INTRODUCTION
This is also known as Indian liquorice or rati. The plant is found all over the Indian though all its part are poisonous the seed are commonly used as poison.
They are tasteless odourless over red in colour with the black spot on one pole.
The active principal is abrin, resembles those of viperine snake bite.
Sign and symptoms -
Seeds are said and raw raw after cooking they are not poisonous
Use -
Such a method is used to poison cattle by means of sui.
Method -
Mixing powder with opium onion dhatura or spirit all spirit all or spirit all water to make into a paste and paste Shaped into small sharp needled.
which are allowed to Harden by drying in the sun.
Human poisoning is characterized by the local painful swelling ecchymosis, followed by necrosis.
when the ingested there is nausea vomiting abdominal pain diarrhoea and collapse.
Fatal dose and fatal period -
The fatal dose is 1-2 seeds by mouth or 90 to 120 MG antim by injection
the fatal period is 3 to 5 days
Treatment -
Injection of anti-abrin
Postmortem appearances-
The united site is zwolle, inflamed and necrosed.
Medicolegal aspects-
Sui are used to kill battle either to produce cheap bides, powered seed to produce conjectivitis.
The use of abrus as an arora poison is known.
By:- AKSHAY KEWAT
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