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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).
Datura, Brugmansia, Mandragora, Hyoscyamus niger
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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.
“Pendell's corner
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.
— Dale Pendell, Pharmako/Poeia
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