Datura is a genus of nine species of highly poisonous, vespertine-flowering plants belonging to the nightshade family. They are commonly known as thornapples or jimsonweeds, but are also known as devi
Sacred datura
Datura metel 'Fastuosa' (Hindi: काला धतूरा kāla dhatūra – "black datura")
Deliriants are a subclass of hallucinogen. The term was coined in the early 1980s to distinguish these drugs from psychedelics such as LSD and dissociatives such as ketamine, due to their primary effe
Datura
…Mandragoreae, named for the famous Mandragora officinarum, most of which are considered traditional witches' herbs and poisons. Datura is considered a deliriant. Due to the potent combination of anticholinergic substances it contains, Datura intoxication typically produces the effects of anticholinergic delirium…
The toxic berry of Atropa belladonna which contains the tropane deliriants scopolamine, atropine, and hyoscyamine.
A woman diagnosed with chronic dementia, 1896
Preparation for the Witches' Sabbath by David Teniers the Younger. Note on the left, an older witch reading from a grimoire, while anointing the buttocks of a young witch about to fly to the sabbath upon an inverted besom, with a candle upon its twigs
Datura stramonium (jimsonweed) 4-valved seed capsule