Stramonium

{str a-mo’ ’-ne-um). The Datura stramonium, James town or Jimson weed, a plant of the order Solanacese. The leaves (Stramonii folia, U. S. P., B. P.) and seeds (Stramonii semen, U. S. P., Stramonii semina, B. P.) contain two alkaloids, daturin, identical with atropin, and hyoscyamin. The action of S. resembles that of belladonna. It is used in asthma, dysmenorrhea, neuralgia, rheumatism, and pains of syphilitic origin. In asthma the leaves may be smoked in a tobacco-pipe. Locally S. is employed as an ointment or cataplasm in irritable ulcers and inflamed surfaces. Dose of the seeds gr. j (0.065) > °f trie leaves gr. ij-iij (0.13-0.20). Extractum stramonii seminis, U. S. P. (Extractum stramonii, B. P.). Dose gr. Y^-% (0.010-0.016). Extractum stramonii seminis fluidum, U. S. P. Dose rr\j-ij (0.065-0.13). Tinctura stramonii seminis, U. S. P. Dose Tt\v-xxx (0.32-2.0). Strangling. See Strangulation. 602