5 Amazing Benefits of Yellow-Berried Nightshade

Solanum Xanthocarpum

Yellow-berried nightshade also known with its botanical name as Solanum xanthocarpum. This plant which grows in waste lands is a very spiny, bright-green herb. 

It produces several branches which are loaded with straight, yellow spines often exceeding 1.3 cm long. The spiny leaves which are 5 to cm long are ovate or elliptic in shape. 

The mid ribs and the nerves on the leaves are full of yellow sharp prickles. The flowers are purple in color and the petals are about 12 cm long. 

The fruit or berry containing numerous seeds are bright yellow or white in color and is about 1.3 to 3 cm in diameter.

Solanum Xanthocarpum Medicinal Use:

• An appetizer and laxative; strengthens and gives tone to the stomach; expels worms from the body; useful in bronchitis, asthma, fever, ozena which is an offensive-smelling discharge from the nose, painful or difficult urination, lumbago which is pain in the lumbar region of the vertebal column, pains, piles, diseases of the heart, congestion of the liver; as an expectorant for the control of cough; relieves muscular pains; for stone in the bladder; and against sterility in women.
• Boils and scabies.
• Sore throat.
• Toothache.
• Rheumatism.

How to Use the Yellow-Berried Nightshade:

• The decoction of the roots of the solanum xanthocarpum will take care of the disorders listed in section 1 of medicinal use.
• The decoction of the seeds will take cares of asthma, cough, boils and scabies.
• The juice of the berry is useful in sore throat.
• Fumigations with the vapor of the burning seeds of this plant are in high repute in the cure of toothache.
• The juice of the leaves of the yellow-berried nightshade is given with black pepper for the cure of rheumatism.

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