~Baneful Botanicals (Botanicals which may be DEADLY if ingested)-
*Old World-
Abrus precatorius ~ “Rosary Pea” or “Precatory Bean”
Acokanthera species ~ “Poison Arrow Plant”
Aconitum species ~ “Wolfsbane” or “ Monkshood”
Amanita phalloides ~ “Death-Cap” or “Destroying Angel Mushroom”
Antiaris toxicaria ~ “Upas Tree”
Atropa belladonna ~ “Belladonna”
Boophane disticha & Boophane haemanthoides ~ “Bushman’s Bulb”
Cerbera odollam ~ “Suicide Tree”
Claviceps purpurea ~ “Ergot” or “St. Anthony’s Fire”
Conium maculatum ~ “Poison Hemlock”
Daphne species ~ “Daphne”
Datura metel & Datura stramonium ~ “Dhatura” or “Devil’s Trumpet”
Dendrocnide moroides ~ “Stinging Tree”
Dichapetalum cymosum (syn. toxicarium) ~ “Ratbane”
Digitalis purpura ~ “Foxglove”
Erythrophleum guineense ~ “Doom Bark”
Euphorbia species ~ “Spurge”
Helleborus niger ~ “Hellebore”
Hyoscyamus niger ~ “Henbane”
Lupinus species ~ “Lupine”
Mandragora officinalis ~ “Mandrake”
Scopolia carniolica ~ “???” or “Scopolia”
Solanum nigrum ~ “Black Nightshade”
Strophanthus kombe ~ “Kombe”
Strychnos nux-vomica ~ “Strychnine Tree”
Taxus baccata ~ “Sacred Yew”
*New World-
Brugmansia species ~ “Brugmansia” or “Angel’s Trumpet” *
Brunfelsia charicaspi ~ “Charicaspi” or “Manaca” *
Chondrodendron tomentosum ~ “Curare”
Cicuta maculata ~ “Water Hemlock”
Datura inoxia & Datura wrightii ~ “Sacred Datura” or “Toloatzin”
Desfontainia spinosa ~ “Taique”
Galerina species ~ “Deadly Skullcap Mushroom”
Hippomane mancinella ~ “Manchineel Tree”
Hura crepitans ~ “Sandbox Tree”
Iochroma fuchsioides & Iochroma grandiflorum~ “Paguando”
Karwinskia humboldtiana ~ “Coyotillo”
Latua pubiflora ~ “Arbol De Los Brujos” or “Latue”
Lobelia tupa ~ “Devil’s Tobacco”
Methysticodendron amesianum ~ “Snake Intoxicant”
Nicotiana rustica ~ “Mapacho Tobacco”
Oplopanax horridus ~ “Devil’s Club”
Pernettya furens & Pernettya parvifolia ~”Hierba Loca”
Saphora secundiflora ~ “Mescal Bean”
Solandra brevicalyx & Solandra guerrerensis ~ “Kieli/Kieri”, “Tecomaxochitl” or “Hueipatl”*
Tachigali versicolor ~ “Suicide Tree”
Toxicodendron species ~ “Poison Ivy”
Zigadenus venenosus ~ “Death Camas”
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Emetics are used to induce vomiting, however emetics are NEVER to be used on a drowsy, unconscious or convulsing patient. Emetics should also not be used after ingestion of strychnine, corrosives, petroleum distillates, solvents, thinners, detergents and/or anti-emetic drugs.
