Solanum nigrum Uses
Posted on | June 29, 2010 | No Comments
Food
Although a large number of reports of poisoning by the consumption of plant parts of the Black Night Shade are aware, there is also a large number of documents relating to the use as food. First, the leaves are used as spinach-like vegetable, on the other hand, the ripe berries eaten as fruit. Many people report that the leaves are cooked with the cooking water is repeatedly changed or replaced with milk, to prevent possible poisoning. A preparation variant Malawi includes the addition of potassium or sodium carbonate, vegetable, peanut butter and salt. have to a Kenyan folk beliefs that have newborns whose mothers during pregnancy cooked nightshade leaves eaten, especially dark eyes and smooth skin.
The ripe fruits are eaten mainly in parts of Africa, but also in North America, India and China, Russia and Kazakhstan. In North America, called the fruit as “Wonder Berry” and boiled them jam.
Folk medicine
Medical applications of the black nightshade are known from many cultures. The collected during the flowering season and dried herb is used in folk medicine as a medicine for stomach and bladder spasms, whooping cough, an external use is recommended for eczema, oozing lichens, itching, hemorrhoids, fissures, bruises and abscesses. In homeopathy the whole, fresh, flowering plant in disorders of the central nervous system is used.
According to African folk medicine, children, the black nightshade eat as a vegetable, are spared from diseases such as marasmus and kwashiorkor.
Poisonous plant
By the presence of solanine and other alkaloids, especially in the unripe fruit, are described repeatedly poisoning. In young children, some of the really low solanine is also ripe fruit sufficient to produce symptoms of poisoning. The symptoms can while vomiting, diarrhea, breathing difficulties, his elevated heart rate and renal irritation. Moreover occur anxiety, convulsions and paralysis, as well as a rise in body temperature, followed by dropping below normal. In case of heavy poisoning death occurs from paralysis of the central respiratory system.
Since some chickens dying after eating poisonous, unripe berries, has become established for the way the name Hühnertod. Poisoning of grazing animals may be attributed in part to the high nitrate content of plants. If so, the milk of affected animals tastes bitter.
Solanum nigrum, in Germany, and his preparations because of the toxicity not be used for the production and treatment of cosmetic substances.
Source: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwarzer_Nachtschatten
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