Thevetia
Allen, The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica, 1874, Vol. IX, p. 596
Thevetia nereifolia, Juss. (Cerebral thevetia, Linn.)
Natural order, Apocynacese.
Common names, Ahovai-baud (of the Antilles).
Authority. Dr. John Balfour, Edin. Med. Journ., 1856, p. 1094, effects of eating some seeds in two boys, aged eight years and six years and a half.
A tendency to sleep, disturbed every three to five minutes by irritation in the throat, and the discharge of a mouthful of frothy mucus with a sort of gulp ; this action was very peculiar, I have never seen anything like it before; then the child would lie down and close his eyes until again disturbed. — Vomiting. — Bowels of both moved twice or thrice. — Pulse of the older, 60 ; of the younger, 70.