Colchicine
[Generic]: colchicum autumnale l.
[Category]: Liliaceae colchicine is
[Origin]: Europe and the Mediterranean coast of China since the 1970s the seeds and bulbs from abroad, in Beijing, Lushan, Kunming and other places to try to grow, has achieved gratifying results. Since the development of bio-engineering sciences, the increasing requirements of colchicine, everywhere, to expand acreage.
[Character]: perennial bulb flower, bulb oval, dark brown skin. Stems very short, most of the underground. Leaves lanceolate, about 30cm. Flowering from August to October. Ting 1-4 flowers per flowering, bud spindle-shaped, funnel-shaped when open, light pink (or purple), a diameter of about 7-8cm. Stamens shorter than the pistil, anthers yellow. Capsule, seeds many, irregular, spherical, brown.
[Cultivation]: hi humid and rainy in winter, cold-resistant, Xia Jiyi hot, dry environment, and loose well-drained fertile sandy loam. Therefore, appropriate _select_ion of planting Gaozao flat terrain, should be strictly disinfected before planting to prevent worm disease, blight and rot disease. If you find soil insect grubs, cutworms, etc., can be used for ditch spraying 50% Phoxim can also be culled sooner or later, or with artificial bait trap. The fall rainy season, susceptible to fungal attack anther, bulbs perishable, it is timely to take measures and prevention. Winter, dig bulbs should be placed in indoor storage of winter before planting next year. Planting, the spacing is generally 15 × 15 cm, full of nutrients and its light, can only grow well. Can also reproduce by seed and the ball boy, mulch should not be too deep, can be 1.5 to 2 cm thick. Relative lack of colchicine mother bulbs, the bulbs are expensive imports. To speed up the bulbs multiply, spread the mellow soil on the line to increase the soil depth to the proliferation of the number of small bulbs, planting 2 to 3 consecutive years, the number of bulbs that have multiplied.
[Application]:
Nineteenth century began to apply colchicine treatment of sciatica and arthritis, and later found that it breast cancer, cervical cancer, acute lymphoblastic leukemia have a certain effect. In addition, colchicine (extract from the corms colchicine), can induce chromosome doubling of haploid plants (doubling the concentration of about 0.1 to 1%) form a polyploid, the cultivation of new varieties of flowers and crops to improve crop yields has extremely important role.
Drug Name: Prairie saffron, colchicine
Toxicity: 5
Region: Eurasia
Type: All parts toxic, especially bulbs
Symptoms: burning throat, diarrhea, cardiovascular collapse, and the crazy language, sensory disturbances, convulsions, muscle weakness, difficulty breathing, and even arsenic poisoning are similar, 50% of poisoning deaths
On_set_ time of 2-6 hours, death occurs within 2-3 days, keep a clear poisoning to death
Detoxification: activated carbon treatment, gastric lavage
Note: The medicinal; similar with garlic; soluble in milk, that milk can not be diluted; goats can be immune
Recommendation: In China the growth of this plant, but with the common saffron is different; here _insert_ one way, saffron is not taking lightly, even though it is a kind of herbal tea, and is the blood of a drug, but women terms, in the case do not understand taking saffron more than likely to cause menstruation, vaginal bleeding or miscarriage (animals in the musk fragrance is similar), please be careful; for people who do not understand the knowledge of plants, use caution herbal tea and incense oils , once symptoms appear, please stop and help, because many toxic plants is the incubation period; however, drinks on the market and the essential oils of plants rarely mention dangerous, please be careful.
Daffodil bulbs in the autumn and there are a variety of highly toxic alkaloids, mainly Lycorine, snowdrop amine base and colchicine (also known as colchicine), etc., 6 mg of oral colchicine can cause death. Currently, colchicine is mainly used in clinical breast cancer, lung cancer, stomach cancer, skin cancer and the treatment of chronic myeloid leukemia, but can also be used to relieve acute attacks of gout. Colchicine's toxic side effects, common symptoms of acute poisoning after severe abdominal pain, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, severe cases can cause paralysis of respiratory center death. Chronic toxicity mainly for the direct inhibition of bone marrow, can lead to agranulocytosis, aplastic anemia. China's common folk flowers and bulbs colchicine treatment of sciatica and arthritis, but the dose is difficult to grasp, it is not uncommon to take the drug poisoning, it should strengthen publicity and education, the prevention of incorrect use, abuse. Colchicine in the human body as metabolic hydrolysis rapidly excreted quickly, so as long as the proper first aid measures, can quickly relieve the symptoms of acute poisoning.
[Whisper]: colchicine (9 / 11 the birth of flowers)
Florid: medicine (good medicine)
Colchicine for the treatment of gout, rheumatism very effective, but high intake of life-threatening Oh! This is probably the so-called "bitter medicine" of the representation of flowers, right? Therefore, colchicine is the language of flowers - medicine.
This flower is born by the blessing of people very noisy, so that obviously telling the truth, but the tendency of people do not want to hear. Because people often avoid a bitter thing, whether it is more than good medicine. So, talk to master time, place and object three elements, it will not make mistakes Oh! |
