Cicuta

The common hemlock, Conium maculatum, contain five alkaloids. Power and Tutin found a similar mixture in fool s parsley, and a volatile alkaloid resembling coniine i.s stated to occur in certain aroids. According to Svagr, water hemlock Cicuta virosa) owes its poisonous properties to toxin and not to cicutine, a name sometimes used as a synonym for coniine. The toxic properties of hemlock juice have been known ftom very early times thus it was the chief ingredient in the poison administered to criminals by the Greeks. The leaves and the unripe fruits are the parts used in medicine. The following are the names and formulae of the alkaloids —... [Pg.13]

Chondrodendron polyanthum, 371 Chondrodendron tomentosum, 363, 371, 373, 377, 391 alkaloids, 376 Chondrodine, 363, 364 Chondrofoline, 364, 365 Chrycentrine, 172, 313 Chiysanthemine, 773 Chrysanthemum cineraricefoHum, 773 Chuchuara, 781 Chuehuhuasha, 781 Cicuta virosa, 13 Cinchamidine, 419, 429 Cinchene, 439 Cinchenine, 438, 439, 440 apoCinchenine, 440, 441 Cincholoipon, 438 Cincholoiponic acid, 438, 443 Cinchomeronic acid, 183 Cinchona alkaloid structure, synthesis, 457 Cinchona alkaloids, bactericidal action of some derivatives, 478 centres of asymmetry, 445 constitution, 435 formulae and characters of transformation products, 449, 451 general formula, 443 hydroxydihydro-bases, 448, 452-4 melting-points and specific rotations, 446... [Pg.787]

Jacobson, C. A. Cicutoxin The Poisonous Principle in Water Hemlock (Cicuta). J. Amer. Chem. Soc. 37, 916 (1915). [Pg.270]

Pohl, J. Die giftigen Bestandteile der Oenanthe crocata und der Cicuta... [Pg.272]

Figure 2.15 Nitrogen-free toxins from Cicuta spp. (a) the highly toxic cicutoxin, and (b) the less toxic cicutol.

Panter, K.E., Baker, D.C. and Kechele, P.O. (1996). Water hemlock (Cicuta douglasii). toxicosis in sheep Pathologic description and prevention of lesions and death, J. Vet. Diagn. Invest., 8, 474 480. [Pg.69]

Veatch, S.L., Cicuta, P., Sengupta, P., Honerkamp-Smith, A., Holowka, D., Baird, B. Critical fluctuations in plasma membrane vesicles. ACS Chem. Biol. 2008, 3, 287-93. [Pg.17]

Ohta, T. Uwai, K. Kikuchi, R. Nozoe, S. Oshima, Y. Sasaki, K. Yoshizaki, F. (1999) Absolute stCTeochemistry of cicutoxin and related toxic pofyacetylauc alcohols frran Cicuta virosa. Tetrahedron, 55, 12087-98. [Pg.331]

C. madagascariensis, C. virgata, Chaeropliyllum tainlurieri, Cham-maele decumbens, Cicuta mexicana, Cnidium formosanum, Conium chaerophylloides, Cryplotaenia canadensis, Daucus carota,... [Pg.214]

Cicutoxin offidnalis (valerian) (Valerianacaeae) Cicuta virosa (water hemlock) GABAA-R chloride channel... [Pg.108]

Several polyacetylenes are known to be generally toxic. Thus the plant extract used by the natives of the Lower Amazon Basin as fish poison on their arrow heads contains the tetrahydropyran alcohol 18 as active principle (it also occurs in dahlias ), whilst the high toxicity of the water hemlock (Cicuta virosa L.) is due to cicutoxin (17) . ... [Pg.118]

Convulsant, e.g. from water dropwort (Oenanthe) and cowbane (Cicuta), which contain the related and very dangerous substances, oenanthotoxin and cicutoxin. [Pg.161]

Caucalis (burr parsley) Centella (centella) Chaerophyllum (chervil) Cicuta (water hemlock) Cnidium (snow parsley) Conioselinum (hemlock parsley)... [Pg.327]

Synonyms Cicuta maculata, Apiaceae (carrot) family, Cicuta species Cowbane Snakeweed Wild carrot Poison parsnip Spotted hemlock Masquash root Beaver poison False parsley Fever root Wild parsnip... [Pg.1307]

Cicuta Virosa is a perennial herb, which grows up to a height of more than 3. It has a hollow stalk and a thick root stem. This root stem has many small pockets containing a yellow sap with an aroma like celery and a sweet taste like parsnip. The leaves will cluster in 2 and 3 s, surrounded by tiny individual leaflets. The tiny white flowers grow in... [Pg.50]

Conium Maculatum can grow to be about 6 to 10 tall on long purple stalks and branches. White flower heads resemble those of parsnips, carrots, and water hemlock(Cicuta Virosa)... [Pg.51]

COWBANE Cicuta virosa, L., Family Apiaceae, grows in shallow waters. All parts of the plant, especially the rhizome and lower part of stalk, are poisonous. The lethal dose for adults is one rhizome. The symptoms might appear within minutes to hours with a burning sensation in the mouth and throat, increased secretion of saliva, stomach-ache, vomiting, diarrhoea and fever. [Pg.142]

Cicuta maculata, or water hemlock, produces the most deadly toxin indigenous to North America. [Pg.330]

False parsley CIcuta maculate 1 Water hemlock cicutoxin causes seizures. [Pg.313]

Hemiock (water hemiock) Cicuta maculata 1 Cicutoxin seizures... [Pg.314]

Snake root CIcuta macutata 1 Water hemlock seizures... [Pg.317]

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