Analysis of Datura Stramonium as a Medicine Levi Phillips Dr. Mark Watson University of Charleston Taxonomy Datura stramonium is a plant that can be as helpful as it is deadly. A member of the Solanaceae family, the plant contains three different types of alkaloids. These alkaloids are atropine, hyoscamine, and scopolamine. Some members of the Solanaceae family are potatoes, coffee, peppers, and tomatoes. (Gaire & Subedi, 2013) This essay will focus primarily on uses of scopolamine from
Enter Datura and Anizir Datura: Why did you do this to them? They were your friends…. Anizir: [Looks down at glowing amulet] Were my friends. Now they are just an instrument to my power! Datura: Power isn’t just your strength. It’s your team, your friends. Anizir: That’s what I once thought too, but now I see everything, this new strength I have from my ‘friends’…. It’s all I need to beat you. Datura: [Grabs her scythe from off of her back] This does not need to end in a battle, you can free
from a mixture of roots from a Jimson weed plant and alcoholic beverages.” This is just one example of poisoning. It is also believed that this weed was used as a poison in the Jamestown Massacre in 1676 according to both the CDC article as well as ‘Datura spp.” on the Cornell University website. You may be thinking, “That is a terrible plant, at least it isn’t intentionally planted in homes around schools, and etcetera;” yet, there is such a plant. The Oleander bush. According to “Nerium oleander”
obstacles and mistakes in life. It is not a complicated story to understand and the characteristic of characters could easily be found in daily life. Audience may relate to people around or even themselves to the story and gain a deeper understanding. Datura, generally known as thrown apple or Devil’s snare, is a kind of plant symbolizing deceitful charms and unexpected death or love
among Native American religious ceremonies. Plants with hallucinogenic properties such as belladonna, mandrake, henbane, and Datura have all been around for centuries, and have serve various purposes other than just the psychoactive effects. Henbane has been used as part of a cure for alcoholism, as well as being used to poison hamlets father. The ancient Chinese used Datura to
The man sat down in the old and decaying chair, his physique stiff with anxiety. It didn’t take a penny to see how frightened he was, Emme saw this even with her old, shrunken eyes. The man was facing her, but not looking at her. He reminded her of a shameful child who’s afraid to tell their parents that they broke a lamp while playing baseball in the house. Emme had a curious soul, but had no need to wonder why the man was nervous. After all, she was declared insane after she murdered fifteen people
Georgia O’Keeffe, The White Flower (White Trumpet Flower), 1932, Oil on canvas, San Diego Museum Of Art. This painting is an enlarged and up close flower called a Datura - Jimson Weed, shaped like a trumpet, hence the name White Trumpet Flower, and is poisonous. The flower is white with a lavender tint on its petals but, in the painting, it is fully white with a subtle yellow color on the bottom of the flower. What this work is all about, that is the same with all of O’Keeffe’s flower paintings,
Two characters in “Red Lotus of Chastity” Devasmita and the Nun, both have some similarities with Machiavelli’s concepts in “The Prince”. Through the narrative, both characters strive to follow Machiavelli’s concept of being the fox and the lion. However, in the turn of events, only Devasmita is victorious in being both the fox and lion while the nun is portrayed as a power greedy lion dressed in a fox clothes. The Machiavelli concept of being a lion and fox means that to attain victory in the battlefield
This scientific study was conducted by Peter E. Ekanem, Dare S. Sunday, and Kidanemariam Gaim. This is a study regarding Datura stramonium (DS), a tropical plant of the nightshade family that has hallucination properties and is used for recreational drug purposes. The research investigated the effects of the consumption of high doses of DS seeds on the expression of cAMP response element-binding protein (CREB) in the frontal cortices or rats. This experiment may reveal the role of CREB proteins on
Devasmita and the nun, two characters in Somadeva’s “The Red Lotus of Chastity”, employ the same concept from Machiavelli’s “The Prince”. Both Devasmita and the nun attempt to follow Machiavelli’s concept of being a lion and fox. However, only Devasmita succeeds in being both animals while the nun is merely a power hungry lion trying to dress up in a fox costume that did not fit. This concept of being a fox and lion means that to succeed in your ‘battle’ a person must be a cunning, deceitful fox