Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Wonderful Plants
Type:
Remedy
Chapter:
665.25.12
665.25.12 Allamanda cathartica
English: Yellow Bell; Golden Trumpet; Buttercup Flower
Use: arrow poison; fruit, bitter, sweet and edible when ripe.
Content: allamandin, a toxic iridoid lactone.
Source: Dr. Frederich Allamanda (1735-1803), a Swiss botanist.
Body
General: cathartic, antibacterial, anticancer.
Skin: rashes, itch, blisters.
