Four women in France landed in intensive care after being poisoned by a plant they mistook for spinach
The four women ended up in the intensive care unit of a hospital in eastern France after eating datura leaves, a toxic plant also known as the Devil's weed and Hell's bells, said the French food safety agency, Anses.
All four showed symptoms of "serious poisoning" which can include fever, hallucinations, psychosis, convulsions and sometimes kidney failure.Datura has traditionally been used in witchcraft and sorcery in many cultures, and is commonly planted at the end of rows of potatoes in organic permaculture to kill Colorado beetle larvae.
"A year later they noticed little leaves popping up at the spot where they had planted the seeds" and assumed it was the spinach, it added.
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