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Belladonna alkaloids, ergotamine tartrate, and phenobarbital are the three main components of Bellergal. The belladonna plant, which has numerous alkaloids with anticholinergic properties, yields the belladonna alkaloids. A fungus that lives on specific grains produces ergot alkaloids, of which ergotamine tartrate is a synthetic derivative.
Atropa bella-donna flower. Atropa bella-donna is a branching herbaceous perennial rhizomatous hemicryptophyte, often growing as a subshrub from a fleshy rootstock. Plants can reach a height of 2 m (7 ft) (more commonly 1.5 m (5 ft)), and have ovate leaves up to 18 cm (7 in) long.
In 1976, Donnatal was one of the 25 most widely prescribed drugs in the U.S. [12] It has since been displaced by H 2 antagonists and proton pump inhibitors, which are more effective and lack many of the adverse effects of phenobarbital. [13] A four-week multicenter, randomized placebo-controlled trial by Turner et al. [14] compared Donnatal ...
Potential risks: Some negative side effects like muscle cramps, facial swelling, and bloating have been reported in relation to medication interactions, as well as for some people with existing ...
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The name "belladonna", Italian for "beautiful lady", is thought to derive from one of the antimuscarinic effects of these alkaloids: they were used by women for cosmetic purposes, to promote dilation of the pupils. [2] Muscarinic antagonist effects and muscarinic agonist effects counterbalance each other for homeostasis.
The toxic berry of Atropa belladonna which contains the tropane deliriants scopolamine, atropine, and hyoscyamine.. Deliriants are a subclass of hallucinogen.The term was coined in the early 1980s to distinguish these drugs from psychedelics such as LSD and dissociatives such as ketamine, due to their primary effect of causing delirium, as opposed to the more lucid (i.e. rational thought is ...