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Tanghinia

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Tanghinia Venenifera · Madagascar Ordeal Poison · "The Madagascar Ordeal Poison"

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🎯 A powerful toxic agent that induces intense vomiting, profound muscular weakness, and paralysis.

📖 Clarke writes:

Tanghinia venenifera. N. O. Apocynaceae. Trituration of the seed.

👤 Characteristics

Sphere of Action & Core States

•Acts as a powerful poison causing general weakness

•Produces complete paralysis

•Death preceded by spasmodic movements of fingers and toes

•Causes intense and distressing vomiting

•Symptoms observed on persons undergoing the ordeal

Key Characteristics & Guiding Symptoms

•Numbness is a common symptom

•Numbness of the hands

•Vomiting accompanied by anxiety and weakness

•Retention of the seed in the stomach leads to rapid death

•Vomiting of the seed is associated with survival

Botanical & Source Information

•Tanghinia (the Tanghin or Tanquen of Madagascar) is the only representative of its genus of the Apocynaceae

•Fruit is ellipsoid, between two and three inches long

•Fruit has a smooth, purplish skin tinged with green

•Fruit contains a hard stone surrounded by a thick fibrous flesh

•The seed is the part used as an ordeal

⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See

Intense, distressing, and repeated vomiting of stomach contents, bile, and mucus.

Clarke

Profound general weakness leading to complete paralysis and inability to support one's own weight.

Clarke

Numbness of the whole body, with a specific and marked numbness of the hands.

Clarke

Spasmodic movements of the fingers and toes occurring shortly before death.

Clarke

Anxiety accompanying the intense vomiting.

Clarke

Stupor where the patient lies as if asleep, answering drowsily when roused.

Clarke

Giddiness and staggering gait when attempting to walk.

Clarke

Numb tingling sensation in the mouth and throat.

Clarke

Urgent purging and urination as a sign of severe systemic distress.

Clarke

Consciousness often remains until the end, though delirium may occasionally occur.

Clarke

🩺 Systems & Indications

🧠Mind

Consider for states of profound stupor, anxiety, or altered consciousness following toxic exposure.

Conscious to the last, without delirium.

Delirium occasionally occurs.

Stupor.

Lies as if asleep, and when roused answers like a drowsy man and then relapses into former condition.

Anxiety with the vomiting.

📚 Sources & References

✓ Clarke's Dictionary↗✓ Allen's Encyclopedia↗Boericke's Materia MedicaHering's Guiding SymptomsHahnemann's Materia Medica PuraKent's Materia MedicaPhatak's Concise MM

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