SV: Digest Number 2451

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Isn't sclopolimin related to sclopolimine the sea sickness or motion medicine?

Is it in the scroplimine family of plants like the monkey flower in California?

This family's flowers are not simple but fancy?You don't know the scientific

name?

 

Are Thoresen <arethore wrote:Hi all,

in Norway we have an old plant called SCOPOLIA, and it contains scopolamin.

Do anybody know the history of that plant?

 

Are

 

Are Simeon Thoresen

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http://home.online.no/~arethore/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

, " Are Thoresen "

<arethore@o...> wrote:

> Hi all,

> in Norway we have an old plant called SCOPOLIA,

 

Are, I can't be of much help to your inquiry regarding the history of

scopolia use in the West. But here is some info from the Chinese

world on it.

 

The chemical profile of scopolia is similar to that of datura and

belladonna. The alkaloid scopolamine was named after this plant. Of

course, yang2 jin1 hua1 (datura) is the most commonly used tropane

alkaloid-containing plant in Chinese medicine. Yang2 jin1 hua1 has a

very long history of use worldwide. Like other tropane

alkaloid-containing plants, it is notorious for its powerfully

disorienting effects on consciousness and its high toxicity.

 

The information below is translated from the Zhong Yao Da Ci Dian.

 

Dong1 lang4 dang4 is Japanese scopolia (Scopolia japonica Maxim). It

is warm, with a numbing/tingling flavor (wei4 ma2) and severe

toxicity. It enters the heart, liver, and lung channels. It resolves

tetany and settles pain, and constrains sweat and astringes the

intestines. It treats all types of pain, as well as manic agitation

of the essence-spirit, tremors from alcohol poisoning, swelling and

toxin of welling-abscesses and sores, anthrax, and bleeding from

injuries. It can be also be rubbed on the body to treat lichen.

Dose: internally as a powder: 1–3 fen (0.37 g–1.11 g), taken with wine

(alcohol). Externally, it is used as a wash or ground and rubbed

topically.

 

San1 fen1 san1 is angled scopolia (Scopolia acutangula C.T. Wu et C.

Chen). It is bitter, astringent, and numbing with a warm nature and

severe toxicity. It is used as an anesthetic to settle pain. It is

indicated for stomach pain, bone fractures, wind-damp pain, and knocks

and falls. It is taken internally as a powder or a decoction at a

dose of 1–3 fen; it is ground to a powder and mixed with alcohol for

external application.

 

Sou1 shan1 hu3 is Chinese scopolia (Scopolia sinensis Hemsl.). It is

bitter, acrid, warm, and severely toxic. It effuses the exterior and

dissipates cold, soothes the sinews and quickens the network vessels,

and relieves pain.

 

Eric Brand

[Guest guest]

Hi all,

in Norway we have an old plant called SCOPOLIA, and it contains scopolamin.

Do anybody know the history of that plant?

 

Are

 

Are Simeon Thoresen

arethore <arethore

http://home.online.no/~arethore/