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Plant Medicine, Daimonica, Tropane alkaloid plant

Atropa belladonna

Deadly nightshade

Atropa belladonna is the deadly nightshade of European herbal tradition, a Solanaceae perennial with shiny black berries deceptively similar to currants. Named for 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).

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Summary

Classes

Plant Medicine, Daimonica, Tropane alkaloid plant

Common uses

Historical cosmetic (pupil dilation)0, Source of atropine0

Pharmacy

Preparations

Leaves, berries, root. Historically: belladonna cigarettes ("Asthmador") OTC in US until the 1970s

Pharmacology

Routes

Oral, topical

Legal status

Plant unrestricted; pharmaceutical atropine Rx-only

Purported mechanism

Tropane alkaloids: hyoscyamine (dominant; the racemic form is atropine), scopolamine. Competitive muscarinic antagonism.

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 | 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).
+| 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/>
-}}
-{{PendellsCorner
-| quote  = Atropos, the Fate who cuts the thread. The beautiful lady of the medieval flying ointments &mdash; 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 &mdash; replace with verbatim passage
 }}
 [[Category:Daimonica]]
-[[Category:Plant Medicines]]
+[[Category:Plants]]
 [[Category:Anticholinergics (anti-muscarinic)]]
 [[Category:Medicines]]
 [[Category:Deliriants]]