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 More options Sep 21 2002, 8:35 pm
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From: Towse <s...@towse.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 17:34:53 -0700
Local: Sat, Sep 21 2002 8:34 pm
Subject: Want to knock someone off (or just give them indigestion)?
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So I was yak shaving -- checking up on the tachycardial effects
of nutmeg being as billo hasn't popped in with information on
dosage limits for those ingesting nutmeg for its psychoactive
effects -- when I should be writing about tegestology or some
such thing.

Found
<www.pharmacy.utah.edu/pharmprac/therapeutics/PHPRC5312/toxicology_mod...>

This _very _cool PDF file is titled "Poisonous Plants 'It’s All
Natural'" by Brad Dahl, Pharm.D., R.Ph., CSPI.

The paper starts with stats: "Frequency of Plant Exposures by
Plant Type Reported to TESS 1998"

From there the paper tells you the mechanism and effects of a
number of poisonous plants.

Want to give your villain hepatic and adrenal failure in addition
to endothelial damage and diffuse and profound capillary
hemorrhage? Feed him/her a bit of Ricinus communis (the castor
bean), Abrus precatorius (the rosary pea), &c.

Decided, instead, to dish out a bit of bradycardia with AV block,
hypotension, lethargy, dizziness, and gastrointestinal upset?
Digitalis purpurea (foxglove) or Nerium oleander (oleander)
should do the trick.

Um. Maybe I should've stayed in the culinary thread.

Sal
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