curare - generic name potent poisons produced by evaporating water extracts from certain tropical plants.These poisons have long used the natives living in South America, for poisoning arrowheads in hostilities and during the hunt.They knew the dosage required to instant death or temporary immobilization, if the opponent was needed alive.
poison curare, once in the blood, the body has a nerve.Please blocked nerve impulses, muscle paralysis.Then fails respiratory system, the skin turns blue, the liver becomes inflamed - and as a result in death.If you get the meat with a deadly potion effects of the stomach does not happen, that is, animals killed by a poisoned arrow, it can be eaten.Moreover their meat, according to natives, is more tasty and tender.
composition of this deadly poison to the Europeans for a long time remained a mystery.The mention of it caused a terrifying awe.Different tribes curare poison is obtained from various plants, and even composition.There are several types of deadly potions have different effects on the body and stored in different conditions.For example, curare - a poison from Chondrodendron tomentosum - acts very quickly.Store it in the hollow tubes from the stems.The venom of Strychnos toxifera acts slowly, similar to strychnine.It was stored in clay pots.
Chondrodendron tomentosum - vine related to the family loganiaceae and widespread in South America.Her lignified stem can reach a cross-section of 10 cm. Creeper leaves are large (up to 20 cm), sertsevidnye with easily visible veins.The upper side of the leaves is smooth, and the bottom is covered with a light nap.Flowers dioecious, small, greenish-cream, are collected in inflorescence.Fruits small (2 mm), oblong, tapering downward.
first mention of the plants found in the records of a Spanish priest d'Akunya that are made to them in 1693 in Europe, samples of venom and manufacturing techniques were brought by the French scientist Charles Marie de la Kordamenom (from the expedition to Peru).The Indians, of course, not the given curare.Yad scientists have come to steal and spy, as the natives do it.
leaves, roots and stems Chondrodendron tomentosum crushed, pour water and cooked over medium heat for some time, until the mixture thickened.At the same time it is constantly agitated.Sometimes blood is poisonous brew added frogs or other animals.Less severe poison had a light color, it was used for hunting.A more effective and deadly poison was thick with the smell of sticky resin.It was used against the enemy, treating the thorns, which are then blown out of the tubes.Only the shaman of the tribe had the right to make curare, a poison, presumed death for disobedience.
active substance, curare poison is a D-tubocurarine - an active alkaloid.When used in microdoses, it is able to exert a therapeutic effect.This substance is used in the treatment of dropsy, kidney stones, madness, fever, and others. You can use it externally in case of severe injuries in the form of compresses.Indian shamans have long known about it, and skillfully used and continue to use curare, a poison.
