arrow poisons造句

• But newcomers, starting with the Spanish conquistadors, quickly picked up the most obviously efficacious and economically valuable medicines, like coca, the basis for cocaine, the antimalarial medicine quinine, and the arrow poison curare, which is the basis for a muscle relaxant used in surgery.
• The genus " Scadoxus " has some strongly toxic species, containing poisonous alkaloids lethal to animals, such as sheep and goats, that graze on the leaves or bulbs . " Scadoxus multiflorus " is traditionally used in parts of tropical Africa as a component of arrow poisons and fishing poisons.
• In China, this plant is known as " arrow poison wood " and the poison is said to be so deadly that it has been described as " Seven Up Eight Down Nine Death " meaning that a victim can take no more than seven steps uphill, eight steps downhill or nine steps on level ground before dying.