Typhonium trilobatum Health Dictionary

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(L.) Schott.

Family: Araceae.

Habitat: Peninsular India, and from Yamuna eastwards; also grown in South India.

Siddha/Tamil: Karu Karunai Kizhangu, Karunai Kizhangu.

Action: Tuber—applied as poultice on scirrhous tumours (fresh tuber is very acrid and a powerful stimulant). Eaten with bananas, the tubers relax the bowels and provide relief in haemorrhoids (tubers become innocuous on heating or drying).

The tubers contain carotene, folic acid, niacin, thiamine, sterols and beta- sitosterol.
Health Source: Indian Medicinal Plants
Author: Health Dictionary

Solanum Trilobatum

Linn.

Family: Solanaceae.

Habitat: Deccan Peninsula.

English: Climbing Brinjal.

Ayurvedic: Alarka, Valli- kantakaarikaa, Kantakaari-lataa.

Siddha/Tamil: Toothuvilai.

Action: Berries and flowers—a decoction is used for cough and chronic bronchitis.

The steroidal alkaloid, solasodine, is present in fruit and leaf of the plant (air-dried fruits and leaves from Coim- batore gave 0.96 and 0.36% respectively). A crude glycoalkaloid mixture, isolated from the plant material, contained about 20% beta-solamarine. The plant exhibited antimitotic, antitu- mour, antibacterial and antifungal activities and showed promising results in two cancer test systems—KB cell and sarcoma 180 in mice.... solanum trilobatum

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