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.
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Chemical Name	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
SOLASODINE	18	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
STIGMASTEROL	12	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TIGOGENIN	1	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TOMATID-5-EN-3BETA-OL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TOMATIDINE	2	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
YAMOGENIN	0	Plant	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
Anticarcinomic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticholinergic	1	Borchard, R. E., Barnes, C. D., and Eltherton, L. G. 1991. Drug Dosage in Laboratory Animals: A Handbook. (3rd Ed.) The Telford Press, Inc., P. O. Box 287, Caldwell NJ 07006.
Anticholinesterase	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antidote (Anticholinesterase)	1	Martindale's 29th
Antidote (Black Widow)	1	Martindale's 29th
Antidote (Lobelia)	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antidote (Muscarine)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antidote (Mushroom)	1	Martindale's 30th
Antidote (Organophosphorus)	1	Martindale's 29th
Antidote (Poison Gas)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antidote (Tetrodotoxin)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiedemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiemetic	1	Martindale's 29th
Antiemphysemic	1	Martindale's 29th
Antienuretic	1	Martindale's 28th
Antiestrogenic	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antifatigue	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antifeedant	3	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Antifertility	2	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antigonadotrophic	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.