Type of Flower
Conium:
Conium is a genus of i or 2 species of highly poisonous perennial herbaceous flowering plants inwards the work solid unit of measurement Apiaceae, native to Europe as well as the Mediterranean percentage equally Conium maculatum (known popularly equally Hemlock), as well as to southern Africa equally Conium chaerophylloides.
By far the to a greater extent than familiar species is Conium maculatum (Hemlock or Poison Hemlock). It is a herbaceous biennial establish that grows betwixt 1.5–2.5 metres (5–8 ft) tall, alongside a shine light-green stem, unremarkably spotted or streaked alongside blood-red or imperial on the lower one-half of the stem. The leaves are finely divided as well as lacy, overall triangular inwards shape, upwardly to fifty centimetres (20 in) long as well as xl centimetres (16 in) broad. The flowers are small, white, clustered inwards umbels upwardly to 10–15 centimetres (4–6 in) across. When crushed, the leaves as well as origin emit a rank, unpleasant smell oft compared to that of parsnips.
C. maculatum is known yesteryear several mutual names. As good equally the English linguistic communication "Poison hemlock" as well as the Irish Gaelic "Devil's Bread" or "Devil's Porridge", at that spot are likewise Beaver Poison, Herb Bennet (not to hold upwardly confused alongside Herb Robert), Musquash Root, Poison Parsley, Spotted Corobane, as well as Spotted Hemlock. The seeds are sometimes called Kecksies or Kex. Hemlock seed heads inwards slow summertime Conium comes from the Greek konas (meaning to whirl), inwards reference to vertigo, i of the symptoms of ingesting the plant.
Conium contains the piperidine alkaloids coniine, N-methylconiine, conhydrine, pseudoconhydrine as well as gamma-coniceine (or g-coniceïne), which is the precursor of the other hemlock alkaloids.
The virtually noted of these chemicals is coniine, which has a chemic construction as well as pharmacological properties similar to nicotine.Coniine disrupts the workings of the fundamental nervous organization through activity on nicotinic acetylcholine receptors. In high plenty concentrations Coniine tin hold upwardly unsafe to humans as well as livestock.Due to high potency, the ingestion of seemingly minor doses tin easily outcome inwards respiratory collapse as well as death.Coniine causes expiry yesteryear blocking the neuromuscular junction inwards a fashion similar to curare; this results inwards an ascending muscular paralysis alongside eventual paralysis of the respiratory muscles which results inwards expiry due to lack of oxygen to the take in as well as brain. Death tin hold upwardly prevented yesteryear artificial ventilation until the effects convey worn off 48–72 hours later.For an adult the ingestion of to a greater extent than than 100 mg (0.1 grams) of coniine (approximately half dozen to 8 fresh leaves, or a smaller dose of the seeds or root) may hold upwardly fatal.
Poison hemlock has been used equally a sedative as well as for its antispasmodic properties.It was likewise used yesteryear Greek as well as Farsi physicians for a diverseness of problems, such equally arthritis.It was non ever effective, however, equally the departure betwixt therapeutic as well as toxic amounts is real slight. Overdoses tin hit paralysis as well as loss of speech, followed yesteryear depression of the respiratory function, as well as thence death. In improver it is an of import remedy inwards homeopathy, commencement introduced yesteryear Hahnemann inwards his Materia Medica Pura.