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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture

 COLCHICINE

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Chemid
COLCHICINE
A list of known dosages for COLCHICINE
Dosage*Reference
LDlo=7 mg/man Martindale's 29th
LDlo=0.186 (orl hmn) CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
LD50=66.6 (orl mus) Borchard, R. E., Barnes, C. D., and Eltherton, L. G. 1991. Drug Dosage in Laboratory Animals: A Handbook. (3rd Ed.) The Telford Press, Inc., P. O. Box 287, Caldwell NJ 07006.
LD50=4.13 (ivn mus) Merck 11th Edition
LD50=1.6 (ivn rat) *
LD50=0.13 (orl cat) Borchard, R. E., Barnes, C. D., and Eltherton, L. G. 1991. Drug Dosage in Laboratory Animals: A Handbook. (3rd Ed.) The Telford Press, Inc., P. O. Box 287, Caldwell NJ 07006.
Ubiquitous
No

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Plant Part Low PPM High PPM StdDev *Reference
Colchicum autumnale Tuber 800.0 12300.0 -- *
Gloriosa superba Bulb -- -- -- *
*Unless otherwise noted all references are to Duke, James A. 1992. Handbook of phytochemical constituents of GRAS herbs and other economic plants. Boca Raton, FL. CRC Press.