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Black nightshade berries are sweet and sour, a wild fruit often eaten in childhood; solanine poisoning can cause death within 24 hours

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When I was little, I loved going out with a few friends to dig up cogongrass roots and look for this sweet fruit to eat! We were used to calling it "heiduluer," but actually it also has a high-end, impressive name, "black nightshade." Black nightshade is also known as bitter herb, heiduluer, goufuzi,...

When I was little, I loved going out with a few friends to dig up cogongrass roots and look for this sweet fruit to eat! We were used to calling it heiduluer, but actually it also has a high-end, impressive name, "black nightshade"

Black nightshade is also known as bitter herb, heiduluer, goufuzi, bitter nightshade, little eggplant, tiandidou, niaoguicao, houhongzi, dipaozi, heitiantian, tianqiezi, tiantianqie, erzhui cai, and so on. It has spherical berries that turn blackish-purple when ripe. Black nightshade is an annual herbaceous plant, with the whole plant reaching 30-120 cm tall; the stem is upright and much branched; the ovate or heart-shaped leaves are alternate and nearly entire; in summer it bears small white flowers, 4-10 in umbel-like cymes.

Black nightshade contains toxic substances such as solanine and solanine alkaloids. Although it can be eaten raw, when eating it, it must be blanched and soaked in boiling water to remove the toxic substances before it can be eaten. Black nightshade can treat acute nephritis, bruises and sprains, erysipelas, chronic bronchitis, and other symptoms. After blanching, black nightshade can be chopped to make dumpling filling, or used in cold dishes. Besides that, it can also be stir-fried with eggs, or simply stir-fried and eaten; the taste is actually quite good.

Black nightshade has strong antioxidant properties, and cancer patients are well suited to eat it. Cancer is usually caused by a combination of heat toxin, blood stasis, yin deficiency, and qi stagnation. Heat toxin is usually caused by external toxins entering the human body. The whole plant is used as medicine to treat digestive tract cancer, lung cancer, and so on.

Research has found that black nightshade has an inhibitory effect on mouse cervical cancer U14, sarcoma S180, and the solid form of Ehrlich ascites tumor. Compound black nightshade injection has a clear inhibitory effect on the proliferation of mouse liver cancer (H22) ascites-type cancer cells, with a cancer inhibition rate of 87.4%. At the same time, the activities of phosphodiesterase and Na+-K+-ATPase on the surface of cancer cell membranes both decreased. The microvilli on the membrane surface noticeably receded. The total alkaloids extracted from the dried green fruits of black nightshade had an inhibition rate of 40%-50% on transplanted animal tumors.

Suitable people for black nightshade

People with a healthy, balanced constitution can all take black nightshade. Black nightshade has the effects of clearing heat, detoxifying, invigorating blood, and reducing swelling. It mainly treats boils, carbuncles, erysipelas, bruises and sprains, chronic bronchitis, and acute nephritis. It is used for sores, carbuncles, and swelling toxins, skin eczema, difficult urination, senile chronic bronchitis, excessive vaginal discharge, prostatitis, and dysentery. Therefore, people suffering from these diseases can also eat it.

Contraindications for black nightshade

When the whole black nightshade plant is decocted and taken, the toxicity is mild.

Solanine is toxic and strongly irritating to the gastrointestinal mucosa. Oral administration of 200 mg causes sensory hypersensitivity, drowsiness, and difficulty breathing; large doses can cause vomiting and diarrhea. Poisoned animals die within 24 hours. Hemolytic effect. The toxic reactions mainly manifest as bleeding around the eyes, nasal cavity, and oral cavity, as well as bloody pleural effusion and ascites.

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