Poisoning by glory lily: A case report.

ABSTRACT

People from rural areas who are less accessible to medical health care facilities or those who are ignorant of the facilities, sometimes prefer local hakims for treatment of common ailments. But due to their ignorance of the fact that such practitioners lack scientific expertise, they suffer dire consequences from such primitive therapies. This person who availed therapeutic services from a hakim, ended fatally as a result of overdoses of a root preparation obtained from Glory Lily plant. This paper also outlines the Clinico-Pathological aspects of poisoning by Glory Lily.