Hyoscyamus niger

Plant Medicine, Daimonica, Tropane alkaloid plant

Hyoscyamus niger

Henbane, black henbane

Hyoscyamus niger is a Eurasian Solanaceae with foul-smelling sticky leaves and pale yellow flowers veined purple. Reputed to be one of the witches' flying-ointment plants; some scholars argue henbane fumes (rather than ethylene) produced the trance state of the Pythia at Delphi. Hyoscyamine and scopolamine are its dominant tropanes.

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See also

Datura, Brugmansia, Mandragora, Atropa belladonna

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Summary

Classes

Plant Medicine, Daimonica, Tropane alkaloid plant

Common uses

Shamanic use▲0▼, Historical medicinal▲0▼

Pharmacy

Preparations

Leaves and seeds, traditionally smoked or infused. Possibly the original Pythia oracle plant

Pharmacology

Routes

Oral, inhalation

Purported mechanism

Tropane alkaloids: hyoscyamine, scopolamine, in higher seed concentrations than belladonna or datura.