muscle spasm, and muscular rheumatism (Para sympatholytic).

It is remedy for myasthenia, progressive muscular atrophy, and flaccid paralysis (Para sympathomimetic).

It is remedy for autism spectrum diseases (Stramonium, Pulsatilla).

It is an antidote to Nux vomica poisoning.

Beans had been given to test guilty of the thief in western cost of Africa. He will vomit it if he was innocent. Otherwise he will die. 

Bean had been used also for duelling.

Dose 

1 to 4 drops.

Dilution.