“…ambelline, caranine, crinamine, crinine, lycorine, narwedine, tazettine, ismine and galanthine (50 mg/Kg, in rabbits) 31,50 , while haemanthamine exhibited hypertensive properties 51 . The alkaloid narwedine was found to decrease the frequency of cardiac contractions, while galanthamine is known to cause bradycardia or atrioventricular conduction disturbance 52 . Galanthamine HBr was found to cause a fall in blood pressure in anaesthetized dogs, an effect apparently associated with a transient decrease in respiration 53 .…”