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Conium maculatum
Plante européenne hautement toxique historiquement utilisée pour exécuter Socrate; doses pharmaceutiques minimes utilisées historiquement pour les douleurs nerveuses.
Conium maculatum (poison hemlock) is a highly toxic plant historically used in minute pharmaceutical doses for neuralgia and as a sedative, but its use is now obsolete due to extreme danger. The primary alkaloids coniine and gamma-coniceine act as nicotinic acetylcholine receptor antagonists, causing neuromuscular paralysis and respiratory failure. Modern evidence is limited to case reports of poisoning, with no safe therapeutic application.
Coniine and gamma-coniceine are piperidine alkaloids that competitively block nicotinic acetylcholine receptors at the neuromuscular junction, preventing depolarization and leading to flaccid paralysis. They also exhibit central nervous system depressant effects via similar receptor antagonism in the brain. The onset of toxicity is rapid, with symptoms including salivation, mydriasis, ataxia, and ascending paralysis culminating in respiratory arrest.
Plante européenne hautement toxique historiquement utilisée pour exécuter Socrate; doses pharmaceutiques minimes utilisées historiquement pour les douleurs nerveuses.
Conium maculatum (poison hemlock) is a highly toxic plant historically used in minute pharmaceutical doses for neuralgia and as a sedative, but its use is now obsolete due to extreme danger. The primary alkaloids coniine and gamma-coniceine act as nicotinic acetylcholine receptor antagonists, causing neuromuscular paralysis and respiratory failure. Modern evidence is limited to case reports of poisoning, with no safe therapeutic application.
Coniine and gamma-coniceine are piperidine alkaloids that competitively block nicotinic acetylcholine receptors at the neuromuscular junction, preventing depolarization and leading to flaccid paralysis. They also exhibit central nervous system depressant effects via similar receptor antagonism in the brain. The onset of toxicity is rapid, with symptoms including salivation, mydriasis, ataxia, and ascending paralysis culminating in respiratory arrest.