All about Ayurveda & Medicinal Plants

Wild egg plant

Scientific name of Wild Eggplant: Solanum xanthocarpum

Name of Wild Eggplant in different languages:-

English: Devil’s Fig, Prickly Nightshade

Hindi: Kantakari, Ringani

Malayalam: Kantakarichunda-കണ്ടകാരിച്ചുണ്ട 

Plant description:

Kandakari-chunda-fruit-Wild Eggplant is an evergreen spiny spreading shrub, usually growing 50 cm, stem spread the ground and have many branches, both stems and leaves are full of covered with sharp white throne, bark is green in color, flowers are bluish-white,Fruits are green with white line over it, globose turns orange when it ripe.

 

 

 

Leaf Arrangement

Shape-PalmateMargin-EntireVenation-pinnate
 Palmate-resemble-a-hand

 Margin_Entire Venation-pinnate

Useful plant parts:

Whole plant, fruit

Medicinal uses:

Treatment of hyperactivity, colds and cough, diabetes, pimples, skin diseases, and leprosy, worms, cold, fever, dysuria, muscular pain, urinary bladder problems.

Chemical contents: 

Solanocarpine,solanocarpidine,chronogenic acid, caffeic acid,  potassium nitrate, carpesterol, sitosterol,solamargine, quercetin, isochlorogenic acid, neochronogenic acid, solasodine.

Wild Eggplant is the one of the ingredient in the Ayurveda medicines like:

Rajanyadi Choornam

Yavanyadi Choornam

Dasamoolarishtam

Dhanwanthararishtam

Parpatakarishtam

Ajamamsa Rasayanam

Dasamoola Panchakoladi Kashayam

Dhanwantharam Kuzhambu

Sahacharadi Kuzhambu

Kantakari Avaleha

Niruryadi Gulika

Ashwagandha Thailam

Brihat Dashamoola Tailam

Kumkumadi Tailam

Maha Vishagarbha Tailam

Mahanarayan thaialam

Vishnu Taila

Vyaghri Taila

Back to Top