Euonymus Europæus
Allen, The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica, 1874, Vol. IV, p. 234
Euonymus Europaeus, Linn.
Natural order, Celestracese. Common names, Spindle tree (Burning bush).
Preparation, Trituration of the seeds.
Authority. Dr. Greater; a man, aged 43, took eighteen seeds one evening, and as many more next morning, fasting, Med. Jahrb. f. das Herzog. Nassau, 15 and 16 Heft, 1859.
He was seized with frightful abdominal pains, profuse diarrhoea, eventually bloody (soon after last dose). He was not seen till evening, when he was in a state of profound collapse, with involuntary evacuations of blood and mucus. On lifting him up, tetanic convulsions were induced, which immediately preceded death.