Barbasco is the name of several plants that contain poisonous chemical compounds that have been used for fishing by indigenous populations of the Americas:
Lonchocarpus urucu, used by Shuar and Nukak peoples as a poison for fishing.
Deguelia utilis, used in Brazil and Peru as a poison for fishing.
Jacquinia barbasco, an evergreen.
One of several inedible wild Mexican yam (Dioscorea mexicana and Dioscorea composita) from which progesterone can be synthesized.
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Barbasco is the name of several plants that contain poisonous chemical compounds that have been used for fishing by indigenous populations of the Americas:...
The Mexican barbasco trade was the trade of the diosgenin-rich yam species Dioscorea mexicana, Dioscorea floribunda and Dioscorea composita which emerged...
Lonchocarpus urucu, or barbasco, is plant in the family Fabaceae. It is native to the tropical forests of Peru, as well as of Brazil and Guyana, growing...
negro (Dioscorea mexicana) and Barbasco (Dioscorea composita). The demand for barbasco by Syntex initiated the Mexican barbasco trade. As the American Chemistry...
Deguelia utilis, syn. Lonchocarpus utilis (cubé, (common) lancepod or barbasco) is a species of shrub in the family Fabaceae. It is native to the tropical...
first highly successful instance being the discovery in 1947 of the tuber "Barbasco" (Dioscorea composita) which has a high content of diosgenin, revolutionizing...
fish-poison-bean or Vogel tephrosia (English), tefrósia (Portuguese) or barbasco guineano (Spanish), is a flowering plant species in the genus Tephrosia...
or sapogenins. The efforts of Syntex, a company involved in the Mexican barbasco trade, used Dioscorea mexicana to produce the sapogenin diosgenin in the...
contraceptive pill and synthetic cortisone – and to the development of the Mexican barbasco trade. He was born on March 12, 1902, in Hagerstown, Maryland. He received...
manufacture of hormones from D. mexicana at Syntex. Later the Mexican barbasco trade focused instead on Dioscorea composita instead, as this variety has...
Dioscorea composita, or barbasco, is a species of yam in the genus Dioscorea, native to Mexico. It is notable for its role in the production of diosgenin...
partners in Mexico City. When he left Syntex a year later the trade of the barbasco yam had started and the period of the heyday of the Mexican steroid industry...
first highly successful instance being the discovery in 1947 of the tuber "Barbasco" (Dioscorea composita) which has a high content of diosgenin, revolutionizing...
utilis) – South America The root extract is referred to as cubé resin Barbasco (Lonchocarpus urucu) – South America The root extract is referred to as...
he would have to use the same Mexican yam, obtained from the Mexican barbasco trade, as his starting material. Julian used his own money and borrowed...
Cubé resin, the root extract from cubé (Lonchocarpus utilis) and from barbasco (Lonchocarpus urucu), is used as a commercial insecticide and piscicide...
family Primulaceae. Common names for this species is torchwood, azucares, barbasco, and braceletwood. The species is native to Aruba, Dominican Republic,...
quality. Additionally, fishermen along the Amazon have been known to use barbasco, a plant-derived, non-specific ichthyotoxin that kills almost all fish...
Center to further this scientific work. In the 1950s, the wild yam known as barbasco was discovered to contain steroid hormones that could affect human fertility...
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