What plant can put you in a coma?

Oleander (Nerium oleander)
If eaten, oleander can cause vomiting, diarrhea, erratic pulse, seizures, coma, and death, and contact with the leaves and sap is known to be a skin irritant to some people.
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What plants can cause paralysis?

Gelsemium comes in three flowering varieties – two native to North America and one to China. All three can be deadly. The most toxic variety of gelsemium, Gelsemium elegans, only grows in Asia, and is also known as “heartbreak grass”.
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What poisons put you to sleep?

What strychnine is
  • Strychnine is a white, odorless, bitter crystalline powder that can be taken by mouth, inhaled (breathed in), or mixed in a solution and given intravenously (injected directly into a vein).
  • Strychnine is a strong poison; only a small amount is needed to produce severe effects in people.
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Can nightshade put you to sleep?

Sleeping nightshade is one of several plants with sleep-inducing properties mentioned in Gerard's Herball. When consumed it makes people waver between sleep and death.
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Which one is historically toxic herb?

Toxalbumins are highly toxic protein molecules that are produced by only a small number of plants. Ricin, a toxalbumin from the castor bean (Ricinus communis), is one of the most toxic substances known.
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What It's Like To Be In A Coma



What is the creepiest plant in the world?

Top Ten Scary Plants
  • 9) Utricularia – Bladderwort. ...
  • 8) Dering Woods – Screaming Wood. ...
  • 7) Armillaria Solidipes – Humongous Fungus. ...
  • 5) Hydnellum Peckii – Bleeding Tooth Fungus. ...
  • 4) Nicotiana Tabacum – Tobacco. ...
  • 3) Amorphophallus Titanum – Corpse Flower. ...
  • 2) Mammillaria Elongata Cristata – Brain Cactus. ...
  • 1) Algae Bloom – Red Tide.
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What is the strongest poison?

1. Botulinum toxin. Scientists differ about the relative toxicities of substances, but they seem to agree that botulinum toxin, produced by anaerobic bacteria, is the most toxic substance known. Its LD50 is tiny – at most 1 nanogram per kilogram can kill a human.
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Is there a plant that can knock you out?

California Poppy, Golden Poppy (Eschscholzia californica) California poppies (Eschscholzia californica) have been used for their sedative effects.
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Is belladonna illegal?

Belladonna is uncontrolled in the United States. This means all parts of the plant and its extracts are legal to cultivate, buy, possess, and distribute (sell, trade or give) without a license or prescription. If sold as a supplement, sales must conform to U.S. supplement laws.
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Does belladonna make you high?

Atropa belladonna and related plants, such as Datura stramonium (commonly known as jimson weed), have occasionally been used as recreational drugs because of the vivid hallucinations and delirium they produce.
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What poison looks like sugar?

Cyanide is the usual abbreviated name for potassium cyanide – a potassium salt of hydrocyanic acid. The chemical formula of potassium cyanide is KCN. It resembles granulated sugar and dissolves in water just as well as sugar does.
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Which poison can cause paralysis?

Tetrodotoxin interferes with the transmission of signals from nerves to muscles and causes an increasing paralysis of the muscles of the body. Tetrodotoxin poisoning can be fatal.
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Which medicine can cause permanent paralysis?

Common paralytics include atracurium, cisatracurium, mivacurium, rocuronium, succinylcholine, and vecuronium. How long is a paralytic used? Generally, paralytic drugs are administered for the duration of surgery, which can last for less than half an hour or up to several hours, depending on the procedure.
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What is the most toxic plant?

The oleander, also known as laurel of flower or trinitaria, is a shrub plant (of Mediterranean origin and therefore, resistant to droughts) with intensely green leaves and whose leaves, flowers, stems, branches and seeds are all highly poisonous, hence it is also known as "the most poisonous plant in the world".
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Where can I find belladonna?

High Density Locations. North of Merhojed and East of Rovna, in the Woodland garden next to the bandit camp. Between Rattay and Neuhof, on a field. Theres a few dozen Belladonna plants scattered among the Nettles and other herbs.
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Can you smoke belladonna?

If you use belladonna for its psychoactive effects, smoking the leaves in a bong or pipe is the safest and mildest way to try the plant for the first time. Since the psychotropic effects are not immediate, stagger your intake over time.
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Can belladonna help you sleep?

Belladonna has been used in alternative medicine for sleep-inducing (sedation) reasons along with other uses, such as: Arthritis pain and nerve pain (as painkiller ointments)
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Is mandrake real?

Mandragora officinarum is a real plant with a mythical past. Known more commonly as mandrake, the lore generally refers to the roots. Beginning in ancient times, the stories about mandrake included magical powers, fertility, possession by the devil, and more.
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What does Wolfsbane look like?

About Wolfsbane

It has purple flowers that are helmet shaped, from which it gets another name, monkshood.It can grow up to 1 meter or 3 feet tall. There is also a second species of Aconite, Aconitum lycocotonum, that has yellow flowers and is very similar to A. napellus.
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Which drug is made from mandrake?

Etoposide is a semisynthetic derivative of podophyllotoxin, an alkaloid from the May apple or mandrake plant.
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Can you buy arsenic?

Toxic chemicals such as strychnine, arsenic and cyanide are freely available for sale on the internet, leading toxicologists have warned.
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What flower is poisonous to humans?

Nerium oleander the sweetly scented killer

The elegant Nerium oleander, the blossoms of which are crimson, magenta or creamy white, is one of the most toxic plants in the world. Every part of the plant, from its stem to its sap, is incredibly poisonous if ingested.
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Do apple seeds contain cyanide?

Apple seeds (and the seeds of related plants, such as pears and cherries) contain amygdalin, a cyanogenic glycoside composed of cyanide and sugar. When metabolized in the digestive system, this chemical degrades into highly poisonous hydrogen cyanide (HCN).
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