Datura can make people nude

Datura may have caused a monk to take off his clothes and perform strange actions in the forest in Germany last week.

On September 6, a resident discovered a nude man performing many strange acts in the forest near the city of Unterwossen. Unable to get close to the man to help, the other had told the police. When the police caught the man, they found his body cold, and the mind lost the ability to orient him, so he took him to the hospital. Here people knew he was a monk.

A datura.

Experts say the monk performed unusual actions because he ate berries when he camped in the forest, Livescience reported. The poison in berries causes hallucinations and partial body paralysis. So he could not find his way back to the tent.

The doctors in the hospital said that perhaps the monk ate the berries (Atropa belladonna). This is a fruit containing atropine, scopolamine and hyoscyamine - chemicals that can hallucinate and cause muscle paralysis.

They disrupt the functioning of the parasympathetic nervous system (or parasympathetic system). This nervous system governs unintentional activities such as digestion, heart beating and salivation. If the toxic concentration is low, the poisons have many pharmacological effects, such as treating stomach cramps, dizziness when moving and maintaining a stable heart rate during surgery.

But if the concentration of toxins is high, they will cause serious effects in the nervous system, possibly even causing death. Symptoms of high doses of intoxication include abnormal behavior, rapid or irregular heartbeat, redness, hallucinations, loss of cognitive ability, fever.