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Very toxic to be used only under the supervision of a qualified practitioner.
Annual or biennial plant cultivated growing to 0,90 m of which one uses leaves and flowers.
Henbane has been used since antiquity as analgesic, specially to alleviate pain affecting the urinary tract or the abdomen.
Also : Tooth aches, insomnia, coughs, abundant menstruation, ophthalmias, gout, various neuralgic pains, sciatic nerves or rheumatic, asthma, sedative, antispasmodic.
Henbane, Hyoscyamus niger, stinking nightshade, black henbane
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