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Botanical Name |
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Solanum indicum Linn. |
English
Name |
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Poison Berry |
Synonym(s) |
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Solanum anguivi Lim. |
Family |
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Solanaceae |
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General Info
| Description |
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A very common spinous shrub grows up to 1.8 m. high. Stem is much-branched, spiny, compressed, stout, often recurved; leaves are large, sub-entire or pinnatifid, ovate, sinuate or lobed; flowers are blue in racemes of cymose clusters; berries are globose, reddish when young or dark-yellow, 8 mm. diameter; seeds are smooth or minutely pitted, 4 mm. diameter. |
| Herb Effects |
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Antiemetic, aphrodisiac, astringent, cardiac tonic, carminative, cordial, resolvent (root); anticancer and stimulates the cardiovascular system (plant); expectorant and carminative (root and plant); toxic, laxative and digestive (fruits). |
Chemistry
| Active Ingredients |
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Solasonine, solamargine, solasodine, diosgenin, beta-sitosterol, lanosterol and tomatidenol (plant); carpesterol (seed oil). |
| Chemistry
of Active Ingredients |
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Name |
CAS# |
IUPAC Name |
Formula |
Structure |
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| Solasonine |
19121-58-5 |
Not Available |
C45H73NO16 |
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| Solamargine |
20311-51-7 |
Not Available |
C45H73NO15 |
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| Solasodine |
6106-33-8 |
Not Available |
C27H43NO2 |
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| Diosgenin |
512-04-9 |
Not Available |
C27H42O3 |
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| Beta-sitosterol |
5779-62-4 |
17-(5-ethyl-6-methyl
-heptan-2-yl)-10,13-
dimethyl-2,3,4,7,8,9
,11,12,14,
15,16,17
-dodecahydro-1H-cycl
openta[a]phenanthren
-3-ol |
C29H50O |
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| Lanosterol |
Not Available |
17-(1,5-dimethylhex-
4-enyl)-4,4,10,13,14
,17-hexamethyl-2,3,4
,5,6,7,10,
11,12,13
,14,15,16,17-tetrade
cahydro-1H-cyclopent
a[a]phenanthren-3-ol |
C31H52O |
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| Tomatidenol |
546-40-7 |
Not Available |
Not Available |
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| Carpesterol |
31077-78-8 |
[17-(4-ethyl-2-hydro
xy-1,5-dimethyl-hexy
l)-4,10,13-trimethyl
-6-oxo-1,2
,3,4,5,9
,10,11,12,13,14,15,1
6,17-tetradecahydroc
yclopenta[a]phenanth
re
n-3-yl] benzoate |
C37H54O4 |
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Pharmacology
| Medicinal Use |
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Toothache, colic and as an antiemetic (root); expectorant and carminative (root and plant); for asthma, fever, catarrh, chest pains, colic, cough (dry and spasmodic)and edema (plant). |
| Reference |
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 Chandel et al., Biodiversity in Medicinal and Aromatic Plants in India.
Uniyal et al., Medicinal Flora of Garhwal Himalayas.
Sharma, Classical Uses of Medicinal Plants. |
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