The plant is poisonous.
Application
Danish Ginger should not be confused with the herb ginger. They are two very different plant families.
Danish ginger was already known in ancient times, where it was used as an expectorant and for intestinal obstruction. In the Middle Ages, it was used against plague and abscesses.
Danish ginger is no longer used as a medicinal plant.
The beautiful orange-red berries are poisonous. Fortunately, they taste very bitter, so eating them to the point of poisoning will not be a pleasure.
Ingredients
Contains the alkaloid coniine and the volatile substance aroine, which may also be an alkaloid.
Arum maculatum L.
Photo of page in Joachim Burser's herbarium.
