Datura stramonium. Medical search. FAQ

This name is the accepted name of a species in the genus Datura (family Solanaceae ). (theplantlist.org)
Datura stramonium is a wild plant of the Solanaceae family. (psycheplants.org)
D. stramonium , like many Solanaceae, contains tropane alkaloids that are toxic and dangerous, such as atropine, hyoscyamine and scopolamine. (psycheplants.org)
The dosage of datura and other Solanaceae is extremely difficult to determine. (psycheplants.org)
Datura stramonium , known by the common names Jimson weed or datura, is a plant in the Solanaceae (nightshade) family. (deathvalleyjim.com)
Datura Stramonium and Brugmansia Arborea seeds, as well as contaminated buckwheat samples (mixing 1 g of Solanaceae seed with 1 kg of buckwheat), obtaining only the active enantiomer (Tab. (atlasofscience.org)
Datura is a genus of 12-15 species of vespertine flowering plants belonging to the family Solanaceae . (bionity.com)

It is from this instance that datura was given the nickname, Jimson Weed. (seedscollector.com)
Datura stramonium (DS), also referred to as Jimson weed, bears several other names based on different cultures because of its wide distribution and usage as a tropical shrub. (scirp.org)

In Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, different ethnic groups have used brugmansia species, plants of the datura genus that contain the same alkaloids for their divinatory qualities and for initiatory rites of the young. (psycheplants.org)
The genus Datura is usually listed as derived from the Hindoo Dhatura and that in turn, from an older Sanskrit, word D'hustúra , which applied to the species fastuosa found in east Asia and the Indian subcontinent. (friendsofeloisebutler.org)
The species comprising the Datura genus are known for their distinctive trumpet-shaped flowers and stramonium possesses some of the most impressive and fragrant of them all! (arkhamsbotanical.com)
To the genus Datura , belong about 9 species distributed in the temperate and warm regions of all continents, especially in Central America. (photomazza.com)
After many scholars the origin of the genus Datura is Central-American, but the presence in the Old World in pre-Colombian period is amply documented. (photomazza.com)
Datura genus is distributed over tropical and warm temperate regions of the world. (scirp.org)
The genus Datura , with 9 to 12 known species, occurs widely throughout the temperate and warmer parts of both the Old and New World. (fed.us)

Other examples of atropine in the popular literature are Castaneda's use of Datura inoxia ointment and Hawthorne. (asahq.org)
Plants that are similar to D. stramonium are Datura metel and Datura inoxia . (psycheplants.org)
Plant taxonomists disagree amongst themselves whether D. stramonium and D. inoxia are different species while D. inoxia and D. metaloides are considered alternate names for the same species. (angelfire.com)
D. stramonium is most often the Datura species refered to as jimsonweed, while D. metaloides (also sometimes D. wrightii) is usually applied to Sacred Datura and D. inoxia to Toloache. (angelfire.com)
Seeds and roots of tropical species (Datura inoxia mill. (psychotropicon.info)
Blackford MG, Fitzgibbon JJ, Reed MD. Assessment of serum creatine kinase among adolescent patients following jimsonweed (Datura stramonium) and moonflower (Datura inoxia) ingestions: a review of 11 cases. (medscape.com)
Thus, Datura sanguinea , a fragrant shrub from southeast Brazil may carry name Angel's Tears but Angel's Trumpet, D. inoxia , might also be the Devil's Trumpet. (canadafreepress.com)

Biotinylated Datura stramonium lectin has an appropriate number of biotins bound to provide the optimum staining characteristics for this lectin. (vectorlabs.com)
This product is the Biotinylated Datura Stramonium Lectin and has sugar specificity to [GlcNAc]1-3, N-Acetylglucosamine. (creativebiomart.net)
Datura stramonium agglutinin or lectin (DSA/DSL) is purified by affinity chromatography. (glycomatrix.com)
Seeds of Datura stramonium contain at least three different carbohydrate-binding proteins, and the most prominent lectin is a dimeric glycoprotein composed of two nonidentical subunits that contains 40% carbohydrate. (glycomatrix.com)
Biotinylated Datura stramonium Lectin (DSA/DSL) has an appropriate amount of biotin bound to provide optimum detection characteristics when using an Avidin-HRP or Streptavidin-HRP conjugate. (glycomatrix.com)
Fluorescein-conjugated derivatives of Solanum tuberosum lectin, Lycopersicon esculentum lectin, and Datura stramonium lectin, which bind N-acetylglucosamine residues as WGA, also bound to the secondary thickening of TEs of pea roots. (springer.com)
Yeoman MM (1978) Purification of the lectin from Datura stramonium . (springer.com)

