THEVETIA.
By Timothy F. Allen тАФ The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica
Thevetia nereifolia, Juss. (Cerbera thevetia, Linn.)
Natural order , Apocynace├ж.
Common names , Ahovai-baum (of the Antilles).
Authority.
Dr. John Balfour, Edin. Med. Journ., 1856, p. 1094, effects of eating some seeds in two boys, aged eight years and six years and a half.
- A tendency to sleep, disturbed every three to five minutes by irritation in the throat, and the discharge of a mouthful of frothy mucus with a sort op gulp; this action was very peculiar, I have never seen anything like it before; then the child would lie down and close his eyes until again disturbed.
- Vomiting.
- Bowels of both moved twice or thrice.
- Pulse of the older, 60; of the younger, 70.