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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.
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.
The name “nightshades” comes in part from the infamous Belladonna plant, also known as the “deadly nightshade,” because it carries a highly toxic alkaloid called atropine, used ...
A. belladonna is also toxic to many domestic animals, causing narcosis and paralysis. [69] However, cattle and rabbits eat the plant seemingly without any harmful effects. [65] In humans, its anticholinergic properties will cause the disruption of cognitive capacities like memory and learning. [63] Brugmansia spp. angel's trumpet Solanaceae
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).
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 ...
Atropa is a genus of flowering plants in the nightshade family, Solanaceae: tall, calcicole, herbaceous perennials (rhizomatous hemicryptophytes), bearing large leaves and glossy berries particularly dangerous to children, due to their combination of an attractive, cherry-like appearance with a high toxicity. [3]
Atropa acuminata, also known as maitbrand or Indian belladonna, [1] is a close relative of deadly nightshade [2] of Europe and North Africa and, like it, is an extremely poisonous plant valued in medicine for its richness in tropane alkaloids with anticholinergic, deliriant, antispasmodic and mydriatic properties. [3]