“Kantakari”
Solanum xanthocarpum
Botanical Name:
Solanum xanthocarpum

Kantakari consists of mature, dried whole plant of Solanum surattense Burm. f., (Synonym Solanum xanthocarpum Schrad. & Wendl), Family Solanaceae

Common Name(s) in English & Indian Languages
Sanskrit: Kantakari Nidigadhika
Assamese: Birkulitita
English: Yellow-Berried Nightshade, Thorny Nightshade
Guajarati: Bhoyaringani
Hindi: Kateli, Katai Ringani
Kannada: Chikchundi, Cikkasonde, Gulla, Kallante, Kantakari, Kante, Nelagulla
Malayalam: Kandankattiri
Marathi: Bhonyaringani, Bhuiringani, Kanteringani
Oriya: Vyaghri
Tamil: Kandankattiri
Telugu: Pinnamulaka, Nelamulaka, Vankuda
Urdu: Katai, Koteli Khurd

Botanical description:
Annual herb, erect, 25-100 cm high, pubescent with simple hair. Stems are often angular, sparsely-pubescent. The blades of the leaves are ovate, the bases are cuneate, 4-10 and 3-7 cm wide, pubescent, entire or coarsely dentate, the apex is obtuse. Inflorescences are extra-axillary umbels, the calyx cup-shaped, the corolla is white, 8-10 mm long , the lobes ovate-oblong, pubescent abaxially, ciliate spreading. Filaments are 1-1.5 mm long, anthers oblong, 2.5-3.5 mm. Fruiting pedicels are strongly deflexed. The fruiting calyx is applied to the berry. The fruits are dull black, globose, 8-10 mm in diameter.

Parts used:
Dried roots

Major chemical constituent:
Glucoalkaloids and sterols

Therapeutic uses:
• Tastelessness (Aruci)
• Asthma (Svasa)
• Fever (Jvara)
• Cough (Kasa)
• Chronic rhinitis (Pinasa)
• Hoarseness of voice (Svarabheda)
• Intercostal neuralgia and pleurodynia (Parsvasula)
 


 
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