CN1[C@@H]2CC[C@H]1C[C@H](C2)OC(=O)[C@@H](CO)C3=CC=CC=C3 The pharmacological targets through which this compound exerts its effects.
Living organisms in which this compound is naturally found.
European perennial whose glossy black berries and dull-green leaves contain a lethal cocktail of tropane alkaloids — long associated with witchcraft, flying ointments, and Atropos, the Greek Fate who cuts the thread of life.
Cosmopolitan weedy annual whose spiny seed pods conceal an extremely dangerous mixture of tropane alkaloids — producing intense, fully formed hallucinations indistinguishable from reality, often followed by amnesia and lasting physical harm.
Sticky, foul-smelling Eurasian biennial whose dusky cream-and-purple flowers conceal high levels of hyoscyamine and scopolamine — an ingredient of pre-Christian European ritual, classical antiquity's Oracle at Delphi (per some scholars), and the witches' Sabbath of medieval folklore.
Mediterranean perennial whose forked, vaguely human-shaped root has accumulated more folklore per gram than perhaps any plant in the European tradition — from the Hebrew Bible to Pythagoras, Pliny, and Harry Potter.
- Rätsch 2005
- Müller-Ebeling et al. 2003
