ACONITE

ăkˈənīt, monkshood, or wolfsbane, any of several species of the genus Aconitum of the family Ranunculaceae (buttercup family), hardy perennial plants of the north temperate zone, growing wild or cultivated for ornamental or medicinal purposes. They contain violent poisons that were recognized from early times and were mentioned by Shakespeare (2 King Henry IV, iv:4); more recently they have been used medicinally in a liniment, tincture, and drug, and in India on spears and arrows for hunting. The drug aconite, the active principle of which is the alkaloid aconitine, is used as a sedative, e.g., for neuralgia and rheumatism, and is obtained from A. napellus. Aconites are erect or trailing, with deeply cut leaves and, in late summer and fall, hooded showy flowers of blue, yellow, purple, or white. The name wolfsbane derives from an old superstition that the plant repelled werewolves. Winter aconite is a name for plants of the genus Eranthis, wild or garden perennials of the same family. Aconites are classified in the division Magnoliophyta, class Magnoliopsida, order Ranunculales, family Ranunculaceae.

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...grasses, and is especially potent in the aconite surugu . The possession of ramet...shavings were also used to preserve the aconite poison which is put on arrow-points...in them, in which state it was taboo. Aconite, though feminine, was kamui and taboo...
...tripods of Apollo in Clarus. You must, to be sure, learn of the ACONITE, bitter as gall, deadly in the mouth, which the banks of...they name it Woman-killer and Crayfish . And the deadly Aconite flourishes amid the Aconaean mountains. For one so poisoned...
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...consequences of deadlier hurts than that of Aconite. 24 It is a "strait and narrow way"--to...Also called monkshood and wolfsbane, aconite is a poisonous drug derived from the tuberous...Edward receives a fatal dose of tincture of aconite (which Phelps later abbreviates as "Acon...
...piety, humility, and wisdom of Solomon. Yet also of Medea, whom the herb-doctor also cites: Medea, who serves up wolfs-bane, or aconite, distilled from the foam spewed by the hellhound Cerberus. Hebrew king and Greek witch--that is Melvilles figurative lineage...
...arrangement finally throwing attention away from the heady descriptions to the words themselves. Before primrose and before aconite, after snowdrop, at bluebells, during jonquil, inextinguishably for fritillaria, I stumble in and in. (25...
...tackt med blommor (Bla Stormhatt, Aconitum)" (113) "the ground below the footings is covered with flowers (blue monkshood or aconite)" (727). A chrysanthemum has usurped the blue monkshoods hierarchical position, though Strindberg provides no chromatic signifier...


 

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...blown up by an explosive device in a pot of caviare. Rank, having carried out his first murders by poisoning a pot of tea with aconite, is by now more squeamish. "Gascoynes card-case and his town address had been discovered, and his father had been wired for...
...and slime from a toad (only the latter possessing some genuinely venomous properties). Of vegetable poisons there was opium, aconite, hemlock, broom, the black morel and mandrake root. Cantharides, or powdered Spanish Fly (a kind of beetle), powdered bluebottles...


 

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Homeopathic Basics. Aconite Made form the bluish-violet monkshood plant, aconite is indicated for the initial stages of anxiety; chicken pox; croup; earache; fevers; panic attacks; measles; palpitations; shock; sore throats and teething. Arnica...
...Christopher Brownrigg, 17, brewed a concoction including monkshood and teabags while his mother was at work. Monkshood, one of the aconite family, is toxic and three hours later he was dead. Yesterday a coroner recorded a verdict of death by misadventure at an...
...in Jamaica two years ago. Aconitine is contained in the roots of aconite, a blue or yellow flower with green leaves related to the buttercup...Experts say they havent seen aconitine in Britain for 40 years." DEADLY Aconite toxin in Potter film
...determination is unfaltering and they create carpets of colourful foliage that will keep coming back for decades. Take the Winter Aconite, Eranthis hyemalis. This pretty flower is a member of the Ranunculus (buttercup) family and, like its relatives, produces a...
...one or two of the largest stems to the ground and trimming the rest of the bush for shape. PLANT corms of the yellow winter aconite for flowering from February ( in drifts for the best effect. If they are dry when bought, soak the corms for 48 hours in lukewarm...
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ACONITE ak nit, monkshood, or wolfsbane, any of several...and in India on spears and arrows for hunting. The drug aconite, the active principle of which is the alkaloid aconitine...neuralgia and rheumatism, and is obtained from A. napellus. Aconites are erect or trailing, with deeply cut leaves and, in...
MONKSHOOD see aconite . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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...g., poison hemlock, deadly amanita). Many poisonous plants are of great value medicinally, e.g., digitalis, belladonna, and aconite. Numerous plants have long been known and gathered (some from prehistoric times) for specific medicinal uses in controlled...
...frog. The family includes numerous familiar wildflowers and many cultivated ornamentals. Well-known representatives are the aconite , anemone , baneberry , bugbane , clematis (one of the few vine genera), columbine , globeflower , hellebore...
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