[A rare case of acute mandragora poisoning. Diagnostic and therapeutic criteria].

After mentioning the botanic characteristics of mandragora, its territorial distribution, morphological characteristics and the toxicological properties of its alkaloids, a clinical case of accidental mandragora poisoning is reported. The case was successfully treated with atropinic block antagonists, namely cholinesterase inhibitors. Apart from its serious symptomatology, mandragora poisoning also involves considerable metabolic commitment of liver and kidney, which present evident signs of disturbance. Information about these and other insidious plants should be spread to prevent such cases of poisoning, whose gravity is enhanced by the fact that they are exceptional and not often encountered in clinical practice.