After eating, it will cause arrhythmia, nausea, vomiting, blurred vision, numbness and serious death. It mainly grows in wet places, leaves are like celery leaves, and it blooms in summer. The whole plant is poisonous and accompanied by stench.
Lycoris radiata: The roots of Lycoris radiata look like the small root garlic we usually eat. The small root garlic is safe and edible, but Lycoris radiata can't be eaten. Its bulb contains many alkaloids, such as lycorine, pseudolycorine, and polynarcissin. Poisoning may be caused by mistake, ranging from vomiting and diarrhea to paralysis of the central nervous system and life-threatening.
Herba Clerodendranthi: Herba Clerodendranthi is also called Gelsemium, Rotten Intestines, Bitter Kiss, Bitter Medicine, Anesthesia Rattan, Pig Ginseng, etc. Some people will mistake it for honeysuckle.
The whole plant of Herba Clerodendranthi is toxic, and the content of root toxin is the highest. The main component is gelsemine, of which the content of gelsemine is the highest, and gelsemine is the most toxic, which belongs to a neurotoxin. After eating, dizziness, severe pain in throat and abdomen, foaming at the mouth, dilated pupils, muscle weakness, jaw loss and other conditions will occur, and serious heart and respiratory failure will lead to death.
Xanthium sibiricum: Raw Xanthium sibiricum is toxic to a certain extent. After eating it, it can cause local itching, redness, dizziness, nausea, vomiting and cough, which can seriously cause digestive system damage, respiratory system damage, urinary system damage and nervous system damage, especially liver and kidney damage, which can lead to death.
However, after processing, it can reduce toxicity and become a Chinese herbal medicine.
Datura stramonium: The whole plant of Datura stramonium is toxic, and the seeds are the most toxic. Toxic substances are scopolamine, scopolamine and atropine, etc., and the clinical manifestations of atropine poisoning will occur if taken in excess. Can cause auditory hallucinations, hallucinations, convulsions, irritability, serious will also inhibit the nerve center, blood pressure drop, respiratory weakness, and finally respiratory failure and death.
Children can be poisoned or even die if they eat 3-8 Datura seeds and 3-30 seeds for adults.
Poisonous Lettuce: Poisonous Lettuce is also called thorn lettuce, which is very similar to the lettuce we usually eat, but it has a row of spikes on its back, which is an alien invasive poisonous and harmful plant. This kind of plant has strong survivability, and it can survive in roadside, railway, farmland, orchard, pasture, sand and other environments.
The whole plant of poisonous lettuce is poisonous, and contains anesthetic ingredients. Especially when flowering, the milk of the plant contains a substance called "mountain lettuce paste", which has the effect of weak opiate, but it will not cause digestive disorder and addiction. Ordinary dose is easy to cause drowsiness, while too much will cause anxiety. If it is too much, it will lead to cardiac paralysis and death.
These wild vegetables mentioned above are "poisonous weeds", so don't eat them.
Review experts (in no particular order):
Xue Qingxin registered dietitian
Director of Zhongkai Kexin Food and Health Information Exchange Center