What are the healing use of Angel's Trumpet?
Angel's Trumpet is a type of flower that resembles a long lily with large white flowers. It is also called Jimsonweed, Thorn Apple or the Devil's Trumpet, the botanical name of this flower is Datura Stramonium and is a member of the Solanaceae Plants, along with tomatoes, eggplant and potatoes. Flowers and leaves of angel trumpets are poisonous if they are used in large quantities. It has hallucinogenic and healing properties in smaller quantities that are properly prepared.
Angel's Trumpet is a permanent shrub that came to North America from South America, but probably originated in Asia, where it has been used in India for centuries. It is a tropical plant that is suitable only for warm areas that do not experience freezing temperatures. The flowers bloom at night and emit a strong, sweet scent. Although it is a shrub, this plant is often trimmed to look more like a small tree, with bushier growth removed to encourage more flowers.
in the Family Solanaceae along with Angel's Trumpet are Nightshade and Mandrake, two poisonous medicinals that can be used as hallucinogens. Some scholars believe that Angel's trumpet boiling has been inhaled by Oracles in Delphi to trigger their vision. Like bananas and morning fame, Angel's Trumpet has a place in a modern teenage tradition as a cheap way to get high. If flowers or seeds are consumed, smoked or drunk as tea in small quantities, one can experience lethargy and hallucinations, but suitable doses are not well known. Overdose can cause difficulty breathing and delirium, usually requires emergency medical intervention.
Today, some prescription drugs are made to treat asthma extracts from Angel's Trumpet, but in addition, the plant is generally considered too toxic to conventional drugs. Until 1968 Vusa was available several over -the -counter painkillers that contained the extracts of the Angel trumpet but the governmentThese drugs were banned because they were used recreationally as hallucinogens.
Angel's Trumpet in Ayurvedic medicine is used to treat asthma, malaria and earaaches. The leaves are burned for the treatment of asthma and the smoke is inhaled. The fruit is burned with cow droppings and crushed for the treatment of malaria and oil prepared from a flower mixed with other herbs can be used directly in the ear for pain relief. Angel's trumpet can also be used in hunters to treat burns and pain from rheumatism.