aconitine

Ranunculaceae, perennial herb. The plant height is 60-120cm, the leaves are alternate, leathery, oval, three-lobed, two lobes are 2 lobes, the central lobes are 3 lobes, and the edges are notched. 5 calyx panicles, petals 2, fruit oblong, flowering period 6-7 months, fruit 7-8 months. Liao, Henan, Shandong, Gansu, Shaanxi, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Hui, Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, are all distributed.

The name Aconitum generally refers to Aconitum sinensis, as well as Aconitum grass, which generally refers to the wild species of Aconitum and a variety of other plants of the same genus, such as Aconitum aconitum (blue Uranus flower), Taibai Aconitum (Taurus aconitus), etc., which is the name of traditional Chinese medicine.

Aconitum contains a variety of alkaloids, such as hypoaconitine, neoaconitine, aconitine, Chuanwulin A, Chuanwuli B (Kamicharin), taramide, etc.

Toxic manifestations

1. It can suddenly increase the heart rate and cause heart rate disorders, and the autopsy proves that the heart contraction of the person who died of aconitine poisoning is like a mulberry.

2. It can dilate blood vessels and rapidly reduce blood pressure.

3. Affect the activity of the adrenal glands, especially the content of ascorbic acid can be significantly reduced.

4. Inhibit the central nervous system and respiratory center.

Manifestations of intoxication

Vomiting, diarrhoea, coma, numbness in the limbs, difficulty breathing, decreased pulse and blood pressure, heart rate disturbances (this seems to be nonsense)

First aid is generally treated with high-dose atropine (tropineine can relieve cardiac toxicity, similar to procaine, antihistamine, quining), lidocaine, dried ginger and licorice, honeysuckle, mung bean, rhino horn and other traditional Chinese medicines. Astragalus, Yuanzhi, milk, etc. also have a certain effect.

In ancient times, the standard military poison, smeared weapons, equipped with gunpowder, Guan Gong scraped bones to cure poison is the poison that cures aconite.

Aconitum short-stemmed

Aconitum short-stemmed is also known as Artemisia on the snow.

Aconite is the side root of Aconitum (specifically referring to the cultivation of Sichuan Aconite), also called Zigen, Chinese medicine pays attention to the excavation between the summer solstice and the summer heat, as if it is because of what "its nature is sweet and sweet, and it is hot", and the unprocessed product at this time is called "mud aconite". After soaking and then drying with a mixture of salt brine and salt, it is called "salt aconite", boiling it in brine and then soaking it in thinner brine, and then soaking it with brown sugar and vegetable oil to adjust the color and then steaming and drying it is called "black aconite" (black aconite), and it is directly steamed and dried with sulfur without brown sugar and vegetable oil to color it, and it is called "white attached piece" (bright attached piece, male piece). Because of its "bitter and sweet nature, great heat", traditional Chinese medicine is mostly used for various "cold diseases, wind diseases" such as typhoid fever, stroke, rheumatism, etc., and now it is also made into injections for the treatment of heart failure.

The toxicity of aconite is the same as that of aconite, but it is weaker, but it is a commonly used medicine, so poisoning is more common, but there are few deaths. General aconite poisoning has many factors in the patient's own factors, such as allergy system or something, as long as the rescue is timely, there will be no danger, and the specific measures are the same as dealing with aconite poisoning.

In addition, ginseng decoction is the last first aid method in traditional Chinese medicine, which is used to adjust life. But that thing can't be used urgently, it needs to be fried for a long time, so the Chinese medicine hospital can only fry that pot all day long.

See blood seal the throat

Also known as "poison arrow wood" and "scissor tree", it is an endangered plant protected by the state and one of the most poisonous plant species in the world.

The sap is milky white and highly toxic. Once the liquid enters the bloodstream through the wound, it is life-threatening. The ancients used to paint it on arrowheads to shoot wild beasts or enemies. Spikes.

Native to Southeast Asia. In Hainan, China, it can be seen in the Xishuangbanna Botanical Garden.

Photographed at Danzhou Hainan Tropical Botanical Garden. It is estimated that theoretically this tree is enough to poison the entire people of Hainan

Love flowers

Remember Yang Guozhong's poison? The love flower is said to be the white mandala. Mandala is an annual poisonous herb that blooms in summer and autumn and has a funnel-shaped corolla. It is also known as eggplant flower, goldenrod flower, and mountain eggplant flower.

Song Ren Zhou Qufei's "Lingwai Dai Answer": "Guangxi Mantuoluo flowers, all over the wilderness, large leaves and hundreds of flowers, as solid as eggplant, and full of mountain thorns, is a medicinal herb. The thief picks up the dry and ends it for food and drink, and makes a man drunk, and he goes to the house. "The leaves, flowers, fruits, and stems of Mandala can be used as medicine, containing alkaloids such as scopolamine, hyoscyamine and a little atropine, among which the content of flowers is the highest, about 0.34%. Dou Cai's "Bian Que Heart Book" in the Southern Song Dynasty recorded the "sleeping Shengsan" side: "People can hardly bear the pain of moxibustion, and they don't know the pain when they take it, and they don't hurt people. ”

The whole plant of Mandala flower is toxic, the fruit and seed toxicity is the largest, the toxicity of the dry leaves is smaller than that of fresh leaves, its leaves, flowers, seeds, fruits, and stems can be used as medicine, containing scopolamine, hyoscyamine and a little atropine and other alkaloids, of which the content of flowers is the highest, about 0.34%.

Finally, it is the most commonly used antidote to the two flavors of Chinese medicine.

◎Licorice, known as the king of medicine in traditional Chinese medicine, can solve all kinds of drug poisoning, but unfortunately now in order to dig it, a large grassland has been destroyed, and the cabbage, licorice, the treasure of Ningxia, but in order to dig them, the environment of Ningxia has been destroyed.

◎Honeysuckle, which is found in most parts of the country, is a good drink.