Deadly Nightshade (Atropa belladonna) Nightshade contains atropine and scopolamine in its stems, leaves, berries, and roots, and causes paralysis in the involuntary muscles of the body, including the heart. Even physical contact with the leaves may cause skin irritation.
Strychnine tree (Strychnos nux-vomica)
Native to South East Asia and Australia. This tree bears small, orange-coloured fruits with highly poisonous seeds that are neurotoxic - they harm the body's nervous system, causing convulsions, paralysis, and even death.
California Poppy, Golden Poppy (Eschscholzia californica)
California poppies (Eschscholzia californica) have been used for their sedative effects.
Wolfsbane (aconitum napellus) is a wild plant, also commonly known as monkshood, conite, leopard's bane, women's bane, Devil's helmet or blue rocket. It is native to western and central Europe where it is deemed one of the most poisonous plants.
Perhaps the most famously lethal on our list is Atropa belladonna, the aptly named Deadly Nightshade. This toxic plant belongs to the same family as tomatoes, potatoes and aubergines, and can be found across Europe, including in Britain, as well as North Africa, Western Asia and some parts of the USA and Canada.
Gympie Gympie
Even the lightest touch can leave victims suffering for weeks, if not months at a time. Infamously known as the most venomous plant in Australia, contact with Gympie Gympie will cause immediate and severe burning that intensifies in just 20 to 30 minutes.
Botulinum toxin, the nerve agent commonly called botox, is best known for its miraculous effect on wrinkles. The toxin paralyses muscles in the skin so they relax.
Tetrodotoxin interferes with the transmission of signals from nerves to muscles and causes an increasing paralysis of the muscles of the body.
A. oleracea has many common names. Some names such as buzz buttons and Sichuan buttons are descriptive terms for the effervescent and numbing sensations produced when the plant's flower enters the mouth.
Gelsemium: the plant that can cause convulsions, paralysis and asphyxia.
The mimosa pudica — also known as the sleepy plant or touch-me-not — reacts dramatically when touched or shaken.
Jewelweed is an annual, meaning it lives only for one year and comes back from the seeds the next year. The seeds grow in pods, which expand in size, building up pressure – until they explode when touched. This is why they are also called touch-me-nots.
Symptoms. Small exposures to nettles can cause local symptoms such as burning, itching, redness, swelling (occasionally small blisters will form) and local numbness.
Known as Gympie-gympie in Australia and salat in Papua New Guinea, contact with this leaf can result in human death, more often extreme pain that can last for months. Stinging hairs deliver a potent neurotoxin when touched. Leaf has medicinal purposes in some PNG tribes. Scientific name is Dendrocnide moroides.
Dendrocnide moroides, commonly known in Australia as the stinging tree, stinging bush, Queensland Stinger or gympie-gympie, is a plant in the nettle family Urticaceae found in rainforest areas of Malaysia and Australia. It is notorious for its extremely painful and long-lasting sting.
Dendrocnide moroides, commonly known as the stinging tree, stinging bush, Queensland Stinger or the gympie-gympie, is notorious for an extremely painful sting that can leave victims suffering for weeks, or even months.
John's wort apparently refers to John the Baptist, as the plant blooms around the time of the feast of St. John the Baptist in late June. Historically, St. John's wort has been used for a variety of conditions, including kidney and lung ailments, insomnia, and depression, and to aid wound healing.
Oleracea has many common. names. Some names such as buzz buttons and. Sichuan buttons are descriptive terms for the. effervescent and numbing sensations produced when.
Is it safe to eat? Buzz button plant is completely safe to eat but it isn't known for being delicious. It's eaten for the sensory properties it produces: mouth tingling and numbing. The most popular part of the plant to eat are the flowers which contain the most amount of spilanthol.
temporary paralysis when waking up or falling asleep – sleep paralysis. paralysis after a serious accident or injury – a severe head injury or spinal cord (back) injury. weakness in the face, arms or legs that comes and goes – multiple sclerosis or, less commonly, myasthenia gravis or hypokalaemia periodic paralysis.
Most paralysis is due to strokes or injuries such as spinal cord injury or a broken neck. Other causes of paralysis include: Nerve diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Autoimmune diseases such as Guillain-Barre syndrome.
The golden poison frog, Phyllobates terribilis, is the most lethal. In fact, it's the most poisonous vertebrate: the poison in one frog's skin can kill 10,000 mice, between 10-20 adult humans, or two African bull elephants.
It is called the “silent killer” because it is colorless, odorless, tasteless and non- irritating. If the early signs of CO poisoning are ignored, a person may lose consciousness and be unable to escape the danger. More people die from carbon monoxide exposure than any other kind of poisoning.
1. Botulinum toxin. Scientists differ about the relative toxicities of substances, but they seem to agree that botulinum toxin, produced by anaerobic bacteria, is the most toxic substance known. Its LD50 is tiny – at most 1 nanogram per kilogram can kill a human.
Arsenic is known to be the most potent poison that has killed many lives. It has been used since ancient time and has a long and diverse history of use.