Plant Atropa bella-donna (Solanaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Belladonna

How this plant is used

Medicinal

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List of plant chemicals.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Chemical Name	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
ALKALOIDS	0	Leaf	1000.0	12000.0	0.20	Duke, 1992 *
ALKALOIDS	0	Root	4000.0	8800.0	-0.49	Duke, 1992 *
APOATROPINE	2	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ASPARAGINE	2	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ATROPAMINE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ATROPAMINE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ATROPINE	51	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BELLADONNINE	1	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BELLADONNINE	1	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BELLARIDINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHOLINE	20	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CUSCOHYGRINE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DELTA-N-METHYLORNITHINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ESCULETIN	30	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HELLARADINE	0	Root	not available	20.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HOMATROPINE	7	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HYOSCYAMINE	27	Root	2000.0	8712.0	1.80	Duke, 1992 *
KAEMPFEROL-7-GLUCOSIDE-3-RHAMNOGALACTOSIDE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
KAEMPFEROL-7-GLUCOSIDE-3-RHAMNOGLUCOSIDE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
L-HYOSCYAMINE	0	Root	3080.0	7656.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Hyperkinetic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hyperpyrexic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Hypertensive	1	Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
Hypnotic	1	Martindale's 28th
Hypocholesterolemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hypoglycemic	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 165
Hypotensive	2	Duke, 1992 *
Ileorelaxant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Immunosuppressant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Insecticide	2	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Irritant	1	Merck 11th Edition
Lipotropic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor	3	Duke, 1992 *
MAO-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Memorigenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Musculotropic	2	Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.
Mydriatic	3	Merck 11th Edition
Myorelaxant	3	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Nematistat	1	Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Neurotoxic	2	R.J. Hixtable (Huxtable, R.J. (as T. Max). 1992. This and That:The Essential Pharmacology of Herbs and Spices. Tips 13:15-20 Huxtable, R.J. 1992b. The Myth of Benficent Nature. The Risk of Herbal Preparations. Anns. Intern. Med. 117(2):165-6; Huxtable, R.