Atropa belladonna - Classification, Ayurvedic Properties & Dosage

Dr Vikram Chauhan07 Dec, 2022Health

Belladonna is native to Eurasia. It is a kind of short herb with beautiful flowers that is bell-shaped, red coloured and gives fruits of Jet black colour. This shrub is very useful when used as its leaf because it gives a stronger and safer effect than the root, the seeds and the fruit of this shrub must be avoided because they can cause ill effects and atropine, hyoscyamine, and hyoscine (scopolamine), tropane alkaloids are the major chemical components of this shrub with these constituents this herb is called as more potent.