Thorn-apple Datura stramonium

Thorn apple (Datura stramonium). Reprinted with permission from Harner MJ. (1973). The role of hallucinogenic plants in European witchcraft, in Hallucinogens and Shamanism. Harner MJ, ed. London Oxford University Press. [Pg.389]

Stramonium. Thorn apple. Datura stramonium. W. I. 1008. Bw. I. 17. Folia. The leaves. [Pg.47]

The lectin from the thorn apple, Datura stramonium, purified by affinity chromatography on immobilized fetuin, agglutinates lymphocytes as well as erythrocytes. The agglutination of both cell types was specifically inhibited by oligomers of 2-acetamido-2-deoxy-D-glucose and appears to be caused by a single lectin. However, these activities are distinct from an associated mitogenic... [Pg.336]

Ashford, D., Desai, N.N., Allen, A.K., Neuberger, A., O Neill, M.A. Selvendran, R.R. (1982) Structural Studies of the Carbohydrate Moieties of Lectins from Potato (Solanum Tuberosum) Tubers and Thorn-apple ( Datura stramonium) Seeds , Biochemical Journal, 201, 199-208... [Pg.318]

Van der Krol, D. Schuphan, I. Schmidt, B. Metabolism of [ring-2,6-NCJParathion in Plant Cell Suspension Cultures of Carrot (Daucuc carota), Purple Foxglove (Digitalis purpurea). Soybean, Thorn Apple (Datura stramonium) and Wheat (Triticum aestivum), Pestic. Sci. 1995 45, 143-52. [Pg.35]

Atropine and its naturally occurring congeners are tertiary amine alkaloid esters of tropic acid (Figure 8-1). Atropine (hyoscyamine) is found in the plant Atropa belladonna, or deadly nightshade, and in Datura stramonium, also known as jimsonweed (Jamestown weed), sacred Datura, or thorn apple. Scopolamine (hyoscine) occurs in Hyoscyamus niger, or henbane, as the /(-) stereoisomer. Naturally occurring atropine is /(-)-hyoscyamine, but the compound readily racemizes, so the commercial material is racemic d,/-hyoscyamine. The /(-) isomers of both alkaloids are at least 100 times more potent than the d(+) isomers. [Pg.152]

The atropine series contains a number of very closely allied alkaloids of which the chief are atropine, hyoscyamine, and hyoscine (also called scopolamine). They are found in the roots and leaves of many plants of the Solanaceae, notably belladonna (Atropa belladonna), henbane (Hyoscyamus niger), the thorn apple or jimson weed (Datura stramonium), and some members of the Duboisia and Scopolia genera. These plants were used during the Middle Ages as sorcerer s drugs and have been smoked, chewed, or imbibed in the form of decoctions by primitive people for the hallucinations and frenzy they produce (Figure 14.1). [Pg.196]

Note The best-known antimuscarinic or anticholinergic drugs are the belladonna alkaloids. The major drugs in this class are atropine, hyoscyamine, and scopolamine. A number of plants belonging to the potato family (Solanaceae) contain similar alkaloids. Atropa belladonna (deadly nightshade), Hyoscyamus niger (henbane), Datura stramonium (jimsonweed or thorn apple), and several species of Scopolia also contain belladonna alkaloids. [Pg.203]

Synonyms Datura species Datura arborea-. Datura cornigera Datura folium Datura suaveo-lens Datura stramonium Angel s trumpet Downy thorn apple Horn-of-plenty Stinkweed Thornapple Black henbane Chemical/Pharmaceutical/Other Class Anticholinergic... [Pg.1470]

STRAMONII SEMINA. Thorn apple seeds. Datura stramonium. Semina. The seeds. [Pg.47]

Jimson Weed Datura stramonium (Thorn Apple)... [Pg.58]

Datura stramonium Jimson weed, devil s weed, Thorn apple. Contains atropine, hyoscine, hyoscyamine. Stramonium tea and cigarettes used to be used for asthma. Dilated pupils, mania, red skin colour (dilated vessels and no sweating) thirst, tachycardia, vomiting, convulsions. 100-125 seeds lethal. Death uncommon. Datura was apparently used in India by poisoners to remove idiots from positions of high rank. [Pg.677]

Sims J. Datura stramonium or thorn apple as a cure or relief of asthma. Edinburgh Med Surg J 1812 8 364-367. [Pg.18]

Levitt J, Lovett JV (1984) Activity of allelochemicals of Datura stramonium L. (thorn-apple) in contrasting soil t3q>es. Plant Soil 79 181-189... [Pg.168]

Datura stramonium (Solanaceae, Jimson weed, thorn apple, angel s trumpet)... [Pg.994]

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