SCIENTIA.

In a chapter of the Odyssey, Odysseus (the protagonist of the story) and his crew found themselves on the mysterious island of Aeaea. In the story, Aeaea is a Greek island located near the Greek coast and surrounded by the Mediterranean sea. Whilst desperately searching for food and resources on the island, Odysseus’s crew stumbled upon a palatial home. Little did they know that the home belonged to the sorceress Circe, fabled daughter of the goddess of magic. As the crew entered Circe’s home, Circe welcomed them with a feast. She made them a potion of cheese, barley meal, and yellow honey, but she had also mixed the food with baneful drugs that would cause the crew to suffer a sort of amnesia that led them to forget their native land. After consuming the drug, the crew also suffered a degree of hallucination where they perceived one another as pigs. Coincidently, scientific findings have discovered that a similar herb was present on a Mediterranean island. The herb was scientifically known as Datura stramonium and is commonly known as Jimson Weed, whose effects include pronounced amnesia as well as hallucinations, resulting from the difficulty to distinguish imagination from reality. This suggests that Circe was no sorcerer and in fact a resourceful  chemist who knew how to utilize local plants. Now let's delve into the scientific details of the herb and how its fascinating components are capable of causing amnesia.