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What is a conium?

What is a conium? Here are some definitions.

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  1. (botany) Any of the species in the genus Conium of poisonous perennial herbaceous flowering plants.
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Conium owes its active properties to a volatile liquid alkaloid, coniine, united with a crystalline alkaloid, Conhydrine.
In pharmacy, the fresh and dried leaf of the wild herb conium maculatum, or spotted hemlock.
There are of course hundreds of other indications for Conium mac found in the various materia medica.
Bromide of potassium and hydrate of chloral in drachm doses should be given in connection with conium.
The seeds, leaves, and root of the conium maculatum are all poisonous.
Compounded of conium and Selinum, from its resemblance to these genera.

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