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Why would you take Magnesia, Stimulant, and Strong Coffee after you take an emetic for this berry poisoning?
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If an adult takes anywhere from 3-6 berries from a Deadly Nightshade plant or known by some as a Belladonna plant or Atropa Belladonna, you get deathly ill and some die.
On a site I found it said you should seek medical care but it said start taking an emetic immediately. An emetic is something that causes vomiting. It said warm vinegar or mustard and water will do it and perhaps a stomach pump would need to be done. Then it said after vomiting a person should be administered Magnesia, a stimulant and strong coffee.
What exactly is magnesia and what does it do and how is it made? What would be a stimulant? Wouldn't strong coffee be a stimulant and wouldn't strong coffee upset a stomach that had just been emptied by vomiting?
Would calabar beans be effective in a deadly nightshade berry poisoning?
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- bravozuluLv 78 years agoFavorite Answer
Two of the main toxins are atropine and scopolamine. They are both anticholinergic or block acetylcholine.
"Anticholinergics generally have antisialagogue effects (decreasing saliva production), and most have at least some sedative effect, both being advantageous in surgical procedures.[2]"
They probably make you sleepy. "Magnesia" is a common name for the magnesium in milk of magnesia. It is Mg(OH)2 and it is used as an antacid. Atropine and scopolamine are both alkaloids. Those are classes of compounds like cocaine that can be converted into a salt if you add acid. The antacid probably keeps it out of solution better or makes it harder for the alkaloids to dissolve in the stomach.
It is a deliriant. I have had the unfortunate experience with one when I was poisoned so you might not want to make the person do much rational thinking. Those toxins tend to make you stupid and forget what you did when you were on them.
I see that the calabar bean is toxic and the antidote is atropine. That might not mean that the reverse is true but it sounds likely. Aconitum is much more widespread and atropine is the antidote for that poison by the way. It is kind of confusing. Atropine speeds up the heart and why it is dangerous but it requires a stimulant as an antidote. That makes me think that atropine is used to speed up heart rate for toxins that slow it down. I am starting to confuse myself.
"Physostigmine is one of only a few drugs that can be used as an antidote for anticholinergic poisoning. Nicotine also counteracts anticholinergics by activating nicotinic acetylcholine receptors. Caffeine (although an adenosine receptor antagonist) would counteract the anticholinergic symptoms by reducing sedation and increase acetylcholine activity, thereby causing alertness and arousal."