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The hemlock is spotty

Болиголов пятнистыйHemlock spotty – the noxious herbaceous two-year plant applied in medicine. The family Umbrella treats the sort Hemlock.

Chemical composition

Poisonous properties of the Hemlock spotty define alkaloids coniine, conhydrine, methyl coniine, coniceine, pseudo-conhydrine. The highest content of alkaloids is noted in fruits and seeds of a plant. The hemlock spotty also contains fat oil which part glycerides of petrozelidinovy and petrozelinovy acids are.

Useful properties

Thanks to the medicinal properties the Hemlock spotty since the time of Hippocrates is considered a medicinal plant. With ancient time the plant was applied as anesthetic. Now drugs from a hemlock spotty it is practically not used in official medicine, because of frequent cases of poisoning and unreliability of medical action.

Indications to use

Attention! The plant is very poisonous.

In traditional medicine the plant is applied as soothing, anticonvulsant and a calmative at various painful states which are followed by a spasm of internals or spasms. It is used at treatment of a chorea, whooping cough, epilepsy and migraine.

Spirit tincture of the Hemlock spotty is used as anesthetic at oncological diseases, diseases of a digestive tract and urinogenital system.

Contraindications

The hemlock spotty cannot be applied with hypersensitivity to the active agents which are its part.

It is necessary to remember that all parts of a plant are very poisonous. Poisoning can come even at hit in a mouth of stalks (children can take it for an angelica and make of it a tubule). At contact of the Hemlock spotty with skin there can be contact skin damages as a corrosive burn.

At poisoning emergence of the following signs is possible: burning in a mouth, hypersalivation, dizziness, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea. In hard cases an asthma, expansion of pupils and an apnoea are noted.

House drugs

Because of high risk of poisoning it is not recommended to prepare from a plant extracts and infusions for intake.

 
 
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