All parts of Datura plants contain dangerous levels of the tropane alkaloids atropine, hyoscyamine, and scopolamine, which are classified as deliriants, or anticholinergics. (wikipedia.org)
An individual datura seed contains about 0.1 mg of atropine, and the approximate fatal dose for adult humans is >10 mg atropine or >2-4 mg scopolamine. (wikipedia.org)
To explore to what extent these factors promote the among-population differentiation of plant resistance of 13 populations of Datura stramonium , we compared the degree of phenotypic differentiation ( P ST ) of leaf resistance traits (trichome density, atropine and scopolamine concentration) against neutral genetic differentiation ( F ST ) at microsatellite loci. (peerj.com)
The main tropane alkaloids containing D. stramonium are atropine, scopolamine and hyoscyamine. (psycheplants.org)
At this point of our description, it should be noted that all parts of Datura stramonium contain highly dangerous (and wildly varying) levels of toxic deliriants - the tropane alkaloids atropine, hyoscyamine and scopolamine. (arkhamsbotanical.com)
Datura contains the alkaloids scopolamine and atropine and has long been used as a poison and hallucinogen . (bionity.com)

Datura stramonium, from the Greek strychnomanikon (causing madness), is another of the atropine-containing herbals. (asahq.org)

Datura tatula L. (usda.gov)
Datura stramonium f. tatula (L.) B.Boivin, Naturaliste Canad. (wikimedia.org)
Datura stramonium f. tatula (L.) Geerinck & É.Walravens, Naturalistes Belges 79(4): 270. (wikimedia.org)
Datura tatula L., Sp. (wikimedia.org)
Datura tatula var. (wikimedia.org)
Stramonium tatula (L.) Moench, Methodus, 456. (wikimedia.org)
Jimsonweed was introduced to the Wildflower Garden by Eloise Butler on October 10, 1916 when she planted seeds, using the old name of Datura tatula . (friendsofeloisebutler.org)

Datura inermis Juss. (wikimedia.org)
Datura stramonium f. inermis (Juss. (wikimedia.org)

Datura stramonium is packed with tropane alkaloids. (missouriplants.com)
Datura can be detrimental to the heart because of the tropane alkaloids. (thenaturopathicherbalist.com)
The toxins in Datura stramonium are tropane alkaloids. (scirp.org)

Thorn-apple, or datura, is unusual in that it is native to tropical America, but has colonized northwards as far as New England. (newenglandwild.org)
Early American Shaker ad for Extract of Thorn Apple that includes Datura stramonium . (fed.us)
dumbcane (Dieffenbachia), hemlock (Conium maculatum, which is a poisonous plant and not related to the coniferous hemlock tree), English ivy (Hedera helix), mistletoe (Viscum album), oleander (Nerium oleander), thorn apple or jimsonweed (Datura stramonium), yew (Taxus spp. (thefreedictionary.com)

Datura stramonium, known by the English names jimsonweed or devil's snare, is a plant in the nightshade family. (wikipedia.org)
Sometimes, datura is termed as witches weeds and shows properties like deadly nightshade and henbane. (pioneerherbal.com)
A poisonous annual plant (Datura stramonium) in the nightshade family, having large, trumpet-shaped white or purplish flowers and prickly egg-shaped seed capsules. (thefreedictionary.com)

In recent years, datura and the related brugmansia varieties have grown in popularity for their large and prolific blooms. (seedscollector.com)
Central and South American medicine men often use flowers and leaves of plants that were formerly known as Brugmansia (tree datura, angel's trumpets), if they will start their trance journeys. (psychotropicon.info)

In India the use of different varieties of datura, particularly D. metel has been established. (psycheplants.org)
Datura metel - L. (pfaf.org)
Datura metel is a ANNUAL growing to 1.5 m (5ft) at a medium rate. (pfaf.org)

