Description Source
Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica - TF AllenAdditional facts
Datura ferox, Linn. Natural order: Ranunculacea. Chinese Datura, probably the most poisonous species). Preparation: Trituration of the seeds.
Common symptoms
After a quarter of an hour she was completely out of her mind, was dizzy, sleepy;at last fell into a sleep, in which the eyes remained more or less open, and if disturbed she sprang up raving, and uttered unintelligible words; if one sang she began to dance in the Japanese fashion. Pulse was slow and full. Mouth very dry. вuchner’s Toxicologie, 1827, states that if the lips are held for a short time to a glass rubbed with a leaf, one is made to rave. Gmelin, Reise, etc., state that beer poisoned with the seeds of this plant causes ravings.
Analogs by action
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