Five Cup

Toxins. Poisons

Five Cup call POVELITEL LOSS IN JOY. It represents an attempt to expand into new frontiers, strong emotion, perhaps anger, the reality check, a cleansing of emotions. Like any top five, sold through Saturn, carrying a loss, disappointment, grief. Through it is updating the tradition. In her horoscope dual effect of Leo and Cancer. Negative associations - to develop new solutions.

In the aspect of the Tarot Atu brings the danger of poisoning - food, medicine, manufacturing. Poison can be in many ways - think of the myth of Jason and Medea. Medea sent Hlavka, Jason's new lover, poisoned dress and crown: put on them, Glaucus died in terrible agony. Father Glaucus, Creon, rushed to her aid, but he himself was killed by touching the clothes, soaked with poison ...

Toxins (from the Greek. Toxikon - poison) - a substance of bacterial, plant or animal origin that can inhibit the physiological function that leads to illness or death of living creatures.

According to the chemical nature of all the toxins - proteins or polypeptides that are getting into the body, causing the formation of antibodies.

Toxins are poisons of snakes, scorpions, spiders, poisonous plants. Studied about a hundred bacterial toxins are subdivided into exo-and endotoxins.

Exotoxins - are poisons produced by bacterial cells and released into the environment. Exotoxins cause botulism, tetanus, diphtheria. Endotoxins are usually harmless to all body tissues. They are contained within certain bacteria and released only during the destruction of bacterial cells.

Medicine of the Ancient World marked the beginning of the study of poisons (Proceedings of Dioscorides and Galen). Further development of the toxicology associated with the writings of Paracelsus and yatrohimicheskim direction in medicine (a trend in medicine XVI-XVIII centuries. Its representatives looked at the processes occurring in the body, such as chemical phenomena, sickness - as a result of violation of chemical equilibrium, and seeks to find a chemical means to treat them ). Becoming a science of toxicology begins in mid-XIX century (the works of French scholars M. Orfila (Guidelines for forensic toxicology, 1818) and A. Rabyuto ("A Guide to Toxicology," Rus. Translation 1878). Founder of toxicology in Russia are considered to be A. Nelyubin (1785 - 1858), and E. Pelikan (1824 - 1884).

In modern toxicology distinguish several directions: general, municipal, food processing, pharmaceutical, military, judicial, radiation.

Toxicology related to forensic medicine, occupational and other areas of medicine.

Since the late 50 - ies of the XX century, the science of poisons has leaped forward by inventing methods of protection against various poisons, creating new drugs and serum.

Symbolic aspect. On the field Arkan forest. To the girl walking out there, crawling snake.

Divination aspect. At loss of Arkan high risk of poisoning: beware of the mushrooms. When poisoning flush the stomach (we mean food poisoning) and call your doctor. Bites of poisonous insects, animals and more so as soon as possible consult a doctor.