Oleander - beautiful flowers, easy to poisoning

Oleander (Nerium indicum Mill.) The oleander (family Apocynaceae), whose other name is peaches pears, flowers are planted as an ornamental tree in gardens parks, roads and gardens. Ancient times, people soak oleander leaves with alcohol to apply in addition to treatment of snakebite. In Vietnam, people in some areas also use oleander to treat scabies by pounding the leaves up directly or cooked water washing but very dangerous.

Since all the oleander tree opaque plastic so bitter and toxic hydrocyanic acid and toxic glucosid is oleandrin, neriin, neriantin. Ancient medicine has recognized highly toxic oleander. Cows, horses eating some leaves of fresh oleander poisoning. Carnivorous animals died of oleander leaf poisoning. Through testing it was found that, people who drink water with oleander leaves fall into the water or soak the roots oleander poisoning.

Fresh bark and wood of the stem or branches more toxic oleander leaves. In Corsica, France, cases of poisoning from eating spring skewer with branches of oleander and drink bottled water oleander wood button. Oleander flowers but the toxicity is lower than in other parts, but fell into the water, contaminated water. The toxin is not destroyed in parts of the oleander plant has been boiled or dried. It is also said that honey contains nectar and pollen oleander poisoning.

Oleander poisoning symptoms manifest annoyance, corruption limbs, nausea, dizziness (in small doses); bloody diarrhea, respiratory disorders, vomiting, twitching limbs, muscular heart, small circuit weakness to coma and death (high dose). Therefore, no oleander trees next to water sources such as wells, ponds, water tanks; forced or grazing under an oleander tree, do not let small children play oleander flowers for kids easy for the flower in his mouth; Oleander leaves skin treatment in any way.