copyright: 2009
Intro:
- A man in 1844 had a walled garden of poisonous plants
- do most gardeners approach their gardens kindly?
- will brew medicinal tea from bark & berries
- 68847 people are poisoned by plants
- shrubs leading to paralysis
- nature has power in plants
- need be attentive towards plant
- they can nourish
- even heal
- tobacco is the most wicked weed
- algae escape Jacques Cousteau’s aquarium
- smell of the corpse flowr
- plant devouring mice?
- will list the “evil” plants
- gives poison centers number (800) -222-1222
- don’t experiment with unfamiliar plants
Deadly Plants
- Aconitum had killed 2 priest in 1856 (it’s mistaken as an eatable herb
- spikes of blue flowers
- called monkshood
- all part of plant is toxic
- wear gloves
- the poison is a alkaloid called aconitine
- paralyzes the nerves, lowers blood pressure, and usually stops the heart
- could cause skin iratations
- or wolf Shane
- big in Harry Potter
- Arrow Poisons
- From South Africa
- causes paralysis, lungs stop working, then the heart
- no signs of agony
- CURARE (wide variety of arrow poisons)
- Strychnine Vine (South America, again causes paralysis
- Kombre (Africa vine, cardiac glycoside that works on heart) Toothbrush issues
- Upas Tree; mulberry family, native to China, back of leaves produce toxic sap.
- poison arrow plants, puncturing vine seeds
- Ayahuasca Vine – Illegal
- using the bark
- contains DMT a Schedule I controlled substance
- in antidepressants + inhibitor
- this UDV can be used for religious practices
- betel nut: Intoxation
- raises to 30 tall
- addictive stimulant
- 4 hundred million peope use it
- goes back to 5000-7000 BC
- it’s like coca
- uses piper betele
- has bitter pepper taste
- enjoyed in India
- similar to nicotine
- Castor Bean
- produces hemorrhages in organs of body
- makes ricin
- can be 10 feet tall
- sometimes its killed by winter frost
- a spoonful is a good laxative
- sooth sore muscles and inflamation
- Ordeal Poisons West African bean
- vomit – innocent
- if he died – guilty
- evacuate through bowels – guilty
- Calabar Bean
- poison of choice
- can be fifty feet tall
- works as a nerve gas
- talk of London in 1860
- Tanghin Poison – /nut
- suicide tree
- smoke from burning wood could be toxic
- Sassy Bark (casca)
- in Congo
- redish brown bark
- Strychnine Tree
- causes convulsions
- asphyxiations
- Upas Tree
- in Indoneesia
- prisoner myth
- Calabar Bean
- Coca
- Sigmund Freud worked with Coco in 1895
- found to be used as early as 3000BC
- it was a devilish plant said the catholics
- was used to pay off work in gold and silver mines
- coka-cola had trace amounts of cocaine (from leaves)
- coco leaves are a mild stimulant
- the leaves are nutricious
- it’s an Andean crop (dates back thousands of years)
- Coyotille causes paralysis in berry form
- thrives between Texas and New Mexico
- can reach the size of 20 feet (like a small tree)
- Houseplants