Genus of poisonous plants of temperate regions of northern hemisphere with a vaulted and enlarged petal.
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From the root of Aconitum Napellus are prepared a liniment and a tincture.
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Other related alkaloids are lycaconitine and myoctonine which occur in wolfsbane, Aconitum lycoctonum.
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Aconitum lycoctonum, wolfsbane, is a yellow-flowered species common on the Alps of Switzerland.
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It is the Aconitum of medicine, the Monk's-hood or Wolf's-bane' of our ancestors.
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Aconitum palmatum yields another of the celebrated bikh poisons.
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They put hereinto Eleoselinum, Aconitum, frondes populeas, & Soote.
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Aconitum Napellus, common monkshood, is a doubtful native of Britain, and is of therapeutic and toxicological importance.
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The roots of Aconitum ferox supply the famous Indian (Nepal) poison called bikh, bish or nabee.
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But of the very few flowers in my garden at the moment the best is the monkshood Aconitum carmichaelii.
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The root of Aconitum luridum, of the Himalayas, is said to be as virulent as that of A. ferox or A. Napellus.
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Pseudaconitine, obtained from Aconitum ferox, gives on hydrolysis acetic acid and veratrylpseudaconine, the latter of which suffers further hydrolysis to veratric acid and pseudaconine.