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Cocculus Indicus
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The commercial name for the dried fruits of Anamirta Cocculus (natural order Menispermaceae), a large climbing shrub, native to India. It contains a bitter poisonous principle, picrotoxin, used in small doses to control the night sweats of phthisis. It was formerly known as Levant nut and Levant shell, owing to the fact that it was brought to Europe by way of the Levant.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Cocculus Indicus'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/c/cocculus-indicus.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Cocculus Indicus'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/c/cocculus-indicus.html. 1910.
