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* Despite serious safety concerns, black nightshade has been used for stomach irritation, cramps, spasms, pain, and nervousness. | * Despite serious safety concerns, black nightshade has been used for stomach irritation, cramps, spasms, pain, and nervousness. | ||
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Revision as of 13:00, 21 January 2018
Other Names : Crève-Chien, Garden Nightshade, Herbe à Gale, Herbe aux Magiciens, Herbe Maure, Houndsberry, Kakamachi, Kakmachi, Long Kui, Makoi, Morelle Noire, Myrtille de Jardin, Petty Morel, Poisonberry, Raisin de Loup, Solanum nigrum, Tomate du Diable, Tue-Chien, Yerba Mora.
Black nightshade is a plant. Originally, black nightshade was called “petit (small) morel” to distinguish it from the more poisonous species, deadly nightshade, that is known as “great morel.” You may hear black nightshade mistakenly referred to as “petty” morel, instead of the correct term, “petit” moral. People use the whole black nightshade plant including leaves, fruit, and root to make medicine.
Special Precautions of Black Nightshade
- Black nightshade is UNSAFE to take by mouth. It contains a toxic chemical called solanin. At lower doses, it can cause nausea, vomiting, headache, and other side effects. At higher doses, it can cause severe poisoning. Signs of poisoning include irregular heartbeat, trouble breathing, dizziness, drowsiness, twitching of the arms and legs, cramps, diarrhea, paralysis, coma, and death.
- There isn’t enough information to know whether it is safe to apply black nightshade directly to the skin.
- Pregnancy and breast-feeding: It’s UNSAFE to take black nightshade if you are pregnant. It might cause birth defects.
Benefits and uses of Black Nightshade are
- Despite serious safety concerns, black nightshade has been used for stomach irritation, cramps, spasms, pain, and nervousness.
- It is used topically as a treatment for herpes zoster, psoriasis, hemorrhoids, and deep skin infections (abscesses). The bruised, fresh leaves are put on the skin to treat swelling (inflammation), burns, and ulcers.
