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New Aspects in the Treatment of Water Hemlock Poisoning

1984; Marcel Dekker; Volume: 22; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3109/15563658408992551

1097-9875

O Knutsen, P Paszkowski,

Plant-based Medicinal Research

AbstractAbstractA man inadvertently ate a whole root of the highly poisonous water hemlock (Cicuta virosa L.) plant. The chief symptoms were convulsions, unconsciousness, reddish tinted cyanosis, dilated pupils and marked metabolic acidosis. The patient survived due to treatment with haemodialysis, haemo-perfusion, forced diuresis and artificial ventilation. The cicutoxin molecule size was calculated and it was found to be dialysable.