एक तिजोरी और बढ़ी हुई पंखुड़ी के साथ उत्तरी गोलार्ध के समशीतोष्ण क्षेत्रों के जमानतपूर्ण पौधों का जीनस

Noun:

एकोनाइटम नेपोलस की सूखी जड़ों और पत्तों से प्राप्त होनेवाली विषैली औ‍षधि, वत्सनाभ सिंगिया, मीठा जहर,

aconitum's Usage Examples:

- Part of the flower of Aconite (Aconitum Napellus), showing two irregular horn-like petals (p) supported on grooved stalks (o).

From the root of Aconitum Napellus are prepared a liniment and a tincture.

Other related alkaloids are lycaconitine and myoctonine which occur in wolfsbane, Aconitum lycoctonum.

Pseudaconitine, obtained from Aconitum ferox, gives on hydrolysis acetic acid and veratrylpseudaconine, the latter of which suffers further hydrolysis to veratric acid and pseudaconine.

==Chemistry== The active principle of Aconitum Napellus is the alkaloid aconitine, first examined by P. L.

The root of Aconitum luridum, of the Himalayas, is said to be as virulent as that of A.

Aconitum palmatum yields another of the celebrated bikh poisons.

The roots of Aconitum ferox supply the famous Indian (Nepal) poison called bikh, bish or nabee.

Aconitum Napellus, common monkshood, is a doubtful native of Britain, and is of therapeutic and toxicological importance.

ACONITE (Aconitum), a genus of plants belonging to the natural order Ranunculaceae, the buttercup family, commonly known as.

aconitum's Meaning':

genus of poisonous plants of temperate regions of northern hemisphere with a vaulted and enlarged petal