Solanum nigrum L
Family Name: |
Solanaceae |
Local Name/ |
Kachmach, Mako/Common nightshade |
English Name: | |
Flowering Period: |
March-December |
Status: |
Uncommon |
Part Used: |
Whole plant |
Habit/Habitat: |
A small herb, grows in waste places near houses and |
alongside cultivated fields and roadsides in loamy soil. | |
Distribution: |
Pakistan: Found everywhere in waste places. World: |
Cosmopolitan. |
- Fig. 3.85 Solanum nigrum L
Family Name: Solanaceae
Description: A small herb up to 2 ft tall. Stem erect, branched, herba ceous above, woody below, and green. Leaves simple, opposite, petiolate; oval-shaped, hairy, green, and developed on main stem and branches. Flowers white. Fruit rounded berry, orange-red to black with many white seeds (Fig. 3.85).
Medicinal Uses:
Collection: 125 g of fresh leaves is collected by men, women, and children 12-40 years old, in summer (April-August).
Recipes: 125 g of fresh leaves is boiled in 3-4 cups (750-1000 mL)
of water daily for 10-15 min. When 1 cup (250 mL) of water remains, then it is filtered with a piece of cloth; used to treat swelling, skin diseases, inflamed and painful parts of body and to clean wounds and mouth sores. Half a cup (125 mL) of decoction (at one time) is applied 3-4 times per day for 6-7 days for mouth sores.
Diseases Cured: Body and joint swelling, skin diseases, mouth sores, inflamed and painful body parts; to clean wounds.
Ethnobotanical Young leaves are used as spinach (sag) and also used as Uses: fodder by goats, sheep, and cattle. Berries are edible.
- Fig. 3.86 Solanum surratense Burm, f
Family Name: |
Solanaceae |
Phytochemicals: |
Alkaloidal glycosides, solasonine, solamargine, |
B-solamargine, tigogenin, solasodine a-solasonine, | |
saccharopine, 2-aminoadipic acid, and hemagglutinins [70], | |
3.4.68 Solanum surattense Burm. f. | |
Family Name: |
Solanaceae |
Local Name/ |
Mohri, Kateli, Maraghona/Indian solanum |
English Name: | |
Flowering Period: |
March-December |
Status: |
Uncommon |
Part Used: |
Whole plant |
Habit/Habitat: |
A branched herb, grows mostly in waste places in dry rough |
clay. | |
Distribution: |
Pakistan: Found in all four provinces. World: North Africa, |
South and Southeast Asia, Australia, and Polynesia. | |
Description: |
A prostrate, branched, prickly herb up to 1 m in length. |
Stem prostrate, herbaceous, dark green, with yellow | |
thorns and branches. Leaves simple, dark green, peti- | |
olate, elliptic-oblong, wavy, with yellow thorns. Flowers | |
bluish purple, 2-4 in number, with yellow anthers. Fruit | |
yellow, globose berry with many seeds (Fig. 3.86). |
Family Name:
Solanaceae
Medicinal Uses: Collection:
Recipes:
Diseases Cured:
Ethnobotanical
Uses: Phytochemicals:
250 g of fresh plant material is collected by men and women 20-40 years old, in summer (March-July). First, thorns are removed by keeping the plant on a light fire. Then it is cut into small 1-2-in. pieces.
200 g of plant material is boiled in 1 L of water daily for 20-25 min. Five to six small amount black peppers and 2-3 tsp (20-25 g) of common salt is also added. When X L of water remains, it is filtered with a cloth or filtration pot. This decoction is given to cattle and patients suffering from indigestion, fever, cough, stomach disorders, and asthma and to improve hunger. For children, X cup (125 mL) of decoction (at one time) is given with bread 2-3 times per day for 6-7 days. For adults, 1-2 cups (250-500 mL) of decoction (at one time) is given with bread 2-3 times per day for 8-10 days. For cattle: 1 cup (250 mL) of decoction if given (at one time) twice daily (morning-evening) for 4-5 days.
Fever, cough, stomach disorders, asthma, and indigestion in cattle.
The plant is used as fodder by camels. It is also cooked as a vegetable.
Agluco-alkaloid solancarpine, solacarpidine, and sterol "Carpesterol" [28]._

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