Origin

Throughout tropical parts of India, in waste places.

Action:

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.

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Origin

Jamaica

Folk medicinal uses

Under the name of sousumba tr.e berries of both species (Solanum mammosum L.& Solanum torvum Sw.) provide a vegetable eaten with salt fish. 1T seems probable that the leaves of both are collected indiscriminately and made into a tea which is used chiefly as a cold remedy.

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Origin

Jamaica

Folk medicinal uses

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 (John Charles).

1) Khare, C.P./ Indian Medicinal Plants. -- Nueva Dheli: Springer, 2007 . - p 615.

2) Asprey, G.F; Phylis Thornton/ Medicinal plants of Jamaica. Parts I & II. – p. 26.

3) Asprey, G.F; Phylis Thornton/ Medicinal plants of Jamaica. Parts III & IV. – p. 69.