Conditioned food aversion is a powerful experimental tool to modify animal diets. We have also investigated it as a potential management tool to prevent livestock from grazing poisonous plants such as tall larkspur (Delphinium barbeyi), white locoweed (Oxytropis sericea) and ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) on western US rangelands. The following principles pertain to increasing the strength an...

Plants produce poisons to protect themselves, sometimes at levels toxic enough kill human or livestock. Through trial and error, our forebears established which plants were edible caused harm. They then avoided the harmful species in some cases also knowingly used them as weapons rivals, criminals animals, drugs evoke hallucinations subject victims by ordeal. While knowledge of poisonous may ha...

Visha possess properties of Vyavayi(Pervading or diffusing action), Vikasi(Dispersed through out the body causes destruction Ojas and Dhatu Kshaya depletion tissues, Ushna(Heat), Teekshna(Penetrating), Ruksha(Dry), Sukshma(Minuteness), Ashukar(Quick immediate Vishada(Clearness), Laghu(Light), Avyakta Ras(Taste sometimes palatable not taste is hidden) Apaki(Not digestible). It distributes in who...

In Asia, aconitine poisoning is common because of the continued use of aconite roots in traditional medicine as an analgesic, anti-inflammatory, and cardiotonic agent. Aconitine and other Aconitum alkaloids are highly poisonous cardio-toxins and neurotoxins present in all parts of the plants of the Aconitum genus (aconite). The major toxin in these plants is aconitine, which interacts with the ...

Many plants contain toxic alkaloids which may be dangerous to humans. Despite the large number of poisonous plants, cases of fatal plant poisonings are relatively rare. The frequencies of poisonings and the plants involved are often regionally specific. Plant poisonings can be aggregated into three categories: unintended ingestions, intended ingestions, and poisoning due to abuse of plant mater...

was probably one of those simpler vegetable protein bases (amines), produced by enzyme action, both before and during the germinating processes. In feeding experiments on animals this substance was shown to be water soluble, differentiating it from the poisonous alkaloids of plants. As it was also soluble in chloroform, Stockman was able to extract it by the methods used for extracting alkaloid...