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
Spermicide	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Tachycardic	1	Martindale's 28th
Teratogenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Toxic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Transdermal	1	Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
Tumorigenic	1	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Ubiquiot	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Ulcerogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Vasodilator	1	Merck 11th Edition