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Makoy

Makoy

Botanical Name Solanum nigrum
Common Name Makoy
Family Solanaceae
Part-Used Whole plant.

Description:
It is distributed through out dry parts of India up to 800 m altitude.

Active Compounds:
Five steroidal alkaloids viz, SN-0, SN-1, SN-e, SN-3, SN-4 were isolated and characterized as solanine.

Medicinal Properties:
Leaf is bitter, alternative, sedative, diaphoretic, diuretic, hydragogue, expectorant. Fruit is alterative, tonic, diuretic, depurative, diaphoretic, vulnerary, and digestive.
Uses: edema, fever and cough, gonorrhea, heart disease (accompanied by leg and foot swelling), hemorrhoids, inflammatory swellings, enlarged liver, skin diseases, enlarged spleen, painful, swollen testicles.

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