Datura metel
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Datura metel is a shrub-like annual or short-lived, shrubby perennial, commonly known in Europe as Indian thornapple, Hindu datura, or metel and in the United States as devil's trumpet or angel's trum
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Datura metel 'Fastuosa' triple flower
D. metel 'Fastuosa' (flash photograph taken at night).
D. metel 'Fastuosa' showing glossy, purple-black stems. Note double (nested) corollas of the type depicted in image of Chola bronze Nataraja in section above.
Chinese herbology
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Chinese herbology or Chinese materia medica is the theory of traditional Chinese pharmacotherapy, which accounts for the majority of treatments in traditional Chinese medicine. It is analogous to othe
Datura metel
…the drug as the tool of "mere novices", implying that an experienced strangler should have no need of such an aid to murder. Datura metel is one of the 50 fundamental herbs used in traditional Chinese medicine, where it is called yáng jīn huā (洋金花). However, the ingestion of D. metel in any form is dangerous and should be…
Dried herbs and plant portions for Chinese herbology at a Xi'an market
Chinese pharmacopoeia
A traditional Chinese herbal decoction (湯劑/汤剂)
Dried seahorses like these are extensively used in traditional medicine in China and elsewhere.