Talk:Phytolacca americana

message: Substantial rewrite of the stub.  More to come. Karen S Vaughan 05:35, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Rewrite

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message: Starting a new section since the previous one is so large.
It is weird how we seem to have such non-overlapping access to different materials. For what it's worth, here is the citation and abstract for the peripheral blood paper:

Mitogenic properties of extracts from Phytolacca americana (pokeweed, scoke, inkberry) for human peripheral blood cells in vitro have been reported from this laboratory. Subsequently, the appearance of leukocytes typical of early and late members of the plasmacytic series was described in the peripheral bloods of two of the authors (P.F. and B.E.B.), who received accidental systemic exposure to the mitogen. Effects of phytomitogens on human cells in vivo are not established, although a number of investigators have administered phytohemagglutinin from Phaseolus vulgaris to patients with aplastic anemia, hoping that the "transformed" lymphocytes might possess hematopoietic potentialities and repopulate the marrow with useful cells. Interpretations of such studies have been complicated by the small numbers of patients studied, the natural course of this group of anemias, simultaneous use of other therapy, and other variables.More information has been accumulated about the effects of phytomitogens on peripheral blood cells in vitro. The process of "transformation" or blastogenesis of lymphocytes, whether induced by plant extracts or specific antigenic stimuli, appears to involve an immune mechanism, although morphologic differentiation toward the plasmacytic series is not seen in the in vitro environment.Recently, we have had the opportunity to study serial blood films from children who received systemic exposure to pokeberry, either through proven oral ingestion (berries recovered from vomitus), or by exposure of fresh cuts and abrasions to pokeberry juice in the course of handling the berries. In each of these instances large cells morphologically typical of plasmablasts and proplasmacytes, and mature plasma cells were found in the peripheral blood films for periods up to 2 weeks following exposure. Mitotic cells were present in the peripheral blood during the first 10 days after exposure (Fig. 1 and 2).
Nadiatalent (talk) 16:00, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Material for a rewrite 

message: * A large chunk of this article appears to be a copy/paste from a footnoted document... possibly just a bad internal copy/paste... but I always worry about copyvio when I see that.
* The food bit is repeated repeatedly
* The description of food use in the Phytolacca article appears to me to be better wording.Unfriend13 (talk) 21:23, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notes triggered from Phytolacca article work 

message: If smoking Phytolacca conduces to any psychotropic effect it would explain proposals for its extermination by antipsychotropic fanatics.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.134.28.16 (talk) 16:56, 10 February 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: What reason is there to think that smoking this plant has any psychotropic effect?  And who are these antipsychotropic fanatics that are proposing to exterminate it?  Deli nk (talk) 17:08, 10 February 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: I have never heard of anyone proposing smoking pokeweed (and I have been alive since 1948, grew up in the Appalachians, and survived the 1960s). Efforts at extermination are motivated by the toxicity of pokeweed to mammals including human children. In full disclosure, I exterminated a patch of pokeweed I found growing on my property because neighbor children might find the berries tempting. "If smoking Phytolacca conduces to any psychotropic effect it would explain proposals for its extermination by antipsychotropic fanatics" sounds like a parody of a propsychotropic fanatic who sees narcs behind every bush. Have we been trolled here? -- Naaman Brown (talk) 09:47, 31 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  NO information for effects when smoked 

message: The photo at the lower left, showing flowers in bud only, is almost certainly not Phytolacca americana. It appears to be one of the other species. P. acinosa, or perhaps P. polyandra? 160.111.254.17 (talk) 19:56, 3 January 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I've removed the images in question. Plantdrew (talk) 05:14, 30 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photo 

message: Hi all, I am looking for sources on eating pokeberries as pie or jam after proper preparation. It does not seem to be nearly as widely recorded as the use of the greens, but pokeberry pie is widespread in the rural South. I've had relatives be surprised to learn that it is considered poisonous. Has anyone come across any references? - 65.29.170.66 (talk) 16:15, 17 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Berries as pie