http://www.thepoisonreview.com/2009/12/02/mad-honey-sex/ "Poison is everything and no thing is without poison" - Paracelsus Sat, 28 Jan 2012 22:47:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.thepoisonreview.com/2009/12/02/mad-honey-sex/comment-page-1/#comment-44 Leon Fri, 04 Dec 2009 07:01:01 +0000 http://www.thepoisonreview.com/?p=374#comment-44 Interesting point. To keep with the theme of historical references, it is worth noting that on Captain Cook's exploration of the South Pacific (1772-1775), his men became sick after eating freshly caught bream or snapper, fish classically associated with ciguatera poisoning. Ciguatoxin opens sodium channels. Parts of the fish were fed to dogs on board the ship, leaving some of the animals with rear limb paralysis and priapism. (Doherty MJ, Captain Cook on Poison fish. Neurology 2005;65:1788). To paraphrase Mae West: "Are your sodium channels open, or are you just glad to see me?" Interesting point. To keep with the theme of historical references, it is worth noting that on Captain Cook’s exploration of the South Pacific (1772-1775), his men became sick after eating freshly caught bream or snapper, fish classically associated with ciguatera poisoning. Ciguatoxin opens sodium channels. Parts of the fish were fed to dogs on board the ship, leaving some of the animals with rear limb paralysis and priapism. (Doherty MJ, Captain Cook on Poison fish. Neurology 2005;65:1788). To paraphrase Mae West: “Are your sodium channels open, or are you just glad to see me?”

]]> http://www.thepoisonreview.com/2009/12/02/mad-honey-sex/comment-page-1/#comment-43 precordialthump Fri, 04 Dec 2009 02:56:19 +0000 http://www.thepoisonreview.com/?p=374#comment-43 I wonder if the 'victims' can get priapism from Mad Honey intoxication, as can occur in other sodium-channel activator toxins like scorpion envenoming? I wonder if the ‘victims’ can get priapism from Mad Honey intoxication, as can occur in other sodium-channel activator toxins like scorpion envenoming?

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