Anamirta cocculoid ( lat. Anamirta cocculus ) is a plant of the Lunosemyanik family, a species of the Anamirta genus, native to India , Sri Lanka and the islands of Southeast Asia .
| Anamirta cocculoid |
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| The kingdom : | Green plants |
| Over Order : | Ranunculanae Takht. ex Reveal , 1993 |
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Anamirta cocculus ( L. ) Wight & Arn. |
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Anamirta cocculoid.
Botanical illustration from the book
Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen , 1887
This is a large evergreen liana with a woody trunk , up to 15 cm in diameter. Leaves are another large leathery petioled broadly oval. The flowers are small inconspicuous, collected in large multi-flower panicles. Fruits are drupes, ripening 200–300 pieces in each broom. Seed single, kidney-curved, with oily endosperm .
Medicinal raw materials are ripened dried drupes. They have a spherical-reniform shape, on the concave side with a groove, wrinkled, dark gray, with a diameter of 0.6-1 cm. Interflute is thin and fragile, beneath it is a light brown stone. The taste is nasty and bitter.
Dried drupe contains, in an amount of up to 1.5%, picrotoxin - a strong stimulator of the central nervous system, which is a mixture of picrotoxin and picrotin . These are unscented sesquiterpene lactones , very bitter in taste , soluble in hot water.
Picrotoxin is used as an antidote for barbiturate poisoning. It excites the respiratory center , increases blood pressure , slows the pulse . Increasing the dose (over 6 mg) causes convulsions due to muscle spasm .
In the homeland of the plant, its fruits are used as a poison for fish.
- ↑ About the conditionality of specifying the class of dicotyledons as a higher taxon for the group of plants described in this article, see the section “APG Systems” of the article “Dicotyledons” .
- Muravyova D. A. Tropical and subtropical medicinal plants. - M .: Medicine, 1983. - 336 p., With il.
