Plant Hyoscyamus niger (Solanaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Henbane

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
HYOSCYAMINE	27	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HYOSCYPICRIN	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
IRON	6	Seed	not available	180.0	0.14	Duke, 1992 *
KAEMPFEROL-3-DIGLYCOSIDE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLEIC-ACID	27	Seed	141000.0	219396.0	0.96	Duke, 1992 *
MAGNESIUM	65	Seed	not available	5250.0	0.91	Duke, 1992 *
MANGANESE	14	Seed	not available	166.0	1.40	Duke, 1992 *
METHYL-PYROLLIDINE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
METHYL-PYRROLINE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MUCILAGE	3	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MYRISTIC-ACID	6	Seed	750.0	1167.0	-0.28	Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID	18	Seed	88000.0	136928.0	0.15	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Seed	16250.0	25285.0	-0.18	Duke, 1992 *
PHYTOSTEROLS	2	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
POTASSIUM	14	Seed	not available	5680.0	-0.61	Duke, 1992 *
POTASSIUM-NITRATE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN	0	Seed	not available	212000.0	-0.19	Duke, 1992 *
PYRIDINE	3	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN-7-GLUCOSIDO-3-RHAMNOGALACTOSIDE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RESIN	0	Seed	not available	not available	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
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