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  Erowid Datura Vault
Datura is a woody-stalked, leafy herb growing up to 2 meters.
It has a long history of use both in S. America and Europe and is known for causing delerious states and poisonings in uninformed users.
Datura and Brugmansia Species as Sacred Plants and Medicines
www.erowid.org /plants/datura/datura.shtml   (241 words)

  
  Sacred Datura
Datura is still widely used in the Caribbean for similar or all of the reasons as well, and called there "herbe aux sorciers" (herb of the sorcerers) among the various French speaking islanders.
When Datura is used in a Native American ritual, it is always under the guidance of an individual of certain tribal spritual resolve such as a Medicine person or tribal elder.
Although typically connected with Peyote in the minds of the general public, one of the formost users of Datura was Carlos Castaneda who claimed its use as an apprentice to a Yaqui Indian shaman-sorcerer named Don Juan Matus that is said to have studied under a Diablero.
www.angelfire.com /indie/anna_jones1/datura.html   (860 words)

  
  Datura
The seed capsules of the Datura species are typically the size of a walnut and are covered with thorns that may become quite sharp and spiky as the plant matures.
A Datura preparation known as Dhƒt, was used both to bestow a fearless frenzy in the worshipers as they attacked their victims (usually travellers), and to drug these prior to the sacrifice.
Man-t'o-lo is the Chinese name for Datura (Datura alba) and a Taoist legend refers to the plant as the flower of one of the pole stars.
www.b-and-t-world-seeds.com /Datura.htm   (4137 words)

  
  Herbs Datura   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Datura is referred to in ancient Indian literature as, shivashekhera because the flowers are believed to be associated with Lord Shiva.
The dried leaves and seeds of datura are used in the British and the United States Pharmacopoeia as antispasmodic under critical conditions of asthma and whooping cough.
A paste made with datura seeds, liquorice, saffron and milk cream is heated in coconut oil thoroughly till the solid mass converts to a charred powder.
www.indiangyan.com /books/therapybooks/Herbs_That_Heal/datura.shtml   (706 words)

  
 Drago Cactoid - Datura
Datura are native to the Southwestern United States and Mexico.
Datura tend to be large plants, and depending on the species one tiny seedling may cover an area over 4 feet by 4 feet.
Datura meteloides is a low-grower, covering a largish area but rarely exceeding 3 feet in height.
dragocactoid.com /datura.html   (835 words)

  
 Rich Grow Datura
Datura ceratocaula (torna loca, a semiaquatic species), ferox (chinese thornapple), leichhardtii (australian thornapple), and quercifolia (oak-leaved datura) seem to be the most "patient".
Daturas are self-fertile, meaning seeds are produced through fertilization of the flower from its own pollen or from pollen of a flower from the same plant.
Daturas are poisonous if eaten and should be kept out of reach of people (young or old) who cannot, do not or will not understand their danger.
www.abads.net /Rich_Sanders/rich_grow_datura.htm   (949 words)

  
 Datura
Datura, also known as Angel's trumpet, may be just the plant for you.
Datura can be started indoors in flats or pots or seeded directly into the garden.
Used by native Americans to induce visionary dreams, all parts of Datura are considered toxic and should not be grown in areas frequented by children.
www.colostate.edu /depts/CoopExt/4DMG/Flowers/Annuals/datura.htm   (390 words)

  
 Datura spp. | Thornapple   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Datura discolor is a smaller, 1-2 foot high annual with grayish-green, several inch long, ovate leaves.
Datura discolor is limited to elevations below 2,000 feet, but on occasion it has been reported up to 4,000 feet.
Chemistry: tropane alkaloids for Datura discolor, very similar for D. meteloides: hyoscine (scopolamine), apohyoscine, norhyoscine, hyoscyamine, meteloidine, tropine, atropine, littorine, and cuscohygrine; flavonoids: quercetin and kaempferol Medicinal Uses: Datura is one of the strongest analgesic herbs we employ.
www.tcbmed.com /Newsletters/datura.htm   (824 words)

  
 YouTube - Tori Amos - Datura
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Datura - Devotion (performance at RoxyBar - 1993)
Tori Amos- Take To The Sky (Sessions at West 54th)
www.youtube.com /watch?v=WX_dwuF-6oY   (405 words)

