Abies Spectabilis (D. Don) G. Don (Syn. A. Webbiana Lindl.) Family: Coniferae
L.D. Kapoor in Handbook of Ayurvedic Medicinal Plants, 2017
Medicinal properties and uses—Decoction of the bark is used in dysentery, in worms, and useful as a collyrium in ophthalmia. Fresh juice of the leaves with a few drops of honey is a good vermifuge; it acts as a cathartic. Crushed leaves are applied hot to rheumatic joints to relieve pain and as poultice they are applied hot and bandaged upon venereal buboes. The drug is used in liver troubles, also. Decoction of the root bark is given in diabetes and is said to reduce the quantity of sugar in urine within a short time. Leaf juice is said to have cured long-standing dysmenorrhea, and also removed sterility in fatty women by gradually reducing fat and producing natural menstrual flow. The juice increases the secretion of milk if taken during the period of lactation. In its action erythrine, the alkaloid, is antagonistic to strychnine and may be used as an antidote to strychnine poisoning3
Strychnine
David J. George in Poisons, 2017
Initial symptoms of strychnine poisoning may include heightened attention and anxiety, and muscle spasms. This may progress to painful generalized convulsions. Typically there is facial grimacing resembling a frozen mask-like grin (risus sardonicus) and a rigid arched back (opisthotonus) with only the back of the head and heels of feet touching a supporting flat surface. Poisoning victims remain fully conscious while experiencing painful convulsing episodes. Death results from asphyxia due to sustained contracture of respiratory muscles.
Strychnine, old still actual poison: description of poisoning cases reported to French Poison Control Centers over the past thirteen years
Published in Toxin Reviews, 2022
Camille Paradis, Denis Dondia, Audrey Nardon, Ingrid Blanc-Brisset, Arnaud Courtois, Jules-Antoine Vaucel, Magali Labadie
Regarding clinical description, the frequency of symptoms we reported was similar to those observed in the former cases series. Indeed, our results were close to François et al. (François et al.1996), who described a frequency of 29% of convulsions (21% in our study), 27% of myoclonus (25% in our study), 21% of cardiac arrest (20% in our study), and 19% of rhabdomyolysis (14% in our study). The comparison of those results confirmed that clinical signs of strychnine poisoning are identical to those reported previously in the literature and that some unusual clinical signs did not occur.
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