Steinmetz:Duboisia
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Duboisia myoporoides
- Also known as (or relevant to)
- Family
- Solanaceae
- English Names
- Natural Habitat
- South Queensland
- New South Wales (Australia)
- New Caledonia
- Part(s) Used
- Cortex Duboisiae
- Folia Duboisiae
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- Constituent(s)
- duboisine
- which probably is a mixture of hyoscyamine and hyoscine = scopolamine (alkaloids)
- Action
- bark: hypnotic; leaf: used as a substitute for Folia Belladonnae. In small doses
- the bark and the leaf are sedative
- in large doses toxic
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