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Plant Hyoscyamus niger (Solanaceae)

Common Names
Henbane
How this plant is used
Medicinal

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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
ALKALOIDS 0 Leaf 300.0 1700.0 -0.50 Duke, 1992 *
ALKALOIDS 0 Root not available 1600.0 -0.84 Duke, 1992 *
ALKALOIDS 0 Seed 600.0 100.0 -0.81 Duke, 1992 *
APOATROPINE 2 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ARSENIC 2 Seed not available 0.3 2.51 Duke, 1992 *
ATROPINE 51 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ATROPINE 51 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ATROSCINE 0 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
BIMETHYLAMINE 0 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM 28 Seed not available 7420.0 0.60 Duke, 1992 *
CHLOROGENIC-ACID 77 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CHOLINE 20 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
COPPER 12 Seed not available 26.0 1.01 Duke, 1992 *
COUMARIN 57 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CUSCOHYGRINE 0 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ESCULETIN 30 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
FAT 0 Seed 250000.0 389000.0 0.65 Duke, 1992 *
GABA 22 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
GUM 0 Seed not available 62000.0 -0.34 Duke, 1992 *
HYOSCYAMINE 27 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Hepatotoxic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Histamine-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Hypercholesterolemic 2 Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
Hyperkinetic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Hyperpyrexic 1 Merck 11th Edition
Hypertensive 2 Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
Hypnotic 2 Schultes, R.E. De Plantis Toxicariis e Mundo Novo Tropicale Commentationes XXXVI. Justicia (Acanthaceae) as a Source of an Hallucinogenic Snuff. Economic Botany 44(1): 61-70, 1990.
Hypocholesterolemic 9 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Hypoglycemic 3 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 165
Hypotensive 7 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Ileorelaxant 1 Duke, 1992 *
Immunomodulator 5 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Immunostimulant 3 Duke, 1992 *
Immunosuppressant 1 Martindale's 29th
Insecticide 2 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Insectifuge 3 Tunon, H., Thorsell, W., and Bohlin, L. 1993. Mosquito Repelling Activity of Compounds Occurring in Achillea millefolium L. (Asteraceae). Economic Botany 48(2): 111-120, 1994.
Insectiphile 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Insulinogenic 2 Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000.
Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Interferonogenic 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 124.
Irritant 2 Merck 11th Edition