Sentences with phrase «now ergot»

Now ergot is used effectively, and relatively safely, in drugs such as methysergide, to prevent migraine pain.

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Apparently both ergot and the grasses that now form most of the diet for the human race evolved together.

«It seems like ergot has been involved with animals and humans almost forever, and now we know that this fungus literally dates back to the earliest evolution of grasses,» said George Poinar, Jr., an internationally recognized expert on the life forms found in amber and a faculty member in the OSU College of Science.

Experts now know that those symptoms are common among people with convulsive ergotism, or ergot poisoning, which is caused by a fungus that can grow on wheat, rye, and other similar grains.