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Cusco-bark also known as cuzco-bark is the bark of Cinchona pubescens, which comes from Cuzco, in South America. It contains a peculiar alkaloid called cusco-cinchonine, or cusconine, which resembles cinchonine in its physical qualities, but differs from it in its chemical properties. When applied medicinally it excites warmth in the system, and was therefore formerly recommended to be given in cold intermittents and low typhoid states of the system.
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Daturine is a poisonous alkaloid found in the thorn-apple (Datura Stramonium), said to be identical with atropine, the alkaloid from deadly nightshade.
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Erythroxylon Coca is a South American shrub which grows from one to two metres tall and is cultivated for its leaves (Coca) which are a powerful stimulant and the alkaloid derived from the leaves, cocaine.
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The greenheart (Nectandra Rodioei) is a tree of the family Lauraceae. It is native to Guiana where it is also called the bebeeru. The bark contains the alkaloid bebeerine.
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Laburnum is a highly poisonous deciduous shrub or small tree of the family Leguminosae with smooth greyish-green bark and trifoliate, long-stalked leaves which are dark-green and glabrous above, paler and felted below. The flowers are yellow and arranged in long drooping racemes. The fruit is a brown pod containing black seeds, which contain the highly toxic alkaloid cytisine.
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Sabadilla (Schoenocaulon officinale) is a Mexican liliaceous plant. It bears linear, grass-like leaves and dense racemes of yellowish flowers. Its seeds, which contain the alkaloid veratrine, were formerly used in medicine as an emetic and purgative. Now the seeds are used to prepare insecticide.
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Cocaine (benzoylmethyl ecgonine) is an alkaloid derived from the leaves of the coca plant. It is a white crystalline powder used as a local anaesthetic and also, illegally, as a euphoric drug. Cocaine taken recreationally is cut into a fine powder, arranged in what is termed a line, and inhaled through the nose - typically through a rolled-up banknote. A form of cocaine, known as crack, is smoked.
Cocaine provides the user with about thirty minutes of good-feeling, users report an increase in awareness, self confidence and sexual pleasure - the cocaine prevents the re-absorption of dopamine in the brain. Taking alcohol with cocaine enhances the effect of the cocaine. However, after about thirty minutes the effects wear off and the users may be left feeling depressed and paranoid. Inhaling cocaine often causes irritation to the sinuses, a condition known as a Columbian cold, and prolonged use can destroy the lining of the nose. Some sources claim that cocaine can cause cardiac arrest or strokes through increased blood pressure.
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Colchicin is an alkaloid obtained from colchicum, used for the alleviation or cure of gout and rheumatism. It acts as an emetic, diuretic, and cathartic, in large doses as a narcotico-acrid poison.
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Digitalin is a vegetable alkaloid drug derived from the leaves of the digitalis (foxglove) plant that increases heart efficiency. Digitalin has a bitter taste, and is a strong poison.
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Emetine is an alkaloid obtained from the dried roots of Psychotria ipecacuanha, a Brazilian plant.
Emetine is a white powder employed in the treatment of amoebic dysentery and also as an anthelmintic.
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