BOTANICAL: Conium maculatum (LINN.)
FAMILY: N.O. Umbelliferae
DESCRIPTION: Tall plant with white flowers. It can grow from 2 to 4 feet high. It is beautiful to look at but deadly to intake.
HISTORY: Hemlock has been used for ages and was even given to criminals or condemned men.
MEDICAL USES: It can be used as a sedative or paralyzer. When cooked, it looses it poisonous affect.
Keats, in the opening lines of his poem, describes to us the feeling of numbness and drowsiness that has dulled his senses and made him forget all that's around him except the melodious cry of the Nightingale.
*Socrates was charged with corrupting the youth and Impiety in 399 B.C. and found guilty. His sentence was death by poison--Hemlock.
FAMILY: N.O. Umbelliferae
DESCRIPTION: Tall plant with white flowers. It can grow from 2 to 4 feet high. It is beautiful to look at but deadly to intake.
HISTORY: Hemlock has been used for ages and was even given to criminals or condemned men.
MEDICAL USES: It can be used as a sedative or paralyzer. When cooked, it looses it poisonous affect.
Keats, in the opening lines of his poem, describes to us the feeling of numbness and drowsiness that has dulled his senses and made him forget all that's around him except the melodious cry of the Nightingale.
*Socrates was charged with corrupting the youth and Impiety in 399 B.C. and found guilty. His sentence was death by poison--Hemlock.