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Toxin (Part 3).

Pertinax

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What better time of year to add another toxicological entry?

 

Nicotine: alkaloid insecticidal chemical, can be toxic if ingested through the skin or inhaled.

 

Ordeal bean (Physostigma venemosum) a member of the pea family, a west African native.One quarter bean can be fatal to an adult.

 

Oxygen: poisinous to anerobic bacteria Which is why exposing a gangrenous wound to the air (ie: oxygen)

helps the cleansing of that wound. Essential to metabolism -many poisons work by impeding its progress to our blood.Botox is of course a derivative of Clostridium botulinum a virulent anerobic bacteria which is now routinely pumped into womens faces, killing the surrounding flesh and relaxing frown lines (leaving neat pockets of anerobic hapiness).

 

Quinine: very poisinous in a large dose, anti malarial in a controlled one.

 

Ricin: castor oil seed cake residue -only a few seeds are needed to kill.

 

Rotenone: a pesticide made from the root of Jamaica dogwood (fish poison tree) .

 

Strychnine: from the dried ripe Nux vomica seed.

 

Wormwood: atremisia, which kills helminths (human intestinal/encysted worms).

 

Thats it for the abbreviated glossary, I hope to add some notes on the historical use of these items particularly in relation to the classical world.

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Pertinax

You forgot to mention that the artemisia will turn you into a violent psychopathic criminal. :ph34r:

In fairness , only if the thujone content is high enough.Otherwise just expect morbid melancholia.

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Moonlapse

I was poking fun at the idiots who banned absinthe! Do you know these symptoms from experience? :ph34r:

 

BTW, my Christmas turkey was seasoned with sage, ahhh the urge to kill!!!

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Pertinax

I was poking fun at the idiots who banned absinthe! Do you know these symptoms from experience? :ph34r:

 

BTW, my Christmas turkey was seasoned with sage, ahhh the urge to kill!!!

 

The thujone content needs to be high, and the consumption prodigious and sustained.

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Antiochus of Seleucia

Or as Paracelsus says "The dose makes the poison" ie: anything might be toxic if ingested too often :rolleyes:

 

Just like you can die if you consume too much water.

 

Or peanut butter.

 

 

Ricin was near the top of a list of some of the world's most dangerous poisons I read somewhere. Eek.

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Gaius Paulinus Maximus

Just started reading all the blogs, all of which i've found very funny and interesting but if i ever find myself in the situation where i need to 'bump' :ph34r: somebody off i know exactly who's blog i'll be visiting first :rolleyes:

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