title: The ethnopharmacology and toxicology of Urginea sanguinea in the Pretoria area.
abstract: A water extract of the bulb of the plant Urginea sanguinea Schinz = (Urginea burkei Bak) (Liliaceae) is used by the black people mainly as a 'blood purifier'. Patients admitted at the Ga-Rankuwa Hospital with Urginea sanguinea poisoning had clinical symptoms effecting any of the following systems: GIT, urinary, CNS or the splanchnic.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Medunsa, South Africa.
authors.forename: G N
authors.initials: GN
authors.lastname: Foukaridis
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Osuch
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Mathibe
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Tsipa
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002490:Central Nervous System / Q000187:drug effects; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D016488:Medicine, African Traditional; D010936:Plant Extracts / Q000494:pharmacology / Q000633:toxicity*; D013019:South Africa; D014554:Urination / Q000187:drug effects
chemical_list: D010936:Plant Extracts