Triatix is an acaricide popular with farmers in the management of ticks in domestic animals. The active ingredient in Triatix is amitraz often suspended in a hydrocarbon xylene.
Triatix is one of the popular suicide agent seen in our local hospitals. Its ingestion causes severe CNS depression and cardiovascular perturbation characterized by significant hypotension and coma.
Tea-botanically known as Camellia sinensis-contains thousands of bioactive constituents such as polyphenols (mostly flavonoids), steroids, terpenoids, carotenoids, alkaloids, tannins and glycosides some of which have direct effects on the vasculature through relaxation of vascular smooth muscle.
Tea-induced relaxation of vascular smooth . . .
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