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
RUTIN	87	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SCOPETOL	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SCOPINE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SCOPOLAMINE	41	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SCOPOLINE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SODIUM	1	Seed	not available	327.0	-0.20	Duke, 1992 *
STEARIC-ACID	8	Seed	4000.0	6224.0	-0.43	Duke, 1992 *
TETRAMETHYLPUTRESCINE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TRIMETHYLAMINE	1	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TROPINE	1	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ZINC	77	Seed	not available	48.0	0.08	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Antidiscotic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antidiuretic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antidote (Aluminum)	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antidote (Anticholinesterase)	3	Martindale's 29th
Antidote (Black Widow)	1	Martindale's 29th
Antidote (Cadmium)	1	Let's Live, May 1989.
Antidote (Lead)	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antidote (Lobelia)	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antidote (Muscarine)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antidote (Mushroom)	1	Martindale's 30th
Antidote (Organophosphorus)	1	Martindale's 29th
Antidote (Poison Gas)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antidote (Tetrodotoxin)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antidysenteric	1	HerbalGram No. 24, page 37.
Antidysgeuzic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antidyskinetic	2	Martindale's 28th
Antidysmenorrheic	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
AntiEBV	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antieczemic	2	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antiedemic	2	Shimizu,*M., et al. 1990. Anti-inflammatory Constituents of Topically Applied Crude Drugs. IV.1) Constituents and Anti-inflammatory Effect of Paraguayan Crude Drug 'Alhucema' (Lavandula latifolia Vill.)2). Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(8): 2283-2284, 1990.