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
CYCLOARTENOL-24-DIHYDROLANOSTEROL	0	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
D-GALACTOSE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
D-GLUCOSE	1	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
D-XYLOSE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DIOSGENIN	7	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-SOLADULCINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-SOLAMARINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GRAMISTEROL	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOFUCOSTEROL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
L-RHAMNOSE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LOPHENOL	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LYCOPENE	16	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LYCOPHYLL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LYCOXANTHIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OBTUSIFOLIOL	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SOLACEINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SOLADULCAMARIDINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SOLADULCIDINE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SOLAMARGINE	9	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SOLANIDINE	5	Fruit	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