The drug plants of Illinois drugplantsofilli44teho Year: 1951 AGONITUM NAPELLUS L. Aco- nite, monkshood, wolfsbane. Ranuncu- laceae. U. S. P. XL Pp. Ixvi, 31-2, 391, 485. Leaves and root collected; the official drug is the dried tuberous root. Intro- duced, frequently grown in gardens, not known to have escaped. Yields the extremely poisonous alkaloid aconitine. Used externally as a local ano- dyne to relieve neuralgic and rheumatic pain; poisonous.

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