Plant Solanum dulcamara (Solanaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Bitter Nightshade; Bittersweet

How this plant is used

Medicinal

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List of plant chemicals.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Chemical Name	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
15ALPHA-HYDROXYSOLADULCIDINE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
15ALPHA-HYDROXYSOLASODINE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
15ALPHA-HYDROXYTOMATADENOL	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
15ALPHA-HYDROXYTOMATADIDINE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
2,4-METHYLENE-CHOLESTEROL	0	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
24-METHYLENE-CYCLOARTENOL	0	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
3,5-TOMATIDIENE	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
31-NOR-LANOSTEROL	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
3BETA-5-TOMATIDEN-OL	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-SOLADULCINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-SOLAMARINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ATROPINE	51	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SOLADULCINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SOLAMARINE	2	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BRASSICASTEROL	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAMPESTEROL	2	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHOLESTEROL	1	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CITROSTADIENOL	1	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CYCLOARTENOL	7	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Allergenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Analgesic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Androgenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anesthetic	1	Martindale's 29th
Angiogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anhydrotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anorexic	1	Martindale's 28th
Antiadenomic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Antiandrogenic	2	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antianoxic	1	Martindale's 29th
Antiarrhythmic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiasthmatic	1	Martindale's 28th
Antibacterial	2	Recently became Internat. J. Crude Drug Res. 28(1,2,3,4):1990, page 155.
Antibradycardic	1	Martindale's 28th
Anticancer (Bladder)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Breast)	2	Madhavi, D. L., Bomser, J., Smith, M., Singletary, K. 1998. Isolation of Bioactive Constituents from Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry) Fruits and Cell Cultures. Plant Sci., 131(1): 95-103.
Anticancer (Cervix)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Lung)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Prostate)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Skin)	1	Duke, 1992 *