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
Ornithine-Decarboxylase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Paralytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Parasympathomimetic	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Perfumery	2	Merck 11th Edition
Pesticide	9	Duke, 1992 *
Photoactive	1	Duke, 1992 *
Photophobigenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Phytoalexin	1	Duke, 1992 *
Phytohormonal	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Poultice	1	Martindale's 29th
Preanesthetic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Psychoactive	2	Watt, J.M. and Breyer-Brandwijk, M.G. 1962. The Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of Southern and Eastern Africa. E. & S. Livingstone, Ltd. Edinburg & London. 1457 pp.
Psychotomimetic	1	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.
Psychotropic	1	Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990.
Respiradepressant	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Sedative	2	Duke, 1992 *
Serotoninergic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Sunscreen	2	Lazarova*, G., Kostova, I., Neychev, H. 1992. Photodynamic damage prevention by some hydroxycoumarins. Fitoterapia 64(2): 134-136, 1993.
Tachycardic	2	Martindale's 28th
Toxic	2	Duke, 1992 *