Aconite? Aconitum? Aconitines?
Let's check it out:
Family: Ranunculcaceae
Scientific name: Aconitum spp
Common name: monkshood
Found in: forests, nartural areas, moist wood, along creek banks, landscape, flower gardens
It can be used as herbs!
SO.... can we eat it now?
Aconite is a plant
of the genus Aconitum. Aconitine is a
toxic derived from the Aconitum genus plant. Aconitine is high in toxicity and aconitine poisoning is usually caused by consuming Chinese herbal medicine or by eating aconite the plant itself.
The usual causative agents of aconite poisoning are the Aconitines which comprise of aconitine, hypaconitine, jesaconitine and mesaconitine.) It is estimated the Lethal Dose, 50% (LD50) of aconitine for humans is 1-2mg/kg.
This toxic acts on sodium channels in excitable membrane. The symptoms of aconitine poisoning are nausea, vomiting, numbness in limbs and arrhythmia. This poisoning often result in death due to cardiac arrest.
So how do we detect it in samples?
So how do we detect it in samples?
Stay tuned!
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