Experiment 1210884
Details
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Pharmacology | |
| Administration route | ORAL |
| Organism | Jatropha curcas (EUPHORBIACEAE) |
| Citation | MAMPANE,KJ: JOUBERT,PH: HAY,IT:. (1987). JATROPHA CURCAS: USE AS A TRADITIONAL TSWANA MEDICINE AND ITS ROLE AS A CAUSE OF ACUTE POISONING.. 1(1) |
| Amount utilized | |
| Compound isolated | |
| Disease | OF 58 CASES OF PLANT POISONING SEEN AT A SOUTH AFRICAN HOSPITAL, 50 WERE DUE TO MISTAKEN INGESTION OF JATROPHA CURCAS SEEDS, WHICH PATIENTS TOOK FOR EDIBLE NUTS. ALL PATIENTS HAD MARKED NAUSEA, ABDOMINAL PAIN AND VOMITING. 16 HAD DIARRHEA. RECOVERY WAS RAPID. OF 43 PATIENTS WITH POISIONING DUE TO TRADITIONAL MEDICINES, 31 HAD SYMPTOMS SIMILAR TO THE GASTROINTESINAL IRRITATION CAUSED BY JATROPHA CURCAS, BUT THIS COULD HAVE BEEN DUE TO OTHER PLANT PURGATIVES. |
| Number | 2 |
| Animal | HUMAN CHILD |
| Extract | SEEDS |