Citation

Benzeid H, Gouaz F, Touré AH, Bouatia M, Idrissi MOB, Draoui M. J. Toxicol. 2018; 2018: e4563735.

Affiliation

Laboratoire de Chimie Analytique et de Bromatologie, Faculté de Médecine et de Pharmacie, Université Mohamed V, Rabat, Morocco.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, Hindawi Publishing)

DOI

10.1155/2018/4563735

PMID

29853874

PMCID

PMC5960541

Abstract

Since they are natural, plants are wrongly considered nondangerous; therefore people used them in various contexts. Each plant is used alone or in mixture with others, where knowledge and the requirements of preparation and consumption are not mastered. Thus, intoxications due to the use of plants have become more and more frequent. The reports of intoxications made at the Antipoison Center and Pharmacovigilance of Morocco (ACPM) support this finding, since the interrogations suffered by the victims show that the use of plants is practiced irrationally, anarchically, and uncontrollably. Faced by the increase of these cases of poisoning in Morocco, it seemed necessary to investigate the nature of poisonous plants, their monographs, and the chemicals responsible for this toxicity.

Language: en