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Cats are even more sensitive to allium toxin than dogs and are so sensitive that even 5 grams per kilogram of body weight will cause severe symptoms. Cats would not normally eat onions, but in ...
Its fruit is a dry follicle similar to the Chinese star anise, but toxic, smaller and with a weaker odour, reputed to be more similar to the aroma of cardamom than to that of anise. Due to its poisonous nature, its seeds have been used as a fish poison as well as a natural agricultural pesticide and to repel animals from digging the grounds of ...
Colchicine poisoning has been compared to arsenic poisoning; symptoms typically start two to five hours after a toxic dose has been ingested but may take up to 24 hours to appear, and include burning in the mouth and throat, fever, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain, and kidney failure. Onset of multiple-system organ failure may occur within 24 ...
The best-known species is Illicium verum, commonly known as star anise. The order belongs to the group of basal angiosperms, the ANA grade (Amborellales, Nymphaeales, and Austrobaileyales), which diverged earlier from the remaining flowering plants. Austrobaileyales is sister to all remaining extant angiosperms outside the ANA grade. [5] [6] [7]
verum, the common star anise, is used to flavor food and liquor. Its fruit is a traditional Chinese medicine called bājiǎo huíxiāng ( 八角茴香 ), which is used to treat abdominal pain and vomiting.
Residents of Sandy Beach Trailer Park in Akron, Ohio, are on high alert after more than 50 bowls of anti-freeze aimed at poisoning the community cats were found scattered throughout the mobile ...
Lentigo in cats is a common dermatological condition characterized by the presence of small, flat, brownish spots on the skin — particularly around the lips, nose, and eyelid margins. Unlike in ...
Star anise refers to Illicium verum Chinese star anise, and the spice derived from it. It can also refer to related poisonous plants: Illicium anisatum, Japanese star anise, similar in appearance to Illicium verum; Illicium floridanum, a shrub of the southeastern United States; Illicium parviflorum, swamp star anise, of the southeastern United ...