SPHERE OF ACTION
This remedy especially affects the anterior portion of the spinal cord, producing paralysis, and doing so from the periphery towards the centre. Curare acts upon the extremities with more intensity than Strychnine, and Strychnine upon the cord with more intensity than Curare; such is the shade of difference in their action.’ Curare and Strychnine differ in their action only by shades.
Curare, like Strychnine, determines convulsions by augmenting the excitability of the spinal cord.-MESSRS. MARTIN, MAGROU and BUISSON.
Adapted to neurotic and paralytic diseases. Of late it has been highly recommended for tetanus. It is very useful for the debility of old people, and diseases that greatly exhaust the motor nervous system.