This perilous flora contains a potent poison called aconitine, capable of inducing respiratory and cardiac failure within hours of contact. Ingestion of this toxic substance may produce symptoms ...

Wolf's bane, or Aconitum, is a highly toxic perennial plant that looks extraordinarily beautiful but also poses a deadly ...

Aconitum contains aconitine, a powerful toxin that can cause nausea, vomiting, and death through respiratory failure if ingested. Oleander contains cardiac glycosides, which can lead to severe heart ...

These findings support the circus movement hypothesis as the mechanism of pure atrial flutter. In contrast, with aconitine tachysystole, activation proceeded over both atria at once and was so brief ...

From the Department of Pharmacology (K.-C.Y.) and Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine (K.-C.Y.), National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; Division of Cardiovascular ...