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Greetings friends of @naturalmedicine I hope you are healthy and happy ... Responding to the call you have made to participate in the challenge tobacco (poison or medicine) here I bring you my entry to participate.
Tobacco has a name by which it is scientifically known as nicotiana tabacum, it is also known as sacred herb and tobacco. This is native to the tropical and subtropical Americas, it is a robust annual plant that can reach up to 2.5 meters tall, little branched, with large green leaves and white flowers. Tobacco is a very controversial plant. Among its active ingredients are nicotine, cotinine, myosmin, nicotyrine, anabasin and nicothelin. In addition, in this plant, several other substances are found and some are very toxic, such as turpentine, formaldehyde, ammonia and naphthalene. Back in the days, tobacco was believed to be a great remedy for many diseases, such as headaches, stomach ailments, ulcers, migraines, gingivitis, and toothaches. In the 17th century, this plant began to receive criticism, and in the mid-20th century, some researchers demonstrated that tobacco causes cancer. The first people who learned to use the plant as a wound healer were the Indians because of this in some places, the plant came to be called "sacred herb", this because of its medicinal properties, such as anti-inflammatory, antiparasitic, hypertensive, narcotic, sedatives, vermifuges and insecticides.
Despite being used to treat diseases in the past, its effectiveness in medicinal use has not been demonstrated. Israeli researchers in recent years have genetically modified tobacco and created artemisinin, a drug that works quickly against malaria, from it. Tobacco has different more common uses, these are smoking it or inhaling it through cigarettes, cigars, pipes and tobacco. The infusion of its leaves can be used externally to treat scabies, lice, ticks, toothaches and insect bites. Tobacco is contraindicated for children, pregnant women, and nursing mothers. The consumption of the plant in the form of cigarettes can cause various diseases, such as cancer, emphysema, respiratory tract infection and pneumonia.
When used in high doses, it can lower blood pressure, cause tremors in the hands, headache, dizziness, leg weakness, loss of appetite, salivation, gaps, chest pain, digestion problems, nausea, diarrhea , vomiting and cardiorespiratory failure. *Culturally speaking ...* In eastern Venezuela, specifically in the Sucre State, tobacco has been cultivated and manufactured for family support since remote times. Many mothers raised their children professionally and those who do not like to study send them to the tobacco crops. They have this as family customs every day from 3:00 am to 7:00 am a mother manually makes more than 500 tobaccos.
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Originally posted here: https://hive.blog/hive-120078/@lorennys/challenge-naturalmedicine-tobacco-a-plant-that-continues-to-carry-its-stigma
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