Liber Herbarum Minor (English)

Rev.29-09-2008

Downy thornapple

Plant names
Solanaceae
English Downy thornapple, Garden Thorn Apple, Hindu Datura, Hindu thornapple, Horn-of-plenty, Innoxious Thorn Apple, Purple thorn-apple, Recurved thornapple, Thorn apple, White datura, White thornapple
Latin Datura metel L., Datura stramonium var. tatula, Datura alba Nees
Plant partsFruit, Leaf
Diseases & Uses
Diseases anaesthetic, Anticonvulsant, Antiepileptic, Asthma, calm the central nervous system, Colic, Cough, cough depressing, Digestive ulcers, Enlarges the pupil of the eye, enteritis, Excessive urination at night, gall stone, gastric catarrh, Hypnotic, Motion sickness, Pain, Parkinson's disease, relaxes the nervous system
Homoeopathically uses asthma, convulsions, neuralgia
Warnings do not selfadminister, Hallucinogen
Other uses magic power
Contents
 alkaloid, allantoin, Alpha-linoleic-Acid, ascorbic acid, Atropine, Beta-Linoleic-Acid, caproic-Acid, Coumarin, fat, Hyoscine, Hyoscyamine, Oleic-Acid, poisonous alkaloid, Scopolamine

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