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
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
Antiuveitic	1	Martindale's 30th
Antivertigo	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiviral	3	Duke, 1992 *
Apoptotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Artemicide	2	Jung, J.H., Pummangura, S., Chaichantipyuth, c., Patarapanich, C., and McLaughlin, J.L. 1989. Bioactive Constituents of Melodorum fruticosum. Phytochemistry. 29(5): 1667-1670. 1990.
Bronchodilator	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cancer-Preventive	3	Stitt, P. A. Why George Should Eat Broccoli. Dougherty Co, Milwaukee, WI, 1990, 399 pp.
Candidicide	1	Recently became Internat. J. Crude Drug Res. 28(1,2,3,4):1990, page 155.
Caspase-8-Inducer	1	Duke, 1992 *
Choleretic	1	Duke, 1992 *
CNS-Depressant	1	Martindale's 28th
CNS-Stimulant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Colorant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Contraceptive	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cytotoxic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Embryotoxic	1	Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Erythrocytolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Estrogenic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Febrifuge	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Fungicide	2	Duke, 1992 *