31, see text Hyoscyamus — known as the henbanes — is a genus of flowering plants in the nightshade family, Solanaceae.

Hyoscyamus means "hog-bean" in botanical Latin and was a name derogatorily applied to the plant by Dioscorides.

[3] The poisonous, narcotic henbanes were associated with witchcraft since earliest times.

Witches found them valuable especially due to their trance-inducing capabilities, and they were used in flying ointment rituals.

The leaves are made into a kind of cigarette to relieve asthma and other respiratory ailments.