Amida Green - Amida Green

Japanese: アミダグリン - あみだぐりん
Amida Green - Amida Green

...A plant that contains toxic substances in all or part of its body, and that causes poisoning or dermatitis when humans or animals eat or touch it. In a broad sense, it can also include mushrooms. Many poisonous plants are also used medicinally. Due to the absolute necessity of securing food, awareness of poisonous plants around us has probably existed since the beginning of human history. Interest in plant toxins is far greater than that of other biological toxins, and as knowledge increases, the number of poisonings caused by poisonous plants is steadily decreasing year by year, but there are still about 100 cases of poisoning reported in Japan each year.

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "Amydagrin" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…植物体の全部あるいは一部に有毒成分を含み,人間や動物がそれを食べたりさわったりすると,中毒や皮膚炎をおこさせる植物。広義にはキノコを含むこともある。有毒植物はまた同時に薬用植物となるものが多い。 食糧の確保という絶対的な必要性から身辺にある有毒植物に対する認識はおそらくは人類の歴史の初めからあったにちがいない。植物毒に対する関心は他の生物毒にくらべてはるかに高く,知識の増加に伴って有毒植物による中毒被害は年々確実に減少しているが,それでもいまだに日本で年間約100件を数える中毒の報告がある。…

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