ecballium การใช้

The caterpillars feed on red bryony ( " Bryonia dioica " ) and probably also squirting cucumber ( " Ecballium elaterium " ).
Pliny also describes the preparation of a medication known as " elaterium ", though some scholars believe he was referring to " Ecballium elaterium ", known in pre-midwives, and thrown away when the child was born.
"Desfontainia spinosa " has been found to contain, among other compounds the cucurbitacins spinoside A and B . These bitter steroids, while not hallucinogenic, could contribute to the relative toxicity of the plant for human subjects, given that cucurbitacins exhibit cytotoxicity and that certain kinds have been held responsible for cases of poisoning, some fatal, by dangerously irritant / cathartic plants in the plant family Cucurbitaceae such as " Ecballium elaterium " and " Citrullus colocynthis ".