2023-08-07 20:38:04
A poisonous plant that can tingle the tongue and kill a human within 20 minutes. Monkshood, popularly known in Brazil as aconite, is present in one of the most exotic places in England: the Poison Garden.
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Also known by the popular names of Jupiter’s helmet, friar’s hood, Jupiter’s hull, napel, anapel, and wolfsbane, aconite has been known since antiquity and used as a poison. This Greek name was also used in the mythology of Mediterranean peoples as a synonym for “malefice” or “revenge”.
It was used to bathe the tips of darts and spears with aconite to fight or hunt. In popular belief, aconite is believed to scare away vampires.
Purple flowers draw attention
Aconite can confuse nature admirers. The plant has beautiful purple flowers, rarely white, in the shape of a helmet. It can reach up to 1.5 meters in height, and has dark green, palm-shaped and jagged leaves. mountainous regions, it is medicinal and is usually grown in gardens as an ornamental plant.
very poisonous
All parts of aconite are poisonous because they have different alkaloids. The risk to health occurs in case of ingestion, but not only. G1even direct contact of the roots on a person’s skin, for about an hour, can cause heart problems. The plant was identified as the cause of the death of a young gardener, in 2014, in a city near London.
medicinal properties
Aconite is used in medicine and can be prescribed for the treatment of anxiety. Introduced in therapy, aconite was used as a sedative, diuretic and analgesic. It also serves to help treat fear, phobia, asthma, bronchitis, pulmonary congestion, pneumonia , fever with delirium, skin wounds, gout, flu, laryngitis, rheumatism and ulcers. But it can only be used if recommended by a health professional.
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