[NAFEX] Black nightshade
Lucky Pittman
lucky.pittman at murraystate.edu
Mon Dec 6 12:20:46 EST 2004
At 07:58 PM 12/3/2004 -0600, Donna wrote:
> There are other toxins in this family of course, not just nicotine, but
>also in the carolina horse nettle there is the basis for the drug
>scopalamine. It was a drug used during childbirth, if I remember correctly
>it's the one that didn't actually stop the pain, the women screamed bloody
>murder, but afterward they didn't remember the pain, or the birth,... or the
>baby.
Hmm... Was reading a National Geographic magazine this weekend - saw an ad
for a transdermal scopalamine patch as an aid/preventative for motion sickness.
LLP
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