Hyoscyamus niger
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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.
Datura, Brugmansia, Mandragora, Atropa belladonna
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Summary
Classes
Plant Medicine, Daimonica, Tropane alkaloid plant
Common uses
Shamanic use0, Historical medicinal0
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.