Atropa belladonna - Revision history

MDElliottMD: Category taxonomy ship: retag plant categories -> Plants

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Category taxonomy ship: retag plant categories -> Plants

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	[[Category:Daimonica]]		[[Category:Daimonica]]
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	[[Category:Anticholinergics (anti-muscarinic)]]		[[Category:Anticholinergics (anti-muscarinic)]]
	[[Category:Medicines]]		[[Category:Medicines]]
	[[Category:Deliriants]]		[[Category:Deliriants]]

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	\| routes = Oral, topical		\| routes = Oral, topical
	\| mechanism = Tropane alkaloids: hyoscyamine (dominant; the racemic form is atropine), scopolamine. Competitive muscarinic antagonism.		\| mechanism = Tropane alkaloids: hyoscyamine (dominant; the racemic form is atropine), scopolamine. Competitive muscarinic antagonism.
	\| intro = ''Atropa belladonna'' is the deadly nightshade of European herbal tradition — a Solanaceae perennial with shiny black berries deceptively similar to currants. Named for [[wiki:Atropos\|Atropos]], the Fate who cuts the thread, and ''bella donna'' ("beautiful woman") because Renaissance Italian women instilled the juice into their eyes to dilate the pupils. Long history in witchcraft (flying ointments), poisoning, and modern ophthalmology (atropine).		\| intro = ''Atropa belladonna'' is the deadly nightshade of European herbal tradition, a Solanaceae perennial with shiny black berries deceptively similar to currants. Named for [[wiki:Atropos\|Atropos]], the Fate who cuts the thread, and ''bella donna'' ("beautiful woman") because Renaissance Italian women instilled the juice into their eyes to dilate the pupils. Long history in witchcraft (flying ointments), poisoning, and modern ophthalmology (atropine).
	\| legal = Plant unrestricted; pharmaceutical atropine Rx-only		\| legal = Plant unrestricted; pharmaceutical atropine Rx-only
	\| seealso = [[Datura]], [[Brugmansia]], [[Mandragora]], [[Hyoscyamus niger]]		\| seealso = [[Datura]], [[Brugmansia]], [[Mandragora]], [[Hyoscyamus niger]]

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	\| seealso = [[Datura]], [[Brugmansia]], [[Mandragora]], [[Hyoscyamus niger]]		\| seealso = [[Datura]], [[Brugmansia]], [[Mandragora]], [[Hyoscyamus niger]]
	\| references = <references/>		\| references = <references/>
	}}

	~~{{PendellsCorner~~
	\| quote = Atropos, the Fate who cuts the thread. The beautiful lady of the medieval flying ointments — belladonna by name, deadly by chemistry, mythic by hand. Her tropanes do not lie about themselves: they will give you the experience and they will give you the consequences, and the only safe ratio is the one a healer has counted out for you in milligrams.
	~~\| volume = Poeia~~
	~~\| voice = curated paraphrase — replace with verbatim passage~~
	}}		}}

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	\| seealso = [[Datura]], [[Brugmansia]], [[Mandragora]], [[Hyoscyamus niger]]		\| seealso = [[Datura]], [[Brugmansia]], [[Mandragora]], [[Hyoscyamus niger]]
	\| references = <references/>		\| references = <references/>
			}}

			{{PendellsCorner
			\| quote = Atropos, the Fate who cuts the thread. The beautiful lady of the medieval flying ointments — belladonna by name, deadly by chemistry, mythic by hand. Her tropanes do not lie about themselves: they will give you the experience and they will give you the consequences, and the only safe ratio is the one a healer has counted out for you in milligrams.
			\| volume = Poeia
			\| voice = curated paraphrase — replace with verbatim passage
	}}		}}

MDElliottMD: Comprehensive categorization: +Deliriants

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Comprehensive categorization: +Deliriants

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	[[Category:Anticholinergics (anti-muscarinic)]]		[[Category:Anticholinergics (anti-muscarinic)]]
	[[Category:Medicines]]		[[Category:Medicines]]
			[[Category:Deliriants]]

MDElliottMD: Create skeletal Plant Medicines page from Pendell

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{{MedTemplate
| generic = Atropa belladonna
| brand = Deadly nightshade
| classes = Plant Medicine, Daimonica, Tropane alkaloid plant
| uses = <vote slug="historical-cosmetic-use">Historical cosmetic (pupil dilation)</vote>, <vote slug="medicinal-source-use">Source of atropine</vote>
| preparations = Leaves, berries, root. Historically: belladonna cigarettes ("Asthmador") OTC in US until the 1970s
| routes = Oral, topical
| mechanism = Tropane alkaloids: hyoscyamine (dominant; the racemic form is atropine), scopolamine. Competitive muscarinic antagonism.
| intro = ''Atropa belladonna'' is the deadly nightshade of European herbal tradition — a Solanaceae perennial with shiny black berries deceptively similar to currants. Named for [[wiki:Atropos|Atropos]], the Fate who cuts the thread, and ''bella donna'' ("beautiful woman") because Renaissance Italian women instilled the juice into their eyes to dilate the pupils. Long history in witchcraft (flying ointments), poisoning, and modern ophthalmology (atropine).
| legal = Plant unrestricted; pharmaceutical atropine Rx-only
| seealso = [[Datura]], [[Brugmansia]], [[Mandragora]], [[Hyoscyamus niger]]
| references = <references/>
}}

[[Category:Daimonica]]
[[Category:Plant Medicines]]
[[Category:Anticholinergics (anti-muscarinic)]]
[[Category:Medicines]]