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Plants with Known Toxicity
List of toxic plants |
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While there might be a increasing movement away from synthetic prescription pharmaceuticals because of cost, toxicities, or plain distrust of 'big pharma, the shift towards the use of herbal medicinal plants, is fraught with the same shortcomings: misinformation and lack of comprehensible knowledge. Even on the grass roots level, the average barangay health worker (BHW) is woefully ignorant on what and how to disseminate herbal medicinal information. A treaure trove of plant information lies unused while word-of-mouth dissemination of old folkloric use continues to decline, slowly disappearing from the rural culture. This is a list in progress, far from complete, added on as I do the updating of the medicinal plants for scientifc studies. While some are well known in the rural grapevine for their toxicity, many, surprisingly, are not. The toxicities are quite varied: fish poison and arrow poison uses, abortifacient properties, hallucinogenic effects, liver, renal, and other organ toxicities. Many have short-term gastrointestinal effects. Some toxicities are dose-dependent; some are toxic simply because of over-consumption of certain plant parts. Sometimes toxicity is brought about by herb-drug interactions. Fruits may be toxic when unripe, but safely edible when ripe. Some have caused accidental deaths, while some have been used with suicidal or homicidal intent. Patients may be well-advised to discuss their alternative herbal plant regimens with their physicians. But, alas, invariably, there is never enough time for this in the limited time and hurried consultations given to patients. Furthermore, rare is the physician with the medicinal plant knowledge to advise patients on drug-herb interactions. |
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Last Updated August 2024 |
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| If you are aware of a plant in the medicinal plant compilation with known toxicity not included in the above list. please send the name to: <[email protected]> | ||
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Sources and Suggested Readings (1) Beware, These Philippine Plants Could Kill You / Pinoy Top Tens |
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| New plant names needed The compilation now contain more than 1,100 medicinal plants.The last 100 plants came with great difficulty, many by happenstance, a few contributed to or suggested by site visitors. I believe there are hundreds more that can be added to this compilation. Please send suggestions for inclusion with as much of the following information: local plant name, scientific name, known folkloric medicinal use, and a photo. | ||
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Updated September 2024
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| List of Understudied Philippine Medicinal Plants |
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