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Hyoscyamus niger (botany)
Hyoscyamus niger is known to cause dangerous and extremely unpleasant experiences.
Please use responsible use practices when trying this drug and always have a trip sitter.
| Hyoscyamus niger (botany) | |
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 Drawing of H. niger |
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| Taxonomical nomenclature | |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Unranked | Angiosperms |
| Unranked | Eudicots |
| Unranked | Asterids |
| Order | Solanales |
| Family | Solanaceae |
| Genus | Hyoscyamus |
| Species | H. niger |
| Common nomenclature | |
| Common names | Henbane, Stinking nightshade |
| Constituents | |
| Active constituents | Tropane alkaloids |
Hyoscyamus niger, commonly known as henbane, black henbane, or stinking nightshade, is a plant in the family Solanaceae.
Chemistry
The leaves and herbage contain S-(–)-hyoscyamine and S-(–)-scopolamine. Trace amounts of aposcopolamine, not scopolamine, littorine, tropine, cuscohygrine, tigloidine, and tigloyloxytropane have also been found.[1]
References
- ↑ Raetsch, Ch. (2005). The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants: Ethnopharmacology and Its Applications