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In old legends prisoners were sometimes tied to the trunk of the Ipoh tree for execution. Plants and animals in the immediate area of the tree all die.

It's very toxic in it's own right and even more so in concentrated form.

There is also a climbing bush variety can be processed to make deadly poison.
Upas tieute (Strychnos Tieute).

See also: Terris elliptica or Tuba root. The arrow-poison of the Malays and fish poison of Java. Its active constituent, an acid resin, dervid, is reputed intensely poisonous, gold-fish being stupefied by 1/5000000 part, death following in 30 minutes.
King's American Dispensatory. by Harvey Wickes Felter, M.D., and John Uri Lloyd, Phr. M., Ph. D., 1898. http://www.henriettesherbal.com/ecle...-nux.html#ipoh


Hey Boar, should I assume you are a skeptic of the deadly magic of silat?

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