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 ...

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

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 ...

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 Section of Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics (A.P.L.), Cardiovascular Research Institute (A.P.L., X.H.T.W.), and Departments of Molecular Physiology and ...