Page 57 - Pharmacognosy-II (06-PG 303)

Solanaceous Herbs

Stramonium Belladonna Egyptian Hyoscyamus

Thornapple leaf Deadly nightshade Egyptian Henbane
‫الداتورا‬ ‫السكران المصرى‬
‫ست الحسن‬

Official as leaves with OR without flowering tops Official leaves with flowering tops

All collected during flowering
All contain alkaloids calculated as Hyoscyamine

Definitions E. P. 1984

Stramonium Belladonna Hyoscyamus

is the dried leaves, is the dried leaves, is the dried leaves and
with or without the flowering with or without the flowering flowering tops of
tops of Datura stramonium tops of Atropa belladonna L.
Hyoscyamus muticus L.
L. or of Datura tatula L.

family Solanaceae

Belladonna History:

During the Middle ages, a beauty tonic made from the leaves and berries of the Deadly Nightshade
was used by Venetian women to redden the pigment of their skin for a blush-like appearance.
The beauty tonic was also used to dilate women’s pupils (fashionable at the time Atropa
Belladonna, meaning “Beautiful Lady” in Italian.

51