Rituals can kill – A fatal case of brucine poisoning

In some parts of India people follow a religious ritual of drinking an herbal preparation made from the bark of the Alstonia scholaris tree (Blackboard tree) on the day of the new moon in the month of July. This tree could be easily confused with the Strychnos nux vomica tree. Brucine is the predomi...

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Main Authors: Achappa, Basavaprabhu, Madi, Deepak, Babu, Y P Raghavendra, Mahalingam, Soundarya
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Australasian Medical Journal 2012
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Case Report
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3442185/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23024715
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.4066/AMJ.2012.1293
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