English: Devil’s Fig, Prickly Nightshade
Hindi: Kantakari, Ringani
Malayalam: Kantakarichunda-കണ്ടകാരിച്ചുണ്ട
Wild Eggplant is an evergreen spiny spreading shrub, usually growing 50 cm, stem spread the ground and have many branches, both stems and leaves are full of covered with sharp white throne, bark is green in color, flowers are bluish-white,Fruits are green with white line over it, globose turns orange when it ripe.
Leaf Arrangement
| Shape-Palmate | Margin-Entire | Venation-pinnate |
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Useful plant parts:
Whole plant, fruit
Medicinal uses:
Treatment of hyperactivity, colds and cough, diabetes, pimples, skin diseases, and leprosy, worms, cold, fever, dysuria, muscular pain, urinary bladder problems.
Chemical contents:
Solanocarpine,solanocarpidine,chronogenic acid, caffeic acid, potassium nitrate, carpesterol, sitosterol,solamargine, quercetin, isochlorogenic acid, neochronogenic acid, solasodine.
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