General Features of Deadly Nightshade ( Atropa belladonna L. )

Atropa belladonna is a perennial herbaceous plant that is systenatically found in Solanaceae family. The flowers are greenish purple, the leaves are oval, the fruits are black and bright. Deadly nightshade includes important alkaloids suvh as atropine, skololamine, belladonnaine, hypocaine,apoatropine. The most important chemical substance is atropine. ？ts active ingredient was isolated in 1809 and later classified as alkaloid by 1819. All parts of the plant contain alkaloids although the highest alkaloid ratio is in the green leaves and in the fruites. ？t is the desirable that the ratio of several coteche alkaloids is not less than 3 %. Deadly Nightshade is a plant that has been planted in many countries since ancient times due to ？ts active ingredients and the synthetically derived derivatives of atropine whis is the main alkaloid have important place in pharmacy. ？n our country Atropa belladonna has an important place among tropane alkaloids and herbal medicines