  
 MySpace.com - Datura - Bologna - Electronica / Club / Trance - www.myspace.com/daturaalteraloshombres
Datura is a magical plant that grows in North Mexico plateaus.
Datura is used from Yaqui shaman in their rituals in order to approach itself the Acquaintance.
Datura are fascinate from the mystery, the religions and from all those cognitive processes that they go beyond the science, the Datura try through their music to approach themselves and to explore the worlds parallels and basements that crowd the mind.
www.myspace.com /daturaalteraloshombres   (416 words)

  
 Datura
There are many species of Datura varying in height from 3 - 10 feet, all sharing the stunning flowers.
One of the usual modalities in the Datura experience is that of mystical flight--an out-of-the-body sensation.
A very powerful Shamanic tool, it was sometimes said to take years of navigating the spiritual worlds to be ready to learn from Datura and in many cultures its use was forbidden to all but the high priests.
ethnogens.com /datura.html   (162 words)

  
 Datura stramonium   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Datura was known to the ancient Hindu physicians who regarded it as intoxicant, emetic, digestive, and heating.
Datura leaves are an integrated part of herbal cigarettes available in Indian markets Chief alkaloids of D.
Germination and seedling vigour of chickpea as affected by allelopathy of Datura stramonium L. Int.
www.hort.purdue.edu /newcrop/CropFactSheets/datura.html   (513 words)

  
 Antipixel | Blog | Datura
Datura Inoxia (sacred datura) is native to the American Southwest, and has a long history of shamanic use among the Zuni, Navajo, and several other tribes.
Datura stramonium (thornapple, jimsonweed) is a mostly eastern species and was probably introduced to the Americas from the West Indies.
Datura is a powerfull plant that should only be used for religious rituals, rites of passage etc. It makes me nervous to hear that many of you are actively seeking to get high recreationally from the plant I highly advise against this.
www.antipixel.com /blog/archives/2002/10/28/datura.html   (7834 words)

  
 The News - fall 1992 - Sacred Datura
Datura was brought to North America for medicinal use by colonists who settled in Jamestown.
The datura is a nocturnal plant and is tended by several different types of insects: beetles, bees and moths.
During the nineteenth century, datura was marketed as “Spanish Herbal Cigarettes.” Many cultures have taken advantage of datura’s antihistamine and bronchio-dilating properties; used as a smoke, it can relieve the symptoms of asthma, but it can kill you too.
www.gcrg.org /bqr/5-4/sacreddatura.html   (871 words)

  
 Datura
All parts of all Datura plants are poisonous and can be fatal if ingested.
Datura is a member of the Potato (Solanaceae) Family, also called the Deadly Nightshade Family.
All species of Datura have long been used by native peoples of the Southwest in puberty and other ceremonies because of the plant's halucinogenic alkaloids.
www.desertusa.com /aug97/du_datura.html   (257 words)

  
 HEREINMYHEAD.COM | lyrics | to venus and back | datura
Men can be dangerous, like in the song Datura about how sometimes they can bring you gold and sometimes they can be the bearer of poison.
I: The song Datura that I was having a listen to - I've been reading up on it.
"Datura is this plant that if you put too many leaves in to steep -- even though it does have altered-state potential in a big way, like bella donna--if you don't steep it correctly, I hope you like to fly..."
www.hereinmyhead.com /collect/venus/venus9.html   (386 words)

  
 MySpace.com - Datura - Need Help for Booking - St Dié, FR - Death Metal - www.myspace.com/daturaweb
Grace au très bon accueil reçu tant par les médias que par le public, Datura enchaine une série de concerts, tout en composant activement en vue de son premier album.
Datura investit les locaux de la Cave Musique à Macon du 27 août au 17 septembre, avec de nouveau Mickael Valesy aux commandes.
Datura was created in 2001,with members of the death-metal band called Death Certificate.Datura is currently composed of Alex(guitar,backing vocals),Guillaume(drums),Julian(bass),Christophe(guitar) and Alban(vocals).
www.myspace.com /daturaweb   (743 words)

  
 emilycompost - Celebrating gardening, plants, and weeds
Datura stramonium is used in South American rituals as a hallucinogen.
Daturas (da- TOOR-a) what you have - a stramonium is native to the tropics but widely naturalized as a weed in North America all parts are poisonous.
A: You have done very well to have a datura live in your office, This plant is tropical and requires tons of sunshine and perhaps it is surviving but not thriving.
www.emilycompost.com /datura.htm   (2766 words)

  
 Datura: Angel's Trumpet or Devil's Apple?
Datura and its twin, brugmansia, were all the rage on garden forums a couple years back.
Datura discolor, a single white type with a purple center, is also striking.
Daturas and brugmansias seem to be similar in all other aspects.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/historical_plants/93974   (435 words)

