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  • From: Lucky Pittman <lucky.pittman@murraystate.edu>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Black nightshade
  • Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 11:20:46 -0600

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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