A collection of safe and effective home remedies and herbal cures from Ayurveda .

Sunday, May 1, 2011

Black night shade plant -Solanum nigrum-an intro

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This plant is very common and found as a weed in wastelands and near crops.
Tamil name: Manthakalai
Telugu + Sanskrit name : kamanchi
Makoi in Hindi

This plant has many medicinal properties but the effect of the black-orange red berries is still very controversial.
The leaves are cooked and eaten in many parts of the world,some research claims that it has cancer -fighting potency too.

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