lāʻau hānō
/ lā.ʻau hā.nō /1. n., Asthma medicine.
2. n., Jimson weed (Datura stramonium 🌐), a cosmopolitan weed, related to nānāhonua (Brugmansia candida 🌐), a coarse annual herb with white or pale purple or blue trumpet-shaped flowers 5 to 10 cm long and spiny fruits about 5 cm long. The plant is strongly narcotic and poisonous. A drug called stramonium, extracted from dried leaves and flowering tops, is used to treat asthma.
- References:
- Neal 750.
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