Datura intoxication typically produces delirium (as contrasted to hallucination), hyperthermia, tachycardia, bizarre behavior, and severe mydriasis with resultant painful photophobia that can last several days. (wikipedia.org)
Datura stramonium ( DS ) is a tropical ubiquitous plant commonly used to increase the intoxication of certain beverages for recreational purposes. (scirp.org)
Datura stramonium (DS) is a known hallucinogen and depressant of the central nervous system, but it is commonly used in alcoholic beverages to increase intoxication. (scirp.org)
Spontaneous intoxication in 34 horses after ingesting freshly harvested maize that was to be used for ensiling and heavily contaminated with young Datura stramonium plants, is described. (jsava.co.za)

Sacred Datura ( Datura wrightii ) is also called moonflower, a reference to the fact that the flowers open late in the day. (fed.us)

Datura stramonium is native to North America, but was spread to the Old World early. (wikipedia.org)
D. stramonium is a plant native to the deserts of southeastern North America and Central and South America, Europe, Asia and Africa. (psycheplants.org)

All the species of Datura are poisonous in nature. (pioneerherbal.com)
Even being a poisonous plant, datura has been using since the ancient times by ayurveda physicians, spiritual purposes, holy men and its use in modern medicine drugs. (pioneerherbal.com)
the name of species, stramonium, comes perhaps from the Greek "στρυχνοσ" (strychnos) which is the name of a poisonous plant, probably Solanum (but means also bitter) + "μανια" (mania) = crazyness. (photomazza.com)
Datura is less poisonous than belladonna, but still much caution is advised for the dosage. (psychotropicon.info)
Complete chloroplast genome sequence of poisonous and medicinal plant datura stramonium: Organizations and implications for genetic engineering[J]. PLoS ONE,2014,9(11). (um.edu.mo)
Yang Y.,Dang Y.,Li Q.,Lu J.,Li X.,&Wang Y..(2014).Complete chloroplast genome sequence of poisonous and medicinal plant datura stramonium: Organizations and implications for genetic engineering. (um.edu.mo)

To learn more about these alkaloids and the toxicity of Datura check out " Medical Botany: PLants Affecting Man's Health " by Lewis & Lewis. (missouriplants.com)
The dose-response curve for the combination of alkaloids is very [ citation needed ] steep, so people who consume datura can easily take a potentially fatal overdose , hence its use as a poison. (bionity.com)

Datura bernhardii Lundstr. (wikimedia.org)

pH and time influence in the enantiomerization of (-)-hyoscyamine in Stramonium seeds at 80 ºC. (atlasofscience.org)

Datura pseudostramonium Sieber ex Bernh. (wikimedia.org)
Datura pseudostramonium Sieb. (pfaf.org)

Datura Stramonium is perhaps the most well-known species of datura. (seedscollector.com)
Stramonium seeds tend to germinate more readily than most other species of datura. (seedscollector.com)
This resistance explains also the extremely great diffusion of the various species of Datura. (photomazza.com)
Various species of Datura, especially the shrubby or arboreal ones, are cultivated as ornamental. (photomazza.com)
Seeds of Datura stramonium and tropical species of Datura in garden centers as well as in ethnobotanical shops. (psychotropicon.info)

Datura seeds parts used are seeds, flowers and leaves. (pioneerherbal.com)
Stramonium 's toothy leaves range from around eight to twenty centimetres in length, with the top of them coloured a darker green than the bottom's lighter hue. (arkhamsbotanical.com)
In Germany Datura leaves were sold without prescription in the form of asthma-cigarettes by pharmacies, until the seventies. (psychotropicon.info)
The aim of the present study was to evaluate immune modulatory effect of fractions of D. stramonium L. leaves on human peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) followed by assessment of cytotoxic abilities of immunomodulated PBMC toward cancer cells. (phcogj.com)
Poisoning by Datura leaves used as edible wild vegetables. (medscape.com)
Pereira CA, Nishioka S de D. Poisoning by the use of Datura leaves in a homemade toothpaste. (medscape.com)

