Mandragora officinarum
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Plant Medicine, Daimonica, Tropane alkaloid plant
Mandragora officinarum
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Mandragora officinarum is a Mediterranean Solanaceae perennial with a thick, often anthropomorphic taproot. The root's resemblance to a human form drove millennia of folklore: said to grow beneath gallows from a hanged man's semen, said to scream when uprooted, said to confer fertility, sleep, and divination. Hildegard von Bingen distinguished male and female roots. Joan of Arc was charged with wearing a manniken between her breasts.
Datura, Brugmansia, Atropa belladonna, Hyoscyamus niger
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Classes
Plant Medicine, Daimonica, Tropane alkaloid plant
Common uses
Historical medicinal0, Folkloric talisman0
Pharmacy
Preparations
Root, traditionally carved into mannikens or infused into wine
Pharmacology
Routes
Oral
Purported mechanism
Tropane alkaloids: hyoscyamine, scopolamine, atropine, apoatropine.