Consumption of rye and related cereals contaminated with the fungus " Claviceps purpurea " causes ergot poisoning and ergotism in humans and other mammals.
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Other theories suggest that the symptoms were similar to encephalitis, epilepsy, and typhus, but as with ergotism, those conditions cannot account for all symptoms.
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Mandrake root was used often as a protection against ergotism, and the fruit was used as an anesthetic, which helped with necessary amputations resulting from disease.
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Ergotism is the name for sometimes severe pathological syndromes affecting humans or other animals that have ingested plant material containing ergot alkaloid, such as ergot-contaminated grains.
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In 1976, Linnda R . Caporael put forward the theory that these strange symptoms may have been caused by ergotism, the ingestion of fungus-infected rye.
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Ergotism is the name for sometimes severe pathological syndromes affecting humans or animals that have ingested ergot alkaloid-containing plant material, such as ergot-contaminated grains.
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In the past, many such afflictions, including ergotism, erysipelas, and shingles, were referred to as " St . Anthony's fire ".
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Ergotism is an illness that can result from eating rye and other grains infected by ergot fungi ( which produce LSD-25-like toxins in infected products ).
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Ergot infection causes a reduction in the yield and quality of grain and hay, and if livestock eat infected grain or hay it may cause a disease called ergotism.
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The relationship between ergot and ergotism was established only in 1717, and the alkaloid ergotamine, one of the main active ingredients of ergot, was isolated in 1918.
