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Aconitum
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Aconitum
a genus of the Ranunculaceae family from northern temperate areas. Includes A. chasmanthum, A. columbianum, A. ferox, A. vaccarum, A. vulpari.
Aconitum napellus
one of the most poisonous of British plants. All parts of the plant contain aconitine, one of the plant's toxic alkaloids. The dried tuberous root was used pharmaceutically as a counterirritant and local anesthetic. The plant is not usually eaten and field poisoning with it is uncommon. Signs of poisoning include vomiting, colic, slow heart rate, paralysis, pupillary dilatation and death due to asphyxia. Called also monkshood, wolf's bane, aconite.
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The final product, Canova[R], contains 19 dH Thuya occidentalis (Cupresaceae) made from the bark; 18 dH Bryonia alba (Curcubitaceae) made from fresh roots; 11 dH Aconitum napellus (Ranunculaceae) made from fresh preparations of the whole plant, including the roots, at the beginning of flowering; 19 dH Arsenicum album (arsenic trioxide); and 18 dH Lachesis muta (Viperidae) venom (Pereira et al.
Action of the medicine Canova[R] on peritoneal resident macrophages ... by Cardoso de Oliveira, Vanessa Tagawa; Cardozo, Daniela Maira; de Oliveira Dalalio, Márcia Machado; Ma / Acta Scientiarum Health Sciences (UEM)
Her chief complaints had been anxiety and insomnia, for which Aconitum napellus had helped her the most.
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Aconitum Napellus - If he seems fearful and his skin is hot and dry.
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