- Also known as (or relevant to)
- Family
- Solanaceae
- English Names
- Scopolia
- Japanese Belladonna
- Russian Belladonna
- Natural Habitat
- Central Europe (especially Eastern Hungary
- Carpathian mountains)
- South-Western Russia
- India
- Part(s) Used
- Radix Scopoliae carniolicae
- Folia Scopoliae carniolicae
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- Constituent(s)
- hyoscyamine
- hyoscine
- scopolamine
- atropine
- cholesterin
- Action
- cerebral sedative
- diuretic
- narcotic
- mydriatic
- toxic; used as substitute for Belladonna. The root of the Japanese Scopolia japonica and of other tropical species is used for the same purposes
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