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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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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 *
ALKALOIDS 0 Root 1600.0 -0.84 *
ALKALOIDS 0 Seed 600.0 100.0 -0.81 *
APOATROPINE 2 Leaf *
ARSENIC 2 Seed 0.3 2.51 *
ATROPINE 51 Leaf *
ATROPINE 51 Seed *
ATROSCINE 0 Seed *
BIMETHYLAMINE 0 Leaf *
CALCIUM 28 Seed 7420.0 0.60 *
CHLOROGENIC-ACID 77 Leaf *
CHOLINE 20 Plant *
COPPER 12 Seed 26.0 1.01 *
COUMARIN 57 Plant *
CUSCOHYGRINE 0 Leaf *
ESCULETIN 30 Plant *
FAT 0 Seed 250000.0 389000.0 0.65 *
GABA 22 Leaf *
GUM 0 Seed 62000.0 -0.34 *
HYOSCYAMINE 27 Leaf *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Prooxidant 1 *
Propecic 4 *
Protisticide 1 *
Psychoactive 2 Watt, J.M. and Breyer-Brandwijk, M.G. 1962. The Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of Southern and Eastern Africa. E. & S. Livingstone, Ltd. Edinburg & London. 1457 pp.
Psychotomimetic 1 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.
Radioprotective 1 *
Respiradepressant 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Respirodepressant 1 *
Rodenticide 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Schizophrenigenic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Sedative 4 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.
Soap 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Spermigenic 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Sunscreen 3 Lazarova*, G., Kostova, I., Neychev, H. 1992. Photodynamic damage prevention by some hydroxycoumarins. Fitoterapia 64(2): 134-136, 1993.
Suppository 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Sweetener 1 Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
Tachycardic 2 Martindale's 28th
Testosteronigenic 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Topoisomerase-II-Inhibitor 1 Bernard, F. X., Sable, S., Cameron, B., Provost, J., Desnottes, J. F., Crouzet, J., Blanche, F. 1997. Glycosylated Flavones as Selective Inhibitors of Topoisomerase IV. Antimicrobial Agents & Chemotherapy, 41: 992-998.
Toxic 2 *