Talk:Calabar bean

Moved phytostigmine info

Being bold, I moved the vast majority of the info on the drug uses of the calabar bean to the article on Phytostigmine, the drug compound made from this bean. I think there's a better chance of getting a good quality, up to date information on the pharmeceutical side of this bean in that article. RainbowCrane 01:48, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Ordeal mechanism

The German Wikipedia has information that there was some point to the ordeal, in that swallowing the bean quickly (as could be expected of an innocent person who was told the bean would not damage him) was not nearly as dangerous as keeping it in the mouth as long as possible and/or chewing on it (as a guilty person would be more likely to do, having been told the bean would kill him). While this certainly does not justify the practice, it would make the ordeal somewhat more meaningful than other ordeal rituals. If you have reliable source material on this, feel free to add it. -- 92.229.142.182 (talk) 21:43, 17 October 2009 (UTC)

Strange wording

Hi. The last sentence in the intro says that "though solid, was supposed to be hollow". What is exact is this this trying to say? How can anything in the natural world de described as "was supposed to be xyz"? Things are the way they are, they are not supposed to be anything else. Rui ''Gabriel'' Correia (talk) 19:37, 30 July 2011 (UTC)

I think it should say "this appendage, though solid, was believed to be hollow (hence the name from φῦσα, a bladder, and stigma)." --79.236.132.207 (talk) 13:50, 6 April 2014 (UTC)