Comments on: Datura - Jimson Weed http://shamangarden.tatriblogs.com/datura-jimson-weed.html Garden of information about entheogens and ethnobotanicals. Sun, 05 Feb 2012 08:56:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Arokachikachaka http://shamangarden.tatriblogs.com/datura-jimson-weed.html#comment-49 Arokachikachaka Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:39:01 +0000 http://shamangarden.tatriblogs.com/?p=311#comment-49 "Jimsonweed- Annual; 2-5 ft. Leaves coarse-toothed. Flowers white to pale violet; 3-5 in., trumpet shaped; May-Sept. Seedpods spiny, chambered. Whole plant contains atrophine, scopolamine, and othe alkaloids; used in eye diseases (atrophine dialates pupils); causes dry mouth, depresses bladder muscled, impedes action of parasympathetic nerves, used in Parkinson's Disease; also contains scopolamine, used in patches behind ear for vertigo. Leaves were once smoked as an antispasmodic of athsma. Folk Cancer remedy. WARNING: VIOLENTLY TOXIC. Causes severe hallucinations, many fatalities recorded. Those who collect this plant may end up with swollen eyelids." Peterson Feild Guides, Medicinal Plants an herbs - Steven Foster and James A. Duke. “Jimsonweed- Annual; 2-5 ft. Leaves coarse-toothed. Flowers white to pale violet; 3-5 in., trumpet shaped; May-Sept. Seedpods spiny, chambered. Whole plant contains atrophine, scopolamine, and othe alkaloids; used in eye diseases (atrophine dialates pupils); causes dry mouth, depresses bladder muscled, impedes action of parasympathetic nerves, used in Parkinson’s Disease; also contains scopolamine, used in patches behind ear for vertigo. Leaves were once smoked as an antispasmodic of athsma. Folk Cancer remedy.

WARNING: VIOLENTLY TOXIC. Causes severe hallucinations, many fatalities recorded. Those who collect this plant may end up with swollen eyelids.”

Peterson Feild Guides, Medicinal Plants an herbs - Steven Foster and James A. Duke.

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