Nicotinic poisoning (coniine, nicotine, cytisine)

Nicotinic poisoning (coniine, nicotine, cytisine): how soon does it show?

Minutes to an hour.

How does it run?

Salivation, nausea, trembling, then an ascending paralysis of the muscles with the mind clear, and death by the stopping of the breath: the death of Socrates, as Plato describes it.

What is done for it?

Breathing for the patient until the drug is cleared; there is no antidote.

Historical and descriptive, not medical advice. In a poisoning, call a poison centre or emergency services.

Which substances in the database cause it?

B

PlantBroomGinestra Spanish broom, Spartium junceum, or common broom, Cytisus scoparius.Canale

G

PlantGorseFurze Ulex europaeus. A spiny, coconut-scented, yellow-flowered shrub of heath and common land.

H

Plant HemlockCicuta; Greek kōneion Poison hemlock, Conium maculatum, of the carrot family.Caution

L

PlantLesser bean-trefoilAnagiride minore Stinking bean trefoil, Anagyris foetida, a Mediterranean shrub. “Female bean trefoil” in the oil of ch. 9 is the same plant.CanaleCaution

T

PlantTobaccoNicotiana; herba sancta, herba panacea Nicotiana tabacum.Caution