Argemone Oil, Sanguinarine, and Epidemic-Dropsy Glaucoma

Argemone oil, sanguinarine, and epidemic-dropsy glaucoma.

Argemone mexicana Linn. (Linnaeus, 1753; Tournefort, 1694), is a herb of the Papaveraceae (poppy family) indigenous to the West Indies (Fig. 1). The study of this herb and its active principles is important, first to circumvent the serious epidemics of dropsy and glaucoma resulting from the unintentional ingestion of its seed oil in tropical countries; secondly to find a method of producing in ...

Epidemic Dropsy. A New Test for Argemone Oil

Epidemic dropsy is a disease occurring in epidemic or endemic form characterized clinically by (edema, erythema, cutaneous nodules, diarrhoea, cardiac failure, glaucoma and/or abortion in pregnant women. Pathologically there is an extensive dilatation and engorgement of the capillaries in the skin and the internal organs. Its ajtiology has been traced to the use of adulterated mustard oil, the ...

Glaucoma and Epidemic Dropsy

Epidemic Dropsy Glaucoma

Cardiovascular manifestations in Argemone mexicana poisoning (epidemic dropsy).

THE SYNDROME of epidemic dropsy is characterized by edema, its other chief manifestations being diarrhea, pyrexia, anemia, dyspnea, tachyeardia, and elevated erythrocyte sedimentation rate. It was earlier believed to be a toxic syndrome eaused by ingestion of poisonous bases formed in rice under certain conditions.' That the disease is due to argemone poisoning has since been shown by the findi...