The Hokkaido Institute of Public Health was established in 1949 with the aim of raising the standards of health and hygiene in Hokkaido. In Hokkaido, cases of food poisoning due to poisonous plants occur almost every year. From 1955-2018, the number of patient cases was 257 and the number of deaths was 18. The highest number of causative plants was 20 cases of
Aconitum sp., followed by 9 cases of
Colchicum autumnale, and 8 cases of
Narcissus sp. Between 1989-2018, six cases of the 13
Aconitum sp., five cases of the 9
Colchicum autumnale and seven cases of the 8
Narcissus sp. were from accidental and unknowing ingested of
Anemone flaccida,
Allium victorialis and
Allium tuberosum, respectively. Although the plants that cause food poisoning are diverse, food poisoning by poisonous plants that are considered to be cultivated plants such as
Colchicum autumnale and
Narcissus sp. has been increasing since 1989. Poisonous plants may grow not only in hills and fields but also in familiar places such as home gardens. Hokkaido Institute of Public Health has a medicinal botanical garden planted with northern medicinal plants and poisonous plants resembling wild plants. Therefore, in order to prevent health damage caused by poisonous plants, a "Spring wild plants exhibition (HARU NO SANSAITEN)" is held at the medicinal botanical garden for the purpose of disseminating knowledge on how to identify wild plants and poisonous plants. There, we are alerting the visitors of the "Spring wild plants exhibition" not to eat plants belonging in
Colchicum autumnale,
Veratrum sp.,
Aconitum sp. and
Datura metel by mistake.
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