Sneezing powders containing " Veratrum album " alkaloids have been linked to poisoning, including low blood pressure.
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Protoveratrine is the name of an alkaloid extracted from Veratrum album that has been claimed to have use in the treatment of hypertension.
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Regarding the herbaceous plants, well established populations of " Veratrum album " are present in the mountain so as other species commonly called'lilies '.
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The larvae are polyphagous and have been recorded feeding on " Vaccinium " and " Luzula " species, as well as " Veratrum album ".
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The article was published in the peer-reviewed medical journal " Clinical Toxicology " and suggested that if Alexander was poisoned, " Veratrum album " offers the most plausible cause.
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However, in a 2003 BBC documentary investigating the death of Alexander, Leo Schep from the New Zealand National Poisons Centre proposed that the plant white hellebore ( " Veratrum album " ), which was known in antiquity, may have been used to poison Alexander.
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"Veratrum album ", or white hellebore, an herbal medicine described by Hippocrates before 400 BC, contains the alkaloids cyclopamine and jervine, which are teratogens capable of causing cyclopia and holoprosencephaly, severe birth defects in which a fetus can be born with a single eye.
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His thesis very thoroughly examined the historical literature and sought to differentiate between the ancient use of " Helleborus niger ", or black hellebore, and the medicinal uses of the " white hellebore ", botanically " Veratrum album ", both of which are poisonous plants.
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In a 2014 manuscript in the journal Clinical Toxicology Schep suggested Alexander's wine was spiked with " Veratrum album ", and that this would produce poisoning symptoms that match the course of events described in the " Alexander Romance " . " Veratrum album " poisoning can have a prolonged course and it was suggested that if Alexander was poisoned, " Veratrum album " offers the most plausible cause.
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In a 2014 manuscript in the journal Clinical Toxicology Schep suggested Alexander's wine was spiked with " Veratrum album ", and that this would produce poisoning symptoms that match the course of events described in the " Alexander Romance " . " Veratrum album " poisoning can have a prolonged course and it was suggested that if Alexander was poisoned, " Veratrum album " offers the most plausible cause.
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