Origin:
Native toChina; distributed
in West Himalayas.
Action:
Himalayan species act as cardiac and respiratory depressant.
All the species of Delphinium are poisonous;
find use in indigenous medicine for destroying maggots in wounds, particularly in sheep.
The flowers are considered acrid, bitter and astringent; seeds are cathartic, anthelmintic, emetic and insecticidal.
TOXICITY:
All the species of Delphinium are poisonou
Khare, C.P./ Indian Medicinal Plants. -- Nueva Dheli: Springer, 2007 . - p. 836.