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Hyoscyamine (also known as daturine or duboisine) is a naturally occurring tropane alkaloid and plant toxin. It is a secondary metabolite found in certain plants of the family Solanaceae, including henbane, mandrake, angel's trumpets, jimsonweed, the sorcerers' tree, and Atropa belladonna (deadly nightshade).
Datura plant, commonly used in traditional Chumash spirituality. Chumash traditional medicine is a type of traditional medicine practiced by the Chumash people of the southern coastal regions of California. [1] Chumash medicine focused on treating mind, spirit, and body alike to promote the wellness of both the individual and the larger community.
Scopolamine, also known as hyoscine, [9] or Devil's Breath, [10] is a natural or synthetically produced tropane alkaloid and anticholinergic drug that is used as a medication to treat motion sickness [11] and postoperative nausea and vomiting.
Datura wrightii, commonly known as sacred datura, is a poisonous perennial plant species and ornamental flower of the family Solanaceae native to the Southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico. It is sometimes used as a hallucinogen due to its psychoactive alkaloids. D. wrightii is classified as an anticholinergic deliriant. [1]
Datura is a genus of nine species of highly poisonous, vespertine-flowering plants belonging to the nightshade family (). [1] They are commonly known as thornapples or jimsonweeds, but are also known as devil's trumpets or mad apple [2] (not to be confused with angel's trumpets, which are placed in the closely related genus Brugmansia).
The common name "datura" has its origins in India, where the sister species Datura metel is considered particularly sacred – believed to be a favorite of Shiva in Shaivism. [54] Both Datura stramonium and D. metel have reportedly been used by some sadhus and charnel ground ascetics, such as the Aghori , as both an entheogen and ritual poison.
Image Genus Species Brugmansia Pers.: Brugmansia arborea Sweet (Andes - Ecuador to northern Chile); Brugmansia aurea Lagerh. (Andes - Venezuela to Ecuador) Brugmansia insignis Lockwood ex R.E. R.E.Schult.
Daturaolone isolated from Datura metel Linnaeus has been found to have anti-fungal and anti-bacterial activities. When tested against bacterial strains such as Klebsiella pneumoniae and S. aureus , daturaolone was shown to inhibit bacterial growth.