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From the Medical Department of the Lahey Clinic, Boston, Massachusetts. Menard — Assistant in Medicine, Lahey Clinic. Hurxthal — Physician, Lahey Clinic. For records and addresses of authors see "This ...

Capable of taking over homes and regrowing from a one-centimetre fragment, an invasion of Japanese knotweed is any gardener's worst nightmare. But experts now warn that the clumping Japanese weed is ...

Excerpted from an article by E. Wade Davis in the November 1983 issue of the Journal of Ethnopharmacology. A fuller account of Davis’s search for the Haitian zombie poison was documented in The ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. There is a scary weed in your yard that should be destroyed right away. It usually starts with a single sprout, seemingly harmless and easy to ...

On average, the Poisons Information Helpline in the Western Cape receives 290 calls concerning plant poisoning every year, of which most cases involve preschool children aged 6 and younger. While ...

Nature pictures of medicinal plants (III) Datura stramonium, Linn. n.o. Solanaceae. common names: apple of Peru; devil's apple ... French: stramoine; pomme épineuse ... German: stechapfel; dornapfel.

The cubiu (Solanum sessiliflorum) fruit, originating in the Amazon basin, is commonly used in that region for food, medicine, and cosmetics. In an experimental culture of cubiu, in order to evaluate ...

Stories about Datura are heard since childhood. One can be hypnotised if you take or inhale Datura. Scopolamine is also present in Jimson Weed (Datura stramonium), a plant found in most of the Latin ...

Plants are often used for good, but not always. I believe it is safe to say that a large majority of our interactions with plants on a daily basis are beneficial, or, at the very least, unremarkable.