  
 Datura Growing Information from Alchemy Works
In his book, Psychedelic Shamanism, Jim DeKorne noted that datura and other tropane-containing plants are often associated with an aggressive feminine force (he references Kali) that has been viciously repressed in the West and that this might well be the reason so many people have negative experiences with these plants.
Datura has been used to hex and to break hexes, to produce sleep and induce dreams, and for protection from evil (perhaps in the fire against fire sense).
The main difference between datura and brugmansia is that datura is an annual herbaceous plant (doesn't produce wood) and the flowers face up; brugmansia is a perennial bush or tree and the flowers hang down (in Europe, brugmansias are often referred to as daturas).
www.alchemy-works.com /datura_info.html   (1054 words)

  
 Datura - bio   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Datura is a 3-piece rock and roll band from northern New Jersey.
Forget anything you may have heard about Datura, because while it was probably all true, the old appellations no longer apply to Datura.
The time has finally come for Datura to rock so fast that they burst into flames and their faces melt, though they'll settle for selling a few* cds.
www.datura.info /index.php?page=bio   (118 words)

  
 DATURA: A Native American Symbol and Vehicle of the Divine
The use of Datura for prayer and enlightenment is similar to the use of Peyote cactus by Native Nations of the American southwest and northern Mexico.
Since Datura’s striking white flowers can clearly be seen dotting the hills and roadsides on moonlit nights, there is a long-standing association among southern California Indian people between Datura and the moon.
Along with the moon, Datura is also thought to have a connection with ocean tides and the passage of the time.
www.wadsworth.com /religion_d/special_features/symbols/datura.html   (739 words)

  
 Datura and Brugmansia Seeds from the Digital Raingardens Seed Catalog
Datura are short-lived and are grown as an annual in many zones.
A most interesting type of datura, from Mexico with wavy margined leaves and bearing a profusion of comparatively small, violet or lavender flowers.
A bit more spreading than other daturas, loaded with flowers that can be from white, pink to light lavender, usually a light pink to white, but the color is uncertain until the plant blooms.
www.raingardens.com /seedpage/datura.htm   (862 words)

  
 My Brug is a Datura
I received word from a famous gardening expert that the way to tell Brugmansia and Datura apart was in the loft of their flowers.
This was during a prolonged drought and heat wave and in the afternoon.
This confused state of affairs between Datura and Brugmansia was not the first time I underwent an unanticipated change of flora.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/garden_adventures/23286   (444 words)

  
 Datura
Datura seems to be Ayla's favorite plant, there are more references to it than to any other plant.
Datura is still used in modern medicine for the treatment of asthma, in homeopathy also for mental illnesses.
Ayla ended up (...) to prepare the datura more quickly (...) But Guban resisted drinking all that she felt he should, (...) but she wondered if part of the problem was his doubt whether she could prepare the datura properly.
phoenix.4u.org /aylasplants/plants/datura.html   (1205 words)

  
 Plant Viruses Online - Datura mosaic (?) potyvirus
Datura shoestring virus (DSV) differs from DMV in its failure to infect Datura stramonium, D. innoxia and Solanum nigrum.
Datura distortion mosaic virus (DDMV) differs from DMV in its failure to induce local lesions in Datura species and in being transmissible by aphids.
Datura species are known to be naturally infected by other potyviruses such as datura necrosis virus (DNV) (Badami and Kassanis, 1959), datura Colombian virus (DCV) (Kahn and Bartels, 1968), datura shoestring virus (DSV) (Giri and Agrawal, 1971) and datura distortion mosaic virus (DDMV) (Mali et al.
image.fs.uidaho.edu /vide/descr293.htm   (375 words)

  
 Datura, Angel's Trumpet
Datura is a succulent shrub with brittle wood native to Brazil, but some say the mountains of Chile and Peru.
Datura candida is rarely seen and sports a complex triple flower - a trumpet in a trumpet in a trumpet
Datura metel is a double bloom, purple trumpet in purple trumpet, much smaller and not nearly as dramatic as Datura aborea.
mgonline.com /datura.html   (299 words)

  
 Datura seeds and foliage. Stramonium, innoxia, ferox, metal, metel
Daturas are recognized especially by their striking, trumpet shaped flowers.
Daturas grow world wide through all warm and tropic climates.
It is now known to be a new and very rare strain of the triple purple bloomed datura resembling the variety "cornucopia" only Datura metal var.
www.salviaspace.com /daturao.htm   (207 words)

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