Used as a base for salad dressings, taken internally by employees of lead factories, used in liniments and soaps.
Though fairly common in homeopathic and folk medicine, Arnica is toxic and can cause fatal poisoning if taken internally.
If taken internally, it must be diluted with water; arnica contains the toxin helenalin and is poisonous if consumed in large quantities.
Castor oil consists almost entirely of the triglycerides ricinoleic acid; and although castor oil has been taken internally as a cathartic, its use can be harmful.
Taken internally, the poison causes severe, even fatal reaction in many predators, but some animals (e.g., hognosed snakes) are not affected.
"Isn't it the irony of fate that I have been prescribed nitroglycerin to be taken internally" and by another name to disguise its contents, Nobel wrote to Mr. Sohlman, his chief executor.
Now he was told that for a mad dog's bite the seeds of the Black Ummattaka or thorn apple should be soaked in cow piss, ground into a paste, and taken internally.
Chlorophyll, which is abundant in parsley, is even used in a concentrated form at high doses, taken internally, to fight more objectionable odors, including those produced in fecal incontinence, according to the PDR for Nutritional Supplements, the standard reference in the field.
Nawwar et al. have also recently isolated twenty phenolic compounds from the aerial parts of Reaumuria vermiculata (Tamaricaceae) [49], a plant whose decoction is used externally or taken internally to cure fromitch and bruises [50].
An infusion of the leaves was taken internally for diarrhoea and used externally for bathing cuts.
