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| BINOMIAL NAME | Solanum virginianum |
| COMMON NAME | Thorny night shade, yellow berry night shade, Thai eggplant. |
| FAMILY | Solanaceae |
| HABIT | Herb |
| TAMIL NAME | கண்டங்கத்திரி |
| MORPHOLOGY | Thorny night shade is a herb which is erect or creeping, sometimes woody at base 50-70 cm tall copiously armed with sturdy, needlelike, broad-based pickles, prickly along veins, leaves are unequally paired, leaf blade ovate, margin or pinnately parted, lobes unequal , sinuate, apex acute,. Inflorescense elongate racemes, sepal tube Is bell shaped, flowers blue-purple, petals ovate and fruiting pedicel with prickles and sparse, stellate hairs, berry pale yellow. |
| MEDICINAL PROPERTIES | • Boiled decoction of dried plant is prescribed for stomach and liver complimants • It is used for loosing weight. • It is used to treat respiratory problemand cures tuberculosis. • Free urination. |
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