There has also been considerable interest in the use of extracts of Datura species as botanical pesticides. (pfaf.org)
Moreover, the extracts obtained by using a combination of hexane and toluene on Datura stramonium and Phytolacca dodecandra presented greater inhibition. (alliedacademies.org)

Scientific classification of Datura stramonium and Phytolacca dodecandra. (alliedacademies.org)

The toxic effects of datura have been observed and studied since accidental poisoning with the plant is relatively frequent in places like India, and there have also been cases of poisoning and death in the United States and Europe. (psycheplants.org)

Datura wrightii , also called sacred datura or western jimsonweed , has similar effects. (bionity.com)

Datura stramonium f. godronii (Danert) Geerinck & É.Walravens, Nat. (wikimedia.org)

Datura is has historical use as a hallucinogenic herb. (thenaturopathicherbalist.com)
To the British soldiers despatched there to suppress the revolt, was offered a salad made from datura and soon the hallucinogenic effects did appear violently. (photomazza.com)

Additionally, within a given datura plant, toxin concentration varies by part and even from leaf to leaf. (wikipedia.org)
Here we aimed to determine if among-population variation in traits that confer resistance to herbivores in the annual plant Datura stramonium is consistent with a scenario of varying selection or genetic drift and restricted gene flow. (peerj.com)
The origin of the species name - stramonium - is not settled, some writers attributing it to a Greek word for a plant known as madapple. (friendsofeloisebutler.org)
Datura is an herbaceous perennial plant, which is grown in temperate and tropical region of the globe. (pioneerherbal.com)
Not really a species we'd feel comfortable growing around young children, but that aside, stramonium is a surprisingly easy and rewarding plant to grow as a novel ornamental. (arkhamsbotanical.com)
The Datura stramonium is a usually glabrous plant, only the young parts present a down which is lost with the growth. (photomazza.com)
The Chumash Indians of southern California used Datura as a sacred and medicinal plant. (fed.us)
The old grandmother "Momoy" turned herself into the plant Datura after the great flood, which marked the transition between mythical times and the modern world. (fed.us)
1 ) using the flowering plant Datura stramonium and the work by Bridges ( 2 ) using the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster . (pnas.org)

Natural products from Datura stramonium and Phytolacca dodecandra are increasingly of interest because they are known to have an effect on a living organism. (alliedacademies.org)
The present study would be a basic understanding to use for a practical purpose of Datura stramonium and Phytolacca dodecandra in pharmacological areas. (alliedacademies.org)
Datura stramonium and Phytolacca dodecandra ( Table 1 ) have been used in tropical Africa to treat various infectious diseases. (alliedacademies.org)

Asma-belarra edo estramonio ( Datura stramonium ) solanazeoen familiako landare belarkara da. (wikipedia.org)

datura is internally used for treating giddiness, dry mouth, hallucinations and coma. (pioneerherbal.com)

Datura wallichii Dunal in DC. (wikimedia.org)

Stramonium vulgare Moench, nom. (wikimedia.org)

Stramonium foetidum Scop. (wikimedia.org)

Datura has been used in traditional medicine to relieve asthma symptoms and as an analgesic during surgery or bonesetting. (wikipedia.org)
The seeds of datura are analgesic, anthelmintic and anti-inflammatory and as such, they are used in the treatment of stomach and intestinal pain that results from worm infestation, toothache, and fever from inflammations. (pioneerherbal.com)

Stramonium laeve (L.f. (wikimedia.org)

Datura laevis L.f. in L.f. (wikimedia.org)

Datura praecox Godr. (wikimedia.org)

Datura loricata Bernh. (wikimedia.org)

Stramonium spinosum Lam. (wikimedia.org)

Stramonium vulgatum Gaertn. (wikimedia.org)

Datura capensis Bernh. (wikimedia.org)

Datura parviflora Salisb. (wikimedia.org)

Datura bertolonii Parlat. (wikimedia.org)
Datura bertolonii Parl. (theplantlist.org)

Datura meteloides) are used by natives for cultic purposes. (psychotropicon.info)
Datura meteloides contains additionally meteloidine. (psychotropicon.info)

There are numerous reports of people suffering from madness from accidental datura ingestion. (seedscollector.com)

The intoxicating and medicinal properties of datura are also known in Africa. (psycheplants.org)

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