GRASS DWELLS (solanum nigrum)

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	GRASS DWELLS
	*solanum nigrum*

Name
GRASS DWELLS

Scientific Name
solanum nigrum

GRASS DWELLS

Family: Solanáceas.

Description: Annual herbaceous plant, with axonomorfa root of off-white color. The stem is herbaceous graft v. The leaves alternating, ovadas or rhomboid, are finished in end, green, pubescentes, slightly fragile. The flowers are white, pentalobuladas, arranging on apicales corimbos. The berries are green and black when arriving at the maturity, substantial, with numerous reniformes small seeds. It can reach the meter of height. It prefers the uncultivated places, the rubbish and any ground with abundant salts, from the coast to the mountain. It is collected in autumn.

Used parts: The whole plant.

Active Principles: Solanina, asparragina, routine, tannin, acids linoleico and palmítico, solangustina.

Farmacológica Action: Sedative, narcotic, emollient.

Way of use: Juice, tinctures, fluid and soft, oleolito extract.

Of Interest: This plant has been used from old by its sedative and paralyzing properties of the nervous innervaciones. He is not advisable in internal use by his toxicity. It can be used externally in the periartritis. The juice of the berries, evaporated, acts like analgesic in the odontalgias. This species is often used to prepare pomadas with local antálgica action.

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