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To the Editor: Recently, a patient presented to our emergency department with severe poisoning after ingesting an aconite-containing tea with therapeutic intent. Her course highlights the potentially great danger of ingesting such a preparation. The patient, a 66-year-old woman without known cardiac disease, obtained the herb for treatment of her osteoarthritis from a local herbalist, who instructed her to prepare it by making a tea. Approximately 90 minutes after ingestion of the tea, facial and extremity paresthesias developed, after which nausea, generalized weakness, and chest pressure rapidly developed. On arrival at our emergency department, she was found to have a . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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