Chopra et al. (1939) showed, by a controlled feeding experiment in man, that argemone oil (expressed from the seeds of a weed Argemone mexicana) produces symptoms resembling those of epidemic dropsy. In this experiment five individuals, who ate food cooked in mustard oil containing known quantities of argemone oil, developed well-marked oedema and two of them showed the characteristic flushed a...

Objective: We report an outbreak of epidemic dropsy following ingestion of cooking groundnut-oil adulterated with Argemone oil. Methods: We describe 40 patients (18 families) from three towns in Gujarat in 1998, affected with epidemic dropsy during an outbreak and its control measures. They were successfully treated with supportive measures and antioxidants. The outbreak control measures used w...

There is at present considerable agitation in the country over the adulteration of mustard oil with argemone oil. It has been fully realized that ingestion of mustard oil contaminated with argemone oil produces symptoms similar to those of epidemic dropsy. The experiments carried out in the field and the observations made by the various workers in this respect support the argemone contamination...

CYP719A14 structure analysis and its interaction with ligands via bioinformatic methods. Methods. Homologous modeling of three-dimensional enzyme. Molecular docking. Results. enzyme, which shows cheilanthifoline synthase activity, model was build based on results homologous modeling. Interaction built possible substrates – benzylisoquinoline compounds: (S)-Scoulerine, (S)-Cheilanthifoline, (S)-...

Objective: The present report describes the green synthesis of Zinc oxide nanoparticles (ZnO NPs) using Argemone maxicana leaf extract by an eco-friendly approach. Also, the in-vitro cytotoxicity of prepared ZnO NPs against the cardiac cell lines of Sahul India Catla catla fish (SICH) was studied. Methods: ZnO NPs were prepared by using Argemone maxicana leaf extract as reducing and stabilizing...

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 ...

1st July last, page 197), has given a faint idea of the medicinal properties of the oil of ?' Argemone Mexicana"?Linn. Ccalled in Bengal Slie-al Kanta, and in Upper India Karivah). He was not aware that a number of experiments have been made in Oudh, which prove it to be a much more useful oil than for the mere purposes of burning. Some time ago I read in Simmond's '' Commercial Products of the...

The poppy of Argemone Mexicana are high in protein, carbohydrates, lipids and minerals. They are also rich in novel alkaloids, and sterols The poppy of Argemone species contain a high concentration of berberine and sanguinarine alkaloids The alkaloids of argemone are widely used as Analgesic; Antispasmodic; Demulcent; Emetic; Expectorant; Hallucinogenic; Purgative; Sedative; Skin; WartsThe root...