cascabela thevetia/ウアバイン

1 Peruvoside, (a glycoside obtained from the plant, Thevetia neriifolia Juss) and ouabain produce emesis in cats. Vomiting is not produced by these drugs in animals pretreated with catecholamine depleting drugs like reserpine, tetrabenazine or syrosingopine. Chloropromazine hydrochloride, mepyramine

The immediate haemodynamic effects of peruvoside, a cardiac glycoside obtained from the Indian plant Thevetia neriifolia Juss, were studied in six patients with congestive heart failure. The drug was found to have an immediate and powerful positive inotropic and negative chronotropic effect, like

1 In cats intracerebroventricular administration of 5, 10, 20 mug of peruvoside, a cardiac glycoside obtained from the plant, Thevetia neriifolia, and 10 and 20 mug of ouabain, produced marked neurotoxicity. This was dose-related. 2 Prior administration reserpine (2 mg/kg i.m., 500 mug i.c.v.) or