Mandrake (translation services) is the common name for members of the genus Mandragora belonging to the nightshade family (Solanaceae). Since Mandrake includes deli spacious hallucinogenic alkaloid tropane such as atropine, scopolamine apoatropine, hyoscyamine and the roots sometimes bifurcations them human figures are included to their roots has long been used in magic rituals seem, today also in neopagan religions such as Wicca and Germanic revivalism religions such Odinism .
Mandrake is the common name of the genus Mandragora officinarum, a plant that is called luffâh in Arabic, or both el-jinn (“djinn eggs”). The parsnip-shaped root is often branched. This root, you are on the surface of the ground a rosette of oblong-ovate to ovate, wrinkled, sharp, wavy, perforated whole leaves, some 50-40 centimeters (2.0 to 16 inches) long that looks like the tobacco plant. Some A-nodding flower stems spring from the neck with a white-green flowers, almost 5 cm (2.0 inches) wide, bulbous, juicy, orange-red berries produced similar, small tomatoes, which ripen in late spring. All parts of plant are poisonous mandrake. The plant grows natively in southern and central Europe and countries around the Mediterranean and in Corsica.
It had been a common folklore in some countries only mandrake grow where the semen of a hanged man dripped on the floor, it would seem the reason for the methods of the alchemists who “projected human seed into animal earth” are used. In Germany the plant (Übersetzungsdienst) as mandrake is known: the novel (later adapted as a film) Alraune by Hanns Heinz Ewers designed based on a soulless woman from semen of a hanged man, the title refers to the myth of the Mandrake origin (document translation services).
The genus consists of three types:

• Himalayan mandrake (Mandragora caulescens)
• Common mandrake (Mandragora officinarum)
• Turkmen mandrake (Mandragora turcomanica)

The long viewed as a distinct species autumn mandrake is in modern literature nurmehr out as a synonym for the commons mandrake (Mandragora officinarum).
In Golestan in Iran, the aromatic leaves and berries of the Turkmen mandrake be used as food. Nevertheless, it should be noted that all parts of the mandrake are very toxic. The consumption or use of only small amounts can result in death from respiratory paralysis result. The toxic effect caused by the alkaloids atropine, hyoscyamine and scopolamine.