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Bittersweet nightshade is one of the plants of the family called Solanaceae, in Latin the name of this plant will sound as follows: Solanum dulcamara L. As for the name of the family of bittersweet nightshade itself, in Latin it will be like this: Solanaceae Juss.
Description of bittersweet nightshade
Bittersweet nightshade is known under numerous popular names: bear berry, crow berries, bud tree, worm, dog berry, night steppe, night shadow, licorice, doggy, magpie's earrings and chicken blindness. Bittersweet nightshade is a shrub endowed with a woody, creeping and tuberous rhizome, and at its very base there will be woody stems, the height of which fluctuates between thirty and one hundred and eighty centimeters. The leaves of this plant are oblong-ovate and endowed with a heart-shaped base, they will be pointed and endowed with well-developed petioles. Flowers of bittersweet nightshade are rather small in size, they gather in drooping inflorescences that will be paniculate. Such flowers are painted in lilac or purple tones. The fruit of the bittersweet nightshade is a bright red berry. It is noteworthy that the fresh leaves of this plant are endowed with a very unpleasant odor.
Under natural conditions, this plant is found on the territory of Central Asia, Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus, Daursky and Angara-Sayan regions of Eastern Siberia, Barnaul and Irtysh regions of Western Siberia, as well as in all regions of the European part of Russia, with the exception of only the Lower Volga and Zavolzhsky regions. … For the growth of bittersweet nightshade prefers the shores of lakes, rivers, ponds and ditches, as well as places among shrubs in forests and wet meadows.
Description of the medicinal properties of bittersweet nightshade
Bittersweet nightshade is endowed with very valuable healing properties, while it is recommended to use the fruits and herbs of this plant for medicinal purposes. Grass includes leaves, flowers, and stems.
The presence of such valuable medicinal properties is recommended to be explained by the content of alkaloids and steroids in the roots of this plant, while alkaloids and tigonenin are found in the aerial part of this plant. The following steroids are found in the stems of bittersweet nightshade: stigmasterol, cholesterol, sitosterol, isofucosterol, brassicasterol and campesterol. The leaves of this plant contain steroids, triterpenoids, flavonoids, phenol carboxylic acids, higher fatty acids, higher aliphatic hydrocarbons and alkaloids.
Bittersweet nightshade is used as a very effective diuretic, diaphoretic, expectorant for whooping cough, bronchial asthma, various respiratory diseases, as well as for bronchitis, upper respiratory tract catarrh, rheumatism, kidney disease and scrofula. It is recommended to use a tincture prepared on the basis of the herb of bittersweet nightshade and dizziness, epilepsy and pulmonary tuberculosis. The herb infusion and alcoholic tincture of this plant are endowed with anti-inflammatory, choleretic and diuretic effects: such medicinal agents are recommended to be used for jaundice and inflammation of the bladder. For various skin diseases, it is recommended to use the leaves and young shoots of bittersweet nightshade: such diseases include psoriasis, dermatitis, eczema and exudative diathesis. Outwardly, an infusion based on the herb of this plant should be used for baths with lichen, furunculosis and itchy dermatitis. In addition, the infusion of the herb of this plant will also be endowed with a diuretic effect.
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