Plant Datura stramonium (Solanaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Jimsonweed

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
HYOSCINE	0	Seed	1200.0	5000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HYOSCYAMINE	27	Seed	80.0	490.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
ISOBUTYRALDEHYDE	1	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LACTIC-ACID	8	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LIGNOCERIC-ACID	1	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLEIC-ACID	27	Seed	22500.0	45000.0	-0.53	Duke, 1992 *
MALIC-ACID	15	Plant	not available	2120.0	-0.62	Duke, 1992 *
METELOIDINE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
METHANOL	2	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NEO-CHLOROGENIC-ACID	2	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NICOTINE	21	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID	18	Seed	93000.0	186000.0	0.55	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Seed	15000.0	30000.0	-0.08	Duke, 1992 *
POTASSIUM-NITRATE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PROPIONALDEHYDE	2	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN	0	Seed	140000.0	194000.0	-0.35	Duke, 1992 *
PUTRESCINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RUTIN	87	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SCOPIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SCOPOLAMINE	41	Seed	53.0	3050.0	0.94	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
Antiuveitic	1	Martindale's 30th
Antivaccinia	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antivaginitic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antivaricose	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antivertigo	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antivinous	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiviral	10	Duke, 1992 *
Antixerotic	1	Martindale's 29th
Anxiolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Apoptotic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Arteriodilator	1	Ozaki, Y. and Ma, J-P. 1989. Inhibitory Effects of Tetramethylpyrazine and Ferulic Acid on Spontaneous Movement of Rat Uterus in Situ. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(6): 1620-1623, 1990.
Asthma-preventive	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Astringent	1	Merck 11th Edition
Autotoxic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Bacteristat	1	Duke, 1992 *
Beta-Adrenergic Receptor Blocker	1	Duke, 1992 *
Beta-Glucuronidase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Bronchodilator	3	Duke, 1992 *
Bronchorelaxant	3	Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Bruchiphobe	2	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.