Calabar bean
ordeal bean
physostigma venenosum latin

More evidence is needed to rate the effectiveness of calabar bean for these uses.

While calabar bean isn't safe for anyone, some people are at even greater risk for serious side effects.

At this time there is not enough scientific information to determine an appropriate range of doses for calabar bean.

Be especially careful to avoid calabar bean if: You are pregnant or breast-feeding.

Calabar bean might decrease the effects of drying medications.

Calabar bean contains a chemical that affects signals between muscles and nerves.

But calabar bean works differently than drying medications.

The appropriate dose of calabar bean depends on several factors such as the user's age, health, and several other conditions.

It occurs naturally in the Calabar bean.

Laqueur noticed that extracts of the Calabar bean significantly lowered intraocular pressure.

When Julian completed his synthesis, the melting point matched the correct one for natural physostigmine from the calabar bean.

As medicine, Calabar bean is used for eye problems, constipation, epilepsy, cholera, and tetanus.

Physostigmine is an ingredient of the Calabar bean that West African tribes used in witchcraft trials.

Calabar bean contains physostigmine, a reversible cholinesterase inhibitor alkaloid.

Historically, African tribes used calabar bean, the "ordeal bean," to identify witches and people possessed by evil spirits.

Calabar bean is a source of the prescription drug physostigmine (Isopto Eserine, Antilirium).

She has been poisoned with physostigmine sulphate, an extract from the Calabar bean that her husband has been researching.

Calabar bean is UNSAFE.

The Calabar bean is the seed of a leguminous plant, Physostigma venenosum, a native of tropical Africa, poisonous to humans.

The main antidote to Calabar bean poisoning is atropine, which may often succeed; and the other measures are those usually employed to stimulate the circulation and respiration.

Laqueur is remembered for his research of physostigmine, a chemical substance found in the Calabar bean (Physostigma venenosa) of West Africa.

Ordeal by bean is an (outlawed) Nigerian tribal custom whereby accused individuals are forced to eat a lethal strain of bean called the Calabar bean.

Physostigmine (also known as eserine from éséré, West African name for the Calabar bean) is a parasympathomimetic alkaloid, specifically, a reversible cholinesterase inhibitor.

Julian also extracted stigmasterol, which took its name from Physostigma venenosum, the west African calabar bean that he hoped could serve as raw material for synthesis of human steroidal hormones.

Mrs. Barbara Franklin was poisoned by the Calabar bean in Curtain, the last novel both for the author Agatha Christie and her fictional detective Hercule Poirot.

Historically, African tribes used calabar bean, the "ordeal bean," to identify witches and people possessed by evil spirits.

They constitute the E-ser-e or ordeal beans of the people of Old Calabar, being administered to persons accused of witchcraft or other crimes.

Chop Nut, Esere Nut, Faba Calabarica, Fève de Calabar, Ordeal Bean, Physostigma, Physostigma venenosum.

Atropine from deadly nightshade, eserine from the ordeal bean of old Calabar, the alkaloids from the arrow poison curare all yielded useful medicines when their properties were studied carefully and the right dose was used for beneficial instead of destructive ends.

The Calabar bean is the seed of a leguminous plant, Physostigma venenosum, a native of tropical Africa, poisonous to humans.

Chop Nut, Esere Nut, Faba Calabarica, Fève de Calabar, Ordeal Bean, Physostigma, Physostigma venenosum.

The plants that are rich in non-isoprenoid indole alkaloids include harmal (Peganum harmala), which contains harmane, harmine and harmaline, and Calabar bean (Physostigma venenosum) containing physostigmine.

Robertson made several contributions in the field of ophthalmology; in 1863 he researched the effects on the eye made by physostigmine, an extract from the Calabar bean (Physostigma venenosum), which is found in tropical Africa.