Rick Springfield is getting candid about experimenting with drugs as treatment for depression. In this week's issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands Friday, the "Jessie's Girl" singer, 75, shares that he ...

A ripe ear of grain containing the dark, and poisonous, ergot growing on it (Getty stock) Ergot poisoining causes convulsions, hallucinations and gangrene, and in medieval times people even thought it ...

Ergot alkaloids are a group of headache medicines that include dihydroergotamine (Migranal, Trudhesa, others) and ergotamine (Cafergot, Ergomar, Ergostat, others). These drugs are used only to ...

When ingested, ergot manifests itself similarly to LSD or other psychedelic drugs and could easily have caused this behavior; however, there are other symptoms of ergot poisoning including ...

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Chicago | Reuters –– Elevated levels of the grain fungus ergot are showing up in spring wheat being harvested in south-central North Dakota, prompting grain elevators to impose discounts and even turn ...