info. poisonous plant:Hellebore/Veratrum Stamineum

wxyz (mailto:m940219m@EDS.ECIP.NAGOYA-U.AC.JP)
Wed, 17 May 1995 19:13:35 +0900

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Date:         Wed, 17 May 1995 19:13:35 +0900
From: wxyz <mailto:m940219m@EDS.ECIP.NAGOYA-U.AC.JP>
Subject:      info. poisonous plant:Hellebore/Veratrum Stamineum
To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L

I would be very grateful if somebody would inform me about a poisonous
plant called Veratrum Stamineum (apparently the plant is known as Hellebore
in the West.  It is a native plant from Asia).

I am posting this question on behalf of a friend. She is gone to a forest in Asia and she ate the Veratrum Stamineum by mistake and was taken to hospital. The immediate symptoms were (temporary) convulsions, blindness and deathness. It took 40 minutes for her to receive medical treatment, and although her blood tests demonstrated that there were no severe consequences (she is having her liver checked again now) and she recuperated her sight and earing funtions later, she still complains about a certain noise in her ears. Medical doctors said that the noisy in her ears might disappear in some days, but because my friend is not in her home country and she does not speak the language of the country where she is in properly, she is having difficulties to communicate with the doctors and she is very worried about the consequences of the poison. Can somebody working with poisonous plants tell me anything about it? Please if you know any person who might help in giving information, please forward this question to him or her. Thank you very much.

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