Medicinal Plants of the Pacific West

Moore, M. Medicinal Plants of the Pacific West. Santa Fe Red Crane Publishers, 1993. 

Moore, M. 1993. Medicinal Plants of the Pacific West. Red Crane Books, Santa Fe, NM. Morton, J. F. 1974. Folk Remedies of the Low Countries. Seemann, Miami, FL. 

There is a long history of the use of Aconitum, Delphinium and Consolida species as the source of poisons and medicinals [1]. These three genera in Ranunculaceae family yield diterpenoid and norditerpenoid alkaloids. The name Delphinium derived from dolphine-delphine due to the shape of their flower buds [2]. Aconitum has an evil reputation from the antiquity [3]. The plant was used as poison in old Greece, also in north-west Pacific the natives used it to poison the whales and also as arrow poison. In England in the ancient times the plant was used against wolves, boars, tigers as well as against rodents, and it was also a homicide material [4]. 

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