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Re: atropine
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Subject: Re: atropine
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From: rimmer@macatawa.org (Tom Zennie)
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Date: Sun, 16 Jun 1996 08:53:50 GMT
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.herbs
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Organization: Zen Sheep Farm
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References: <31BE1727.38BB@hevanet.com> <31c26911.579788@news.eunet.fi>
HeK@hetta.pp.fi (Henriette Kress) wrote:
>On Tue, 11 Jun 1996 18:02:31 -0700, in alt.folklore.herbs solis
><solis@hevanet.com> wrote:
>>Does anyone know the proper herb/alcohol mixture for making atropine? Thanks in
>>advance.
>Get a good manual on pharmacognosy, read up on extracting atropine from Atropa
>belladonna (or possibly other plants), get the needed chemicals, go to a
>laboratory, and extract your atropine.
>I'm curious - now that you have it, what will you do with it?
>Henriette
>--
First off, you can't MAKE atropine. What you can do is EXTRACT it
from particular plants that contain the alkaloid. Where do you live
(ie what country) ? Jimson weed which grows all over the USA contains
a moderate amount of atropine as well as scopolamine. Bella donna is a
European plant. Another question what are you going to use the
atropine for? Remember these alkaloids are very poisonous and at very
low concentrations ie, micrograms to low miligrams amounts.
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Dr Tom Zennie
Zen Sheep Farm
7723 Quincy St
Zeeland, Michigan
e-mail:rimmer@macatawa,org
http://macatawa.org/~rimmer/drzbiog.htm