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
Hepatotoxic	1	Martindale's 29th
Hepatotropic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Herbicide	3	Angewandte Botanik 68(5/6)=1994. Page 195.
Histamine-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Hydrocholerectic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hypercholesterolemic	1	Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
Hyperglycemic	2	Merck 11th Edition
Hyperkinetic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hyperpyrexic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Hypertensive	2	Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
Hypnotic	2	Martindale's 29th
Hypocalcemic	1	Borchard, R. E., Barnes, C. D., and Eltherton, L. G. 1991. Drug Dosage in Laboratory Animals: A Handbook. (3rd Ed.) The Telford Press, Inc., P. O. Box 287, Caldwell NJ 07006.
Hypocholesterolemic	5	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Hypoglycemic	3	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 165
Hypolipidemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hypotensive	4	Duke, 1992 *
Immunomodulator	3	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Immunostimulant	4	Duke, 1992 *
Immunosuppressant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Insecticide	3	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.