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Aconite
Aconite meaning
The herb wolfsbane, or monkshood; any plant of the genus Aconitum, all the species of which are poisonous. | An extract or tincture obtained from Aconitum napellus, used as a poison and medicinally.
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As a well-known poison from ancient times, aconite is well-suited for historical fiction.
As he grew wealthier from the sales of his aconite ointment, he bought himself a coal-black coach and six snow-white horses to draw it.
As the veterinary historian John Blaisdell has noted, symptoms of aconite poisoning in humans bear some passing similarity to those of rabies: frothy saliva, impaired vision, vertigo, and finally a coma.
Herodorus of Heraclea and Euphorion said that when Heracles brought Cerberus up from the underworld at Heraclea, Cerberus "vomited bile" from which the aconite plant grew up.
In the TV series Dexter (Season 7), the character Hannah McKay uses aconite to poison some of her victims.
Medicinal use Plant as used in Chinese-style herbology (in Japanese) ( crude medicine Aconite has long been used in traditional Chinese medicine and Ayurveda (Hindu traditional medicine).