2006-09-20 20:16:02 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Genealogy
A mixture of alkaloids used as a narcotic drug.A modern Latin word of uncertain origin (perhaps originally from the Tartar turman, “horse medicine”) identifying a mixture of alkaloids such as atropine and hyoscyamine. It was extracted from the leaves and flowering tops of the thornapple, a narcotic plant better known in the US as jimsonweed because it poisoned colonists at the early settlement of Jamestown in Virginia (“jimson” being a corruption of “Jamestown”). The drug was in the British Pharmacopaeia for centuries as a drug with narcotic and hypnotic effects and had an honourable place there in the treatment of asthma right up to the end of the Second World War; it is still used in homeopathic medicine. It has also been used by various peoples as an hallucinogen.
2006-09-20 20:24:11 · answer #1 · answered by Semiramis 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Datura stramonium, also called Jimson Weed, Loco Weed, Jamestown Weed, Thorn Apple, Angel's Trumpet, and Zombie's Cucumber is a common poisonous weed in the Nightshade Family.
2006-09-20 20:27:07 · answer #2 · answered by bigbore454 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The dried poisonous leaves of the jimsonweed, used in the treatment of asthma.
2006-09-20 22:24:53 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