A 24-year-old woman presented to the Emergency Department with palpitations and watery emesis 2 hours after ingesting a cup of tea. The tea had been brewed from dried flowers that had been picked in a mountainous area of southern California. She had previously dissolved the flowers in oil and applied them topically to resolve bruises. She ingested the flowers in tea in an attempt to
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