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Towse wrote:



From Clinical Toxicology, CJ Polson, 3rd ed.

It's a matter of dosage, I understand. The fine line between just enough
and too much seems to vary from soul to soul and from plant to plant.


Yeah. A few kids end up on the table every time Castaneda becomes
popular again. If you look at the literature, sporadic clusters
of people, usually adolescent males (in the US), pop up every
two or three years.

It could be worse, there are 10 times more people poisoned by
Philodendrons every year. I don't know what it is about
kids and Philodendrons. At least that is almost never fatal.


My favorite is still "mad honey" made by bees from the nectar
of Rhododendrons and azaleas.

See:

Sutlupinar N, Mat A, Satganoglu Y. Poisoning by toxic honey in Turkey.
Arch Toxicol. 1993;67(2):148-50


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