HENBANE
Chapter: Entheogens
AKA: Bang (bangue, bengi), black henbane, castilago, devil's eye, fetid nightshade, goat's joy, henbell, henquale, hog bean, Hyoscyamus, Hyoscyamus niger, insana, lusquiamus, Jupiter's bean, poison tobacco, sakiru, sakrona, shakhrona, stinking nightshade, stinking Roger.
A member of the nightshade family, it was one ingredient in witches' brews in the Middle Ages.
Effects: Hallucinations involving all the senses, along with a feeling of drunkenness and sedation. Various ancient cultures have used it as an anesthetic, or to treat various disorders. It is chemically similar to datura, containing high amounts of hyoscyamine - similar to atropine, but twice as powerful - plus scopolamine and several other active alkaloids.
It has traditionally been used in combination with the fly agaric mushroom in Afghanistan, occasionally smoked with tobacco or marijuana in Kashmir and Pakistan, and added to alcoholic drinks by Indians in California and Mexico.
Precautions: Side effects include dry mouth with accompanying thirst, hot dry skin, fever, profuse sweating, dilated eyes, inability to focus the eyes on close objects, rapid heartbeat, dizziness, confusion, nausea, diarrhea, constipation, difficult urination, throbbing headache, problems with ejaculation, restlessness, disorientation, delirium, irrational behavior, blackout, and temporary amnesia. It is very dangerous.
Dosage: The seeds and dried leaves can be smoked, or the crushed root can be brewed into a tea.
Questions and Answers
What are the uses of Henbane in ancient AND modern medicine?, I need to know pretty much everything anyone know about this plant. I need to know the discovery, the appearance, the history, and definitely the useage in ancient and modern times. I also need to know how it is used in the field of medicine. What parts of the plant are used for medicine and how do people extract or exploit these parts. How are they administered into the body and information relative to these.
See here:
http://www.botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/...
for a good, comprehensive, and clearly laid out description of all uses of Henbane.
Have you taken Anthony Squirrell Thompson's advice to add Henbane to a salad and if so, how do you feel, A little bit tripped out, fancy trying to fly?(I guess the dead won't answer)
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/artic... Worrall-Thompson tells magazine readers to use poisonous weed Dr Crippen used to kill his wife in salads/article.do
Yes, he certainly got that one dangerously wrong didn't he - they had to publish notices in everything to stop people making themselves ill - or worse ! ! !
Natural plants such as dealdly nightshade, henbane, and datura contain drug substances that are called?, opoids
amphetamines
narcotics
deliriants
They contain significant quantities of a number of hallucinogenic alkaloids, so the answer is deliriants.
What came first? Henbane or the Eggplant?, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henbane
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggplant
they're both nasty to me so dont care much
What Can You Make With Coriander, Vervain, and Ginger Root, Damiana, Henbane, and Badger's Foot?,
Love Potion #9.
Versions 1-8 failed for lack of henbane.
A question about henbane?????, what does it look like and does it excret a yellow liquid when cut
Henbane is about 1-3ft tall, large, dark green soft and hairy leaves which are divided and kind of spiky looking. Has hairy stems and flowers like small trumpets which are usually pale yellow with lurid purple veins all over them. Flowers have a strong, bitter aroma and in fact smelling them is enough to make some people dizzy. Seeds are tiny and brown and are formed in a capsule which looks like a nut, coming after the flowers. Plant is biennial and dies after flowering and setting seed. Henbane is VERY toxic (contains tropane alkaloids like atropine and hyoscine) and can be fatal in even small doses. I believe the roots yield a yellow sap when cut (and possibly the stems too), but I would do a search on google images for an image of henbane and see if it looks like your plant. Be careful: it really is poisonous!!
egyptian henbane medicinal uses?, properties, chemistry and ecoogy .researches done on it
--> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&s...
Oh no I eat some Henbane!?, Ya,my grandmother grows henbane.I saw some of it in the fridge,and I was really thirsty.so there was some juice of it and I drank it.After that I was surfing the web,then an hour later i stumbled across something about werewolves and there was a special plant called "henbane"I was surprized that if you drank a potion of it you would be a werewolf.Am I going to turn ito a werewolf?
The better question is ... are you going to get sick??? Cause you do know it's poisionous right?? Your not gonna turn into a werewolf, but you may get sick.
Common effects of henbane use in humans include hallucinations, dilated pupils, restlessness, and flushed skin. Less common symptoms such as tachycardia, convulsions, vomiting, hypertension, hyperpyrexia and ataxia have all been noted.
Eating strange plants?, have you ever tried to eat hemlock, henbane, deadly knighshade, or posin sumac? will you get sick because i want to try it and i do not know the out come will i prehaps die?
. The toxic levels of hemlock are listed on the 'purdue' site:
"...A lethal dose for a horse is 4 to 5 pounds of leaves, cattle may be poisoned with 1 to 2 pounds, and sheep with a half pound or less ." ...
.... I imagine we're on the same level as sheep although our digestive systems are different. So MAYBE 6 ounces would kill you! An ounce or 2 MIGHT only make you sick.
But , for example, henbane is medical.
"...The leaves of Henbane do cool all hot inflammations in the eyes.... It also assuages the pain of the gout, the sciatica, and other pains in the joints which arise from a hot cause. And applied with vinegar to the forehead and temples, helps the headache and want of sleep in hot fevers.
Accidental cases of poisoning by Henbane are, however, not very common, as the plant has too unpleasant a taste and smell to be readily mistaken for any esculent vegetable ..."
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But there is NO advantage in testing yourself. Each poison has different toxic levels at different times in their growing cycle. Even the ground it grows in would effect its toxicity.
These plants usually taste terrible, and their acidic or alkoloid chemicals would probably burn your mouth and throat. DON'T do it.
Can U Help Me!!! This Is from Catherine called Birdy Can someone give me the definitions?, Confounded
Morsel
Dignity
Dissipated
Saracen
Henbane
Spurge
Contemplating
Apprentice
Confounded - amazed and confused
Morsel - small piece, usually of food
Dignity - respect. Pride in oneself
Dissipated - spread around.
Saracen - early name for Arabic peoples, esp. those who fought in the crusades.
Henbane - a plant. don't know more
Spurge - another plant
Contemplating - thinking deeply about.
Apprentice - one who is learning a trade by boeknig with and learning form a master in that trade.
Hope this helps
