Simple past tense and past participle of ingest. A tea of leaves and bark is ingested in treating diarrhea. Thus atropine will save life after three and a half times the fatal dose of physostigmine has been taken, but will hasten the end if four or more times the fatal dose has been ingested. More @Wikipedia
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