Datura METEL L.
| Synonym : | Brugmansia waymanii Paxton Datura alba Rumph. ex Nees Datura dubia Rich. Datura nigra Hassk. |
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| Bangla Name : | Dhutra, Dhutura. |
| English Name : | Datura, Thorn-apple. |
| Family : | Solanaceae |
| Disease : | Earache, asthma, piles, insanity, fever, diarrhea and skin diseases. |
| Description : | A coarse, shrubby annual, 0.9-1.2 m high. Leaves 15-20 cm long, ovate, acute, entire or with few large teeth or lobes. Flowers solitary, calyx 7.5 cm long, tubular, corolla about twice as long as the calyx, tubular, widend at the mouth, purple or white, often double. Capsules subglobose, nodding, covered all over with numerous, straight, sharp prickles. |
| Distribution : | All over Bangladesh in road sides and other fallow lands. |
| Chemical Constituents : | Principal constituents of the plant are a large number of tropane alkaloids including hyoscyamine, hyoscine, littorine, acetoxytropine, valtropine, fastusine, fastusinine, a number of withanolides and various tigloyl esters of tropine and pseudotropine. F |
| Uses : | The plant as a whole has narcotic, anodyne and antispasmodic properties. Leaves are used as a local application for rheumatic swellings of the joints, lumbago, sciatica, neuralgia, painful tumours and glandular inflammations, such as mumps, used externall |
| Habit : | - |