Mandala of the solanaceous genus Mandala, alias mandala, manda, manza, manda, drunken flower, dog walnut, yangjin flower, maple solanum flower, peach blossom, sheep flower, trumpet flower, mountain eggplant and so on. Native to the tropical and subtropical regions of Asia, it is now distributed in the fields, ditches, road edges, river banks, hillsides and other places throughout the country.
Herbaceous or semi-shrub-shaped, 0.5 to 1.5 m tall, nearly smooth or in the tender parts of the body is covered with short soft hairs. The stem is stout, cylindrical, pale green or purple, and the lower part is lignified. The leaves are broadly ovate, tapering at the apex, asymmetrically wedge-shaped at the base, with irregular wavy shallow lobes, sharply pointed at the apex of the lobes, and sometimes wavy teeth, with 3 to 5 lateral veins on each side, reaching the tip of the lobe, 8 to 17 cm long and 4 to 12 cm wide; The petiole is 3 to 5 cm long. The flowers are borne solitaryly between branches or leaf axillaries, upright, with short stems; Calyx barrel-shaped, 4 to 5 cm long, the barrel has 5 angular angles, slightly inverted between the two edges, the base is slightly expanded, the top is tightly enclosed around the corolla tube, 5 shallow lobes, lobes are triangular, the post-flowering is broken from the near base, and the remaining part increases with the fruit and folds outward; Corolla funnel-shaped, the lower part with green, the upper part of white, yellow, pink or lilac, etc., the eaves 5 shallow lobes, the lobes have a short pointed head, 6 to 10 cm long, the diameter of the eaves 3 to 5 cm; The stamens do not protrude from the corolla, the filaments are about 3 cm long and the anthers are about 4 mm long; The ovary is densely haired with soft needle hairs, and the flower column is about 6 cm long. The capsules are erect, ovate, 3 to 4.5 cm long and 2–4 cm in diameter, with hard needles or sometimes spineless but nearly smooth surfaces, pale yellowish upon ripening, and regular 4 lobes. The seeds are ovate, slightly flattened, about 4 mm long, and black. The flowering period is from June to October, and the fruit period is from July to November.
The whole mandala plant is poisonous, the seed is the most toxic, followed by young leaves, and fresh leaves and flowers are again. In ancient times, mandala was the main ingredient of Monghan medicine, and the main ingredient of the legendary hemp boiling powder was also mandala! The main components of its toxicity are butterbocarbocline, atropine and stextrane.
The main anesthetic component is steyrane.
The leaves and seeds of the mandala have a sweet taste, which is very easy to be mistakenly eaten, and the flesh of the flowers is thick, and it is difficult for ordinary people to resist the temptation to use it to make soup! Children can be poisoned after taking 3 to 8 seeds.
After eating a certain amount of leaves and flowers, symptoms of poisoning will also occur, generally 0.5 to 2 hours after oral administration, it is completely absorbed by the oral cavity and gastric mucosa and symptoms of poisoning occur. Symptoms generally appear 0.5 to 2 hours after eating, and the early symptoms are dry mouth, difficulty swallowing, hoarseness, rapid pulse, mydriasis, dry skin flushing, fever, etc.
Psychiatric symptoms such as delirium, hallucinations, agitation, convulsions, and impaired consciousness may occur 2 to 6 hours after eating.
In severe cases, lethargy occurs within 12 to 24 hours, with shallow and slow breathing, decreased blood pressure, and even critical signs of shock, coma, and respiratory paralysis.
In the wild, after accidentally eating a mandala poisoning, it is almost impossible to rescue, all you can do is induce vomiting, artificial respiration, water to cool the patient and take it to the hospital as soon as possible!
Note: Mandala plants are mostly poisonous! The main plants of the domestic distribution of mandala are woody mandalas: hairy mandalas, golden flowers and so on! The flowers of the mandala come in many colors, and they are as colorful as the trumpet flowers of the trumpet! Don't pick large trumpet flowers easily to eat!
Remember: don't eat vines, flowers, fungi and wild fruits, although you can eat a lot, but there are also many poisonous ones! If you don't know edible plants, keep in mind the plant poison testing procedures and don't be in a hurry.
Before doing the plant poison testing program, there is a small experience: beautiful flowers and plants are very beautiful, but not necessarily able to eat, find insects or animals to bite the plant poison test success rate is very high, if it is beautiful but no insects and animals are interested in it, you can use your brain to think, why animals dare not eat it?