Nagelfar
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I've read somniferine is an exclusive alkaloid to the Ashwagandha plant (poison gooseberry, winter cherry: taxonomic name = Withania somnifera) in the Solanaceae family, along with ashwagandhine & ashwaganidhine. Anyone have any structure information on those (three bolded) alkaloid drug-chemical structures in question and any information on activity? It also contains various steroidal lactones; withanolides (specifically withaferin A); tropine & cuscohygrine that are active. But I am interested in the ones unprecedented to any other known plant (yet to be isolated, found, extracted or identified anywhere else)