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

Common Names

Black Nightshade

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
2(S)-2-AMINOADIPIC-ACID	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
26-O-(BETA-D-GLUCOPYRANOSYL)-22-METHOXY-25D-5-ALPHA...CCO	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALKALOIDS	0	Fruit	not available	1010.0	-0.69	Duke, 1992 *
ALKALOIDS	0	Leaf	not available	4310.0	-0.32	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-SOLAMARGINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ASCORBIC-ACID	112	Leaf	110.0	4067.0	-0.07	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CAROTENE	53	Leaf	1.0	110.0	-0.66	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SOLAMARGINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM	28	Leaf	1999.0	14400.0	-0.28	Duke, 1992 *
CARBOHYDRATES	0	Leaf	64000.0	560000.0	-0.41	Duke, 1992 *
CAROTENE	0	Fruit	3600.0	5500.0	2.21	Duke, 1992 *
CHACONINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHOLESTEROL	1	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CITRIC-ACID	23	Leaf	not available	50000.0	1.98	Duke, 1992 *
D-GALACTOSE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
D-XYLOSE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DESGALACTOTIGONIN	1	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DIOSGENIN	7	Fruit	4000.0	12000.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Leaf	4000.0	53000.0	-0.07	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
Antiakathisic	1	Martindale's 29th
Antialcoholic	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiallergic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antialopecic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antialzheimeran	2	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antianaphylactic	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antiandrogenic	5	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antianemic	1	Martindale's 29th
Antianorectic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antianxiety	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiaphthic	1	Martindale's 28th
Antiarabiflavinotic	1	Martindale's 28th
Antiarrhythmic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiarteriosclerotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiarthritic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antiasthmatic	3	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiatherosclerotic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antibackache	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antibacterial	4	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiberiberi	1	Duke, 1992 *