STRAMONIUM  , in See also:

• MEDICINE

medicine, a See also:

• DRUG
• DRUG (from Fr. drogue, a word common in Romance languages, cf. Span. and Ital. droga; the origin of the word is obscure, but may possibly be connected with Dutch droog, dry)

drug obtained from the leaves and seeds of the Dalura stramonium . Both contain an See also:

• ALKALOID

alkaloid known as daturine . From the seeds is made extractum stramonii . The tinctura stramonii is made from the leaves . The physiological See also:

• ACTION

action of stramonium resembles that of See also:

• BELLADONNA (from the Ital. belle donna, " beautiful lady," the berries having been used as a cosmetic)

belladonna, except that stramonium relaxes to a greater extent the unstriped muscle of the bronchial tubes; for this See also:

• REASON (Lat. ratio, through French raison)

reason it is used in See also:

• ASTHMA (Gr. avBµa, gasping, whence lio-Ogaivw, I gasp for breath)

asthma to relieve the bronchial spasm . Cigarettes made of stramonium leaves may be smoked or the See also:

• TINCTURE (Fr. teinture, Lat. tinctura, tingere, to dye, stain)

tincture may be taken internally . Frequently the leaves powdered together with equal quantities of the powdered leaves of the Cannabis Indica and See also:

• LOBELIA

lobelia mixed with See also:

• POTASSIUM [symbol K (from kalium), atomic weight 39.114 0=16)]

potassium nitrate are burned in an open dish . The preparation gives off dense fumes which afford See also:

• GREAT

great See also:

• RELIEF

relief to the asthmatic See also:

• PAROXYSM (Med. Lat. paroxysntus, from the Gr. wapotbvety, to make sharp, odes)

paroxysm . Numerous patent " See also:

• CURES

cures " for asthma contain these ingredients in varying proportions . Daturine is used as daturinae sulphas . In acute See also:

• MANIA

mania it acts like hyoscyamine in producing See also:

• SLEEP (0. Eng. slcepan; Ger. schlafen; cf. Lat. labi, to glide, and " slip ")

sleep .. In large doses stramonium is a narcotic See also:

• POISON

poison producing the well-marked stages of exaltation of See also:

• FUNCTION

function, diminution of functional activity, and later Ioss of function, sinking into See also:

• COMA (Gr. K(.7)

coma and See also:

• PARALYSIS, or PALSY (from Gr. aapal,6a , to relax; Wycliffe has palesy, and another old form of the word is parlesy)

paralysis .