- Contains ANTHRACENONES ❖ (amount VARY in different STAGES of their growth) ➢ GREEN FRUIT: MORE TOXIC than the RIPE FRUIT ❖ Signs and Symptoms: ASCENDING FLACCID PARALYSIS ➢ muscle relapse/weakness and shrinks ➢ The damage STARTS FROM THE NEURONS OF LEGS and up to the whole body and until the patient will die ➢ LAST STAGE: BULBAR PARALYSIS - PARALYSIS OF JAW, FACE, PHARYNX AND LARYNX