Re: Datura or Brugmansia--Yes, very poisonous

Hello all:

I remember my mother using an herb mixed with tobacco which she would burn in 
a small dish, place a newspaper "tent" over her head and inhale the smoke to 
help her asthma.  It worked.  That was in the 1930s.  Now I think that she was 
using stramonium.

If you will go to www.google.com and make an advanced search with a 
requirement in "all the words" box of "stramonium asthma"  you may find 2,220 results 
including the British Pharmaceutical Codex and the US Pharmacopoeia.

Regards, Clark

Clark Weston
El Paso, Texas USDA Zone 8
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In a message dated 12/15/2003 10:47:53 AM Mountain Standard Time, 
Lyman@lyman-dixon.freeserve.co.uk writes:

> Incidentally I had a girl friend who used to take the odd Datura seed in gin
>  for migraine and toothache she said it worked brilliantly but it was scary,
>  like a train hurtling through a dark tunnel until she passed out. I had to
>  stop her doing it as the effects are cumulative and cardiotoxic. I always
>  believed it was one seed as a pain killer, three to completely knock 
oneself
>  out and any more to make the effects permanent , howeverone of my customers
>  proudly told me she had taken twelve in gin........but God, she looked it!
>  Anyway I have got a large coffee tin of the things for if and when the
>  cancer comes back, I would rather slip away surrounded by my own toxic
>  plants than the viruses and toxic dirt of a modern British hospital.
>  Meanwhile restaurateurs have been warned not to put holly with berries on
>  their Christmas puddings in case some total prat eats them and sues. So
>  happy Christmas everybody
>  


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