When plants poison…

2023-06-28 08:00:02

While some plants are edible and widely used in our kitchens (and in the pharmacopoeia), some expose us to the risk of serious poisoning, sometimes fatal. Thus, the consumption of a few leaves of oleander, sometimes confused with bay leaf, can cause cardiac arrest.

How to recognize poisonous plants? What to do in case of ingestion? What are the symptoms that should alert?

Dr Jérôme Langrand, boss you service you Paris Poison Control and Toxicovigilance Center Dr. Jacques Fleurentin, pharmacist, president of the French Society of Ethnopharmacology in Metz, eastern France

Professor Sahar Traore, Associate Lecturer in Pharmacognosy. Researcher at the Institute for Research and Development of Medicinal and Food Plants of Guinea. Lecturer in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Gamal Abdel Nasser University from Conakry.

Report by Louise Caledec at the René-Dumont Tropical Agronomy Garden, in the Bois de Vincennes, during a initiation walk to edible and toxic wild plants organized by the associative urban farm V’île fertile.

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