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
Narcotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Nematicide	3	Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Neuroinhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Neurotoxic	2	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.
Neurotransmitter	2	Duke, 1992 *
NF-kB-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
NO-Genic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Ornithine-Decarboxylase-Inhibitor	1	Hagerman, A.E. Tannin-Protein Interactions. Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, Ch.19.
Ovicide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Oviposition-Stimulant	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
PAF-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.
Percutaneostimulant	1	Seki, T., Toeda, C., Kawaguchi, T., Juni, K., Sugibayashi, K., and Morimoto, Y. 1990. Enhanced Transdermal Delivery of Zidovudine in Rats and Human Skin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(11): 3086-3089, 1990.
Perfumery	2	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Pesticide	9	Duke, 1992 *
Phagocytotic	1	Planta Medica, 56(6): 671, 1990.
Photophobigenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Piscicide	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Preanesthetic	1	Merck 11th Edition