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Medicinal use of Solanum Xanthocarpum

Pooja Rathore*, Sameer Bhagyawant, Neha Gupta

Solanum xanthocarpum is used in Ayurveda to treat many health issues. It is a thorny plant that grows on the ground and is abundantly found in open areas, roadsides and wastelands. It is commonly known as choti kateri or Ringini and its English name is Wild eggplant, Yellow berried nightshade. All the parts of this plant keep the medicinal value and have the potential to treat a large no. of diseases such as common cough and cold, fever, muscle ache, kidney stone, liver enlargement etc. This review aims to widen the use of Solanum xanthocarpum in the field of medicine. There are three species of Solanum xanthocarpum known they are Solanum virginiannum Linn (chota kateri), Solanum Bangui lam (bada kateri), and Solanum lasiocarpum (white kateri). It has many properties like antiasthmatic, hepatoprotective, anticancerrous, antifertility, anti-inflammatory, hemolytic activity, antibacterial and antifungal antifungal. It possesses minimum hemolytic properties and also has antidiabetic and antioxidant properties. They can also be utilized as an alternative method to combat bacterial infections because they are a significant source of phytochemical compounds with significant curative applicability against the human pathogen. The fruit extract possesses antimicrobial and antifungal activity and the chemical used for extraction are ether, petroleum, chloroform, dichloromethane, ethyl acetate, acetone, methanol and water.