Solanum torvum Sw.
Family: Solanaceae
- Common name: Turkey Berry, susumber
- Assamese: Bhi-tita
- Bengali: Tita bagoon
- Chinese: 水茄
- Danish : Ærtenatskygge;
- Fijian : Kaisurisuri, Katai, Kausoni, Kauvotovotua, Soni;
- French : Aubergine Sauvage Épineuse, Fausse Aubergine, Aubergine Sauvage D’asie, Aubergine, Pois, Mélongène-Diable, Bellangère Bâtarde
- German: Pokastrauch, Teufels-Nachtschatten
- Guatemala : Güis
- Hindi: Bhurat, Bhankatiya
- Indonesian: Takokak
- Japanese: 雀茄子
- Kannada: Sundekkayi
- Malayalam: ആനച്ചുണ്ട Anachunda
- Marathi: Marang
- Sanskrit: ब्रह्टी Brihati
- Sinhala: Thibbatu
- Spanish: terongan
- Tamil: சுண்டைக்காய் Sundaikkai
- Telugu: ఉస్తికాయలు Ustikaayalu
- Thai: มะเขือพวง
- Tongan: Tisaipale
- Vietnamese: Cà dại hoa trắng
Description: Shrubs to 2 m tall. Stem densely stellate-hairy when young; prickles few, scattered. Leaves 7-14 x 5-10 cm, ovate, usually coarsely 2-3-sinulate, base obliquely subcordate, apex acute, stellately pubescent on both sides, dense on lower sides, chartaceous, scattered with a few prickles on midrib and on petiole; lateral nerves 4 or 5 pairs; petioles 1.5 - 3.5 cm long. Inflorescence supra-axillary, many-flowered corymbose cymes; peduncle to 5 cm long. Calyx tube 2-2.5 mm long, campanulate, lobes oblong. Corolla white, c. 2.5 cm across; lobes 5-6 mm long, ovate, pubescent outside. Berry 1-1.5 cm across, globose, pale green turning dull orange. Seeds discoid, smooth.
Cubans apply the leaf juice to pimples . Cubans drink root decoction 2–3×/day for cystitis and urethritis . Dominicans use young leaf infusion with . for infantile enterosis .. Dominicans use root infusion for gonorrhea . Garifuna poultice leaf and root decoction to bleeding, burns, rashes, sores, and wounds . Haitians massage crushed leaves and seed to correct fever . Haitians use leaf decoction as sedative and antispasmodic for gastralgia . Jamaicans drink leaf decoction for colds . Nepalese drop flower juice with salt water into eyes . Nepalese poultice ripe fruits onto the forehead for headache . Nepalese use plant juice for asthma, chest, cough, dropsy, gonorrhea, and rheumatism . Nepalese use root juice for vomiting due to weakness . Yucatanese regard leaf decoction as diuretic, narcotic, resolutive, and sudorific. [Duke's Handbook of Medicinal Plants of Latin America]
Plant—digestive, diuretic, sedative. Leaves—haemostatic. Fruits—useful in liver and spleen enlargement (cooked and eaten as a vegetable); decoction used for cough. Root—used for poulticing cracks in feet. [Indian Medicinal Plants An Illustrated Dictionary]
In Malaysia, a paste of roots of Solanum torvum Sw. is used to soothe cracked feet. In the Philippines, a decoction of roots is drunk to counteract poisoning and to curb bleeding after childbirth. In India, the fruits are used to treat swollen spleen and liver. [Medicinal Plants: Drugs For The Future?]
The leaves me used by some Jamaicans to make tea to improve the appetite. In making tea for colds the leaves are often mixed with those of other "cold bushes" such as Gossypium and Hyptis. [ Medicinal Plants of Jamaica]
Cubans apply the leaf juice to pimples . Cubans drink root decoction 2–3×/day for cystitis and urethritis . Dominicans use young leaf infusion with . for infantile enterosis .. Dominicans use root infusion for gonorrhea . Garifuna poultice leaf and root decoction to bleeding, burns, rashes, sores, and wounds . Haitians massage crushed leaves and seed to correct fever . Haitians use leaf decoction as sedative and antispasmodic for gastralgia . Jamaicans drink leaf decoction for colds . Nepalese drop flower juice with salt water into eyes . Nepalese poultice ripe fruits onto the forehead for headache . Nepalese use plant juice for asthma, chest, cough, dropsy, gonorrhea, and rheumatism . Nepalese use root juice for vomiting due to weakness . Yucatanese regard leaf decoction as diuretic, narcotic, resolutive, and sudorific. [Duke's Handbook of Medicinal Plants of Latin America]
Plant—digestive, diuretic, sedative. Leaves—haemostatic. Fruits—useful in liver and spleen enlargement (cooked and eaten as a vegetable); decoction used for cough. Root—used for poulticing cracks in feet. [Indian Medicinal Plants An Illustrated Dictionary]
In Malaysia, a paste of roots of Solanum torvum Sw. is used to soothe cracked feet. In the Philippines, a decoction of roots is drunk to counteract poisoning and to curb bleeding after childbirth. In India, the fruits are used to treat swollen spleen and liver. [Medicinal Plants: Drugs For The Future?]
The leaves me used by some Jamaicans to make tea to improve the appetite. In making tea for colds the leaves are often mixed with those of other "cold bushes" such as Gossypium and Hyptis. [ Medicinal Plants of Jamaica]
