Belen is a poisonous plant. Poisoning by poisonous plants. Bleached black

Poisoning by poisonous plants happens quite often, as many of them have an attractive appearance and at first glance seem completely not dangerous. Those people who are engaged in collecting herbs should be very careful and observe all precautions. It is important for them to know where the poisonous plants grow and how they look. It is equally important to be able to provide first aid to the poisoned person. Most poisonous plants are used in medicine. One of them is bleached. Poisonous plant 30-60 cm high. It belongs to the Nightshade family. In the people of whiteness (see the photo below) has other names: mad bitch, dentist, night blindness, dumbbell, dur-grass, rabid, stupid, short. The Latin name of the plant Hyoscyam us niger L. In some literature the English name of the plant is used - Henbane, which means "killer of chickens".

Description

Belem is a poisonous plant that has a not very pleasant, intoxicating aroma. From above it is all covered with sticky hairs. The root of the plant is vertical, branched. The stem is straight. In plants that do not have more than a year, only a basal rosette of leaves of large size, ovoid, is developed. In the second year of life, the stem begins to develop with stems, large-toothed, ovate-shaped leaves. The bleached flower is slightly irregular in shape, cream colored with purple veins. It is a tubular-campanulate cup with 5 prongs. Corolla of flower is funnel-shaped, stamens, as a rule, 5. Pestle with upper ovary and capitate stigma. Belen is a poisonous plant blooming in the summer (June-August) time. Its fruit is a water-lily bicarbonated capsule. Seed one plant has enough, they are small, brown-gray hue.

Spread

The poisonous plant of Belen black grows mainly in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, the Baltics, Central Asia. It is often found in Africa, India, China. Belen is a poisonous plant that is considered a weed. It grows on vacant lots, pebbles, garbage piles, not far from houses, in gardens and orchards. In Crimea you can meet on the outskirts of vineyards. Growing henbane in small groups or absent-mindedly, thickets do not form. Recently, in the Voronezh and Novosibirsk regions was introduced into an industrial group.

Toxicity and chemical composition

Any part of bleached is poisonous. The plant contains poisonous alkaloids, bitter glycoside, fatty oils, atropine groups, resins. The maximum content of poisons during the flowering period. Atropine, contained in bleached, has a neurotoxic and psychotropic effect. For adults, the lethal dose is 100 mg of the substance, children need 10 mg. Atropine is absorbed very quickly through the skin. The substance is excreted in the urine for 14 hours. Signs of bleach poisoning are: excessive excitement, dilated pupils, reddening of the facial skin, hallucinations, dizziness, nonsense.

Application of bleached in medicine

Despite the fact that henbane is a poisonous plant, it is often used to make medicines. Means with bleach have a calming, analgesic and anti-spasmic effect on the human body. Oil from the leaves of the plant is used for grits with bruises, rheumatism and gout. Extract of bleached is used for dysmenorrhea, spasms of cervical muscles, vaginism. In folk medicine bleach is used to treat headaches, insomnia, melancholy, bronchitis, gastritis, with convulsions and bronchial asthma. Small doses of drugs have therapeutic effect, large doses are poison. Contraindications to the use of funds containing bleach: pregnancy, lactation, individual intolerance. Of the drugs that contain bleach (photo below), the most famous are: "Asthmatic" and "Asthmatol", "Kellatrin", "Efatin", "Aeron".

Application of bleb in other areas

A water extract of bleached hair stains the hair to give it a bronze shade. The evaporated juice of the plant is used in the preparation of silvery-white paint. Seed oil is used in Egypt for burning. Used in the production of bleached and in agriculture. Powder plants, decoctions, infusions are used to kill aphids, zlatoguzki, spider mite, cabbage moths, herbivorous bugs. It is often enough to use bleached black in cosmetology. It is added to creams from freckles and wrinkles, in shampoos and conditioners for strengthening hair.

How to prepare bleached

That the plant can be used all year round, it must be learned to properly store. The collected bleached is dried in a well-ventilated attic. Leaves spread thin (no more than 2 cm) layer, from time to time inverted. If there is an electric dryer, then the plant is dried at 40-45 degrees. At the same time, the yield of finished raw materials will not exceed 18%. When collecting and rearranging plants, in order to avoid poisoning, it is necessary to protect the skin of hands with gloves. If they are not, then after work the hands are washed several times with soap.

Folk recipes from bleached

With epilepsy, internal pain, rheumatism or radiculitis, an alcoholic infusion of bleached is very useful. For its preparation, 30 g of dry raw material is poured with a glass of alcohol (vodka, moonshine). Insist 3-4 days in a container of dark glass or in a place inaccessible to the sun . Ready infusion filter. Leaves squeeze and discard. Take the liquid three times a day for 1-2 drops, diluted in 10 ml of water. The treatment is done 20 minutes before the main meal.

The following infusion is recommended for use in gastrointestinal pain. Take a teaspoon of dry ground mass and steam 500 ml of boiling water. Wrap and insist about 50 minutes. After filtering, the leaves are discarded. Take as an anesthetic directly for pain three times a day for 10 ml.

With gout, neuralgia, rheumatic pain, fresh bleached leaves are soaked in ammonia (1: 1). After an hour, add vegetable oil (1: 5). The resulting means rub the sore spots. When inflammation of the oral cavity it is useful to smoke the leaves of bleached as a cigar, trying to stop the healing smoke in your mouth. With toothache it is recommended to inhale the smoke from burning bleach seed.