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Botanical Name |
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Solanum mammosum L. |
English
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Nipplefruit, Titty fruit, Cow's udder, Apple of sodom, Pichichio |
Synonym(s) |
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Solanum mammosissium Ramrez |
Family |
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Solanaceae |
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General Info
| Description |
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A herb which grows to a height of 1m. Stems are velvety and spiny at the apex. Thorns are 1.5cm long and 1.5mm in diameter. Leaves are simple, spiral, and exstipulate. Blade is hairy, 22cm × 12cm, and spiny, incised with about five pairs of secondary nerves. Flowers are purplish-yellow. Fruits are yellowish-orange, 5.7cm × 4.4cm, with five ovoid basal appendages which are 1.9cm × 1.6cm, glossy, and curiously shaped like some kind of plastic toy. |
| Herb Effects |
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Used as a narcotic (plant) |
Chemistry
| Active Ingredients |
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Solanidine, solasodine, solasonine (fruit) |
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of Active Ingredients |
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CAS# |
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| Solanidine |
Not Available |
Not Available |
C27H43NO |
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| Solasodine |
6106-33-8 |
Not Available |
C27H43NO2 |
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| Solasonine |
19121-58-5 |
Not Available |
C45H73NO16 |
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Pharmacology
| Medicinal Use |
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Used to treat athlete's foot, restlessness and irritability (plant); externally aginst scabies (fruit). |
| Reference |
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 Christophe Wiart. Medicinal Plants of Asia and the Pacific, P:273-274, CRC Press, June 2006.
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