Poisoning by Medical Plants
ARCHIVES OF ArchiveArch Iran Med.of SID February 2020;23(2):117-127 IRANIAN http www.aimjournal.ir MEDICINE Open Systematic Review Access Poisoning by Medical Plants Mohammad Hosein Farzaei, PhD1; Zahra Bayrami, PhD2; Fatemeh Farzaei, PhD1; Ina Aneva, PhD3; Swagat Kumar Das, PhD4; Jayanta Kumar Patra, PhD5; Gitishree Das, PhD5; Mohammad Abdollahi, PhD2* 1Pharmaceutical Sciences Research Center, Health Institute, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran 2Toxicology and Diseases Group, Pharmaceutical Sciences Research Center (PSRC), The Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences (TIPS), and School of Pharmacy, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 3Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria, Bulgaria 4Department of Biotechnology, College of Engineering and Technology, BPUT, Bhubaneswar 751003, Odisha, India 5Research Institute of Biotechnology & Medical Converged Science, Dongguk University-Seoul, Goyangsi 10326, Republic of Korea Abstract Background: Herbal medications are becoming increasingly popular with the impression that they cause fewer side effects in comparison with synthetic drugs; however, they may considerably contribute to acute or chronic poisoning incidents. Poison centers receive more than 100 000 patients exposed to toxic plants. Most of these cases are inconsiderable toxicities involving pediatric ingestions of medicinal plants in low quantity. In most cases of serious poisonings, patients are adults who have either mistakenly consumed a poisonous plant as edible or ingested the plant regarding to its medicinal properties for therapy or toxic properties for illegal aims. Methods: In this article, we review the main human toxic plants causing mortality or the ones which account for emergency medical visits. Articles addressing “plant poisoning” in online databases were listed in order to establish the already reported human toxic cases.
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