White lotus The third season ended, broadcasting its eighth and last episode on Sunday.
In the finale, strange and dangerous fruit has potentially grave consequences. The “suicide fruit” was first introduced into the Ratlif family at the beginning of the season, placed in Thailand.
However, it turns out that the green fruit is not a work of fiction. The plant, filled with toxic seeds, comes from Cerbera odollam, a tree that is usually known as a suicide tree or Pong-pong.
The consequences of eating fruit are severe. According to a 2018 study published by Emergency Medicine MagazineCerbera Odollam is “often used for suicidal absorption.”
The seeds of the plant “can cause hyperkalemia, heart block and death” due to the effects of cardiac glycosides of the tree, which are organic compounds that increase the amount of power placed on the heart of a person.
The tree is a native of South Asia, Southeast Asia, the Pacific Islands, Queensland and Australia.
What Are The Symptoms Of Pong-Pong Seeds?
Pong-Pong’s fruit has potentially grave consequences for the Ratlif family in the White Lotus (Stefano Delia/HBO)
The study at Emergency Medicine Magazine It examines six cases of ingestion of Pong-pong seeds, in which the most common symptoms are vomiting and bradycardia. Three of the patients died – all of whom had a heart block, a condition that “causes your heart to beat slowly or to jump strokes,” according to the clinic in Cleveland.
Symptoms of ingestion of Pong-pong seeds can occur within 20 to 30 minutes, with the body’s protective system encouraging “nausea, vomiting and diarrhea to throw the poison”.
Within an hour, the heart rate of a person can become dangerously low, leading to palpitations and dyshthremia, which can lead to heart failure.
“This will cancel the polarization in the body that is needed for the heart muscle to contract and relax,” Owen McDugal, a professor of chemistry and biochemistry at Boise State University National GeographicS “Without the pulse and relaxation phases, the heart muscle just stops working.”
How often are death caused by fruits?
Cerbera Odollam tree, which has poisonous frua, t is used by more people for suicide than any other plant in the world and has a barely distorted role in murder, say French and Indian scientists (AFP via Getty Images)
The seeds found in Cerbera Odollam are responsible for “hundreds of deaths around the world”, according to a 2018 study published in Clinical practice and cases in emergency medicineS From 1989 to 1999 in Kerala, India, 537 deaths were registered due to the seeds in Cerbera Odollam.
A 2004 study published in Ethnopharmacology It also found that the tree was responsible for 50 percent of cases of plant poisoning in Kerala. The study also reported that the tree -related species Cerbera Venenifera “were responsible for the deaths of 3,000 people a year in the previous centuries.”
A very small dose of seeds can be fatal, although some people have experienced poisoning from it.
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