Sentences with word «ergot»

In the Middle Ages, those who consumed large amounts of ergot - infested rye flour were afflicted with St. Anthony's Fire, a condition characterized by advanced gangrene.

Meanwhile, the use of anti-migraine medications such as triptans and ergot alkaloids rose from 9.8 percent to 15.4 percent.

At Sandoz Laboratories in Basel, Switzerland, chemist Albert Hofmann accidentally dosed himself with LSD, a rye ergot fungus he had been working with, and suddenly saw the world through kaleidoscope eyes.

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

It's very similar to the fungus Claviceps, commonly known as ergot.

In the Middle Ages it sometimes killed thousands of people during epidemics when ergot - infected rye bread was more common.

«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.

But that wonderful source he's talking about is vitamin D2, which is otherwise made artificially from radiating ergot and yeasts.

The rye crop consumed in the winter of 1691 - 1692 — when the first unusual symptoms began to be reported — could easily have been contaminated by large quantities of ergot.

With these ergot - derived drugs, gangrene is no longer a threat.

Researchers also noted in their report that «few fungi have had a greater historical impact on society than ergot.»

Some grasses have natural defense mechanisms, and ergot may be one of them, helping to repel herbivores.

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

A perfectly preserved amber fossil from Myanmar has been found that provides evidence of the earliest grass specimen ever discovered — about 100 million years old — and even then it was topped by a fungus similar to ergot, which for eons has been intertwined with animals and humans.

Hydergine: an ergot alkaloid extract originally developed to improve blood flow in the brains of stroke victims and people with epilepsy.

When Albert Hoffmann began exploring the chemical properties of the ergot spore, he stumbled upon a potent psychedelic

She reminded me of a nineteenth century Nancy Drew - the list of things she knows and can do could fill the endpapers of the book (not just industrial chemistry and the wiring of circuits and the pathology of ergot, but also horticulture, sewing and cooking).

oats (cheap, easy, big) wheat (not wheatgrass) Japanese barnyard millet, bluegrass fescue rye (but beware of ergot, which is a fungal infection and produces LSD - like chemicals), ryegrass (annual ryegrass is cheap and easy to grow, but small), alfalfa sprouts or bean sprouts in SMALL amounts (these have anti- protein compounds that reduce the protein value of other things fed to the animal — or human!)