Authors :
N. Parthi*, and G.M. Natarajan
Author Address :
*126, Santry close, Dublin 9, Ireland, **PG and Research Department of Zoology, Government Arts College, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India
Abstract :
Cleistanthus collinus poisoning is a common suicidal poison used in rural southern India. It is commonly found deciduous dry hilly forests of South India, Sri Lanka and Malaysia. All parts of the plant are reported to be toxic and used as suicidal, homicidal, cattle and fish poison and for inducing criminal abortion. The leaves are consumed either by chewing or by making a decoction of the leaves. As a result of elevated glycogenolysis and glycolysis probably the pyruvate and lactate might have been accumulated. Thus suicidal plant extract administration seems to result in the enhanced utilization of glucose and glycogen, though glycolysis and glycogenolysis with lowered oxidative metabolism in the liver tissue.
Keywords :
Rat, Cleistanthus collinus, liver, pyruvate, lactate, suicidal, homicidal, glucose, glycogen cattle and fish poison