Belladonna
See also: Belladonna (homonymy)
The Belladonna ( Atropa belladonna ) or Beautiful-Lady , is a long-lived herbaceous plant of Solanacée S. It is apparently the only known representative of the Atropa . The species Atropa physalodes L. is indeed a synonym not accepted of Nicandra physalodes (L.) Gaertn.
Description
It is a large plant being able to reach 1 m 50, ramified, with the oval sheets pointed, petiolate, with the flowers out of bell, recluses, hanging, brown with the armpit of the sheets. The fruits are black bays luisantes size of a cherry. The plant is very toxic for the man in all his parts. It contains various Alcaloïde S, of which the Hyoscyamine and the Atropine.Its generic name, Atropa , correspond to that of the one of the three Parques (ατροπος, Atropos , inflexible), that which cut the wire of the life.
Characteristics
- Inflorescences : Cyme multipare
- flowers: hermaphrodite S
- pollination: entomogame
- fruit: bay
- dissemination: endozoochore
- optimal habitat: long-lived médioeuropéennes, eutrophiles, mesohydric clearings, neutrophiles
- surface of distribution: European
Pharmacopeia
History
One lends a ritual use to him, in particular at the time of the Sabbath S. Utilisée for poisoning.Use
- Left used: Sheet S
- Component chemical: Alkaloid S tropanic: Hyoscyamine (of which the Racémique is the Atropine) and Scopolamine (= hyoscine); other components: Scopolétol (a Coumarin), starch, tannin, etc
- Properties: Parasympatholytique, Antispasmodique, Narcotic, Analgesic, Antiasthmatique
- Forms Galénique S: dyeings, extracts, powders, entering various preparations: syrups, suppositories; homeopathic drops and granules
Indications and precautions for use
The belladonna (fruits, roots, sheets) is a toxic plant. The fruits, generally responsible for intoxications, can try the children. The ingestion of this plant causes a characteristic symptomatology: redness of the face, dryness of the mouth and the mucous membranes, intense thirst and muscular weakness, Tachycardia, Mydriase, Hyperthermia, Hallucination S and Is delirious, agitation. Death can occur by Paralysie of the respiratory tracts. The belladonna stimulates the bulbar Center and the central Nervous system.The plant must be exclusively reserved for the preparation of galenic forms in pharmaceutical medium. These last are used in the symptomatic treatment of the Toux, like Spasmolytique in partnership with Laxatif S, in the symptomatic treatment of the pains related to the functional disorders of the digestive tract and the bile ducts, like Antalgique.
The use must be done under medical control. Employment disadvised with cardiac and the depressed S.
Incompatible with the alkaline compounds, the Tannin S and the Pilocarpine.
Etymology
1602, of botanical Latin belladona , Italian bleated gave " beautiful dame". The sheets of belladonna contain alkaloids close to the atropine. To the Rebirth, in Italy, the coquettery led the ladies to put drops containing of the extracts of belladonna in the eye. This caused a dilation of the Pupille (indeed, the dilation of the pupils is one of the manifestations of the Excitation sexual and wishing admiration, demonstration unconsciously perceived by the men and which stimulates them), and slightly made have a cast, which was at that time characteristic of the beauty (cf the expression " to have a coquettery in the œil").
See too
External bond
- GRIN 6051
Simple: Deadly nightshade
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