Health - General

OLEANDER IS A DEADLY POISON.

Poisoning occurs when sucking the nectar from the flowers, chewing the leaves from Oleander or Yellow Oleander. Also poisonous is the honey made from it.

ALL parts of the plant are poisonous - flowers, leaves, twigs and stems, and the poisonous ingredients are;
digitoxigenen
nenin
oleandrin
oleandrocide.

It affects eyes, ears, nose, throat and mouth.
Gastrointestinal function
Heart
Nervous system
Skin.
A comprehensive toxin.

The NERIUM OLEANDERmentioned in the article is also poisonous in all its parts. It is in the DOGBANE family, APOCYNACEA.

Six leaves of Oleander will kill a man.

That this website should publish the article makes all its articles suspect, and each should be thoroughly checked out.

If ingested, contact a poison control centre immediately.

You can google
Hostetler; Poisonous Plants, published by McGraw Hill, or google Medicine Plus, U.S. Library of Medicine National Institute of Health.

Heads up, people.

Kind regards, Musashi.