Pflanzenvergiftungen — psychiatrische Aspekte

Abstract

Plant poisonings have been reported since ancient times. Despite this, little attention is paid to intoxications with herbal poisons by psychiatric literature and the danger from poisonous plants is commonly underestimated. This problem is discussed here, and advice for the prevention of plant poisonings and generally dealing with patients intoxicated by herbal poisons is given.

Plant poisonings – a problem extending the scope of ethnopharmacology

“…(family: Apocynaceae) to be found in many gardens and parks, poisonous plants are chosen for suicide also in our society. We were confronted with this problem in several cases of plant poisonings by suicidal patients in our hospitals (Kawohl and Habermeyer, 2003;Kawohl et al, 2005).…”