Experiment 960659
Details
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Pharmacology | |
| Administration route | VAGINAL |
| Organism | Trichosanthes kirilowii (CUCURBITACEAE) |
| Citation | ZHANG,YG: HUANG,GZ:. (1988). POISONING BY TOXIC PLANTS IN CHINA. REPORT OF 19 AUTOPSY CASES.. 9(4) |
| Amount utilized | |
| Compound isolated | |
| Disease | 2 WOMEN DIED AFTER USING THIS PLANT AS AN ABORTIFACIENT. THE 1ST VICTIM WAS A 23-YEAR OLD ACTRESS WHO DIED ON THE 3RD AFTERNOON AFTER ATTEMPTING AN ABORTION IN THE HOSPITAL BY FILLING HER VAGINA WITH A MIXTURE OF CHINESE HERBAL MEDICINES. THIS MIXTURE INCLUDED 0.25 GM OF THE TITLE PLANT. ABOUT 3 HOURS PRIOR TO DEATH SHE EXPERIENCED TREMORS, FEVER, PAINS IN THE ARMS AND LEGS, VOMITING, CYANOSIS AND FINALLY COMA. THERE WAS EXTENSIVE MYOCARDIAL CELL DEGENERATION, CONGESTION, EDEMA AND FOCAL HEMORRHAGE OF THE LUNGS, SERIOUS EDEMA OF THE BRAIN AND WIDESPREAD CONGESTION OF OTHER ORGANS. THE SECOND VICTIM WAS A 21 YEAR OLD UNMARRIED PREGNANT WOMAN WHO INDUCED ABORTION WITH BITS OF A BROKEN ROOT TUBER OF THE TITLE PLANT THAT SHE WRAPPED IN GAUZE AND INSERTED INTO HER VAGINA. SHE SUFFERED RASH AND FEVER ON DAY 2 AND URINARY INCONTINENCE ON DAY 5. SHE DELIVERED A 5-MONTH OLD FETUS ON DAY 6, BECAME COMATOSE, FROTHED AT THE MOUTH AND DIED ON DAY 7. |
| Dose amount | O.25 GM |
| Number | 1 |
| Qualitative result | ACTIVE |
| Animal | HUMAN(PREGNANT) |
| Per unit | PERSON |
| Dose expression | DOSE |
| Extract | ROOT |