Solanum americanum

Taxonomy

Phylum: Magnoliophyta

Class: Magnoliopsida

Order:Solanales

Family: Solanaceae

Genus: Solanum

1. black nightshade
2. terung meranti
3. terung para cicit 
4. terung perat

Plant part use - The whole plant is considered medicinal and the leaves are eaten as vegetable in Southeast Asia. The leaves and ripe fruit has been used as herbal treatments for toothache, skin lesions, burns, scabies and anxiety, in the Middle east, North Africa, India and Southeast Asia.

Traditional use - The plants are used as an emollient and antalgic in itching, burns and neuralgic pains, and are also considered expectorant and laxative. The leaves are said to have sedative and healing properties and are applied to cuts and ulcers. A decoction of the leaves is used to treat yaws. The fruit is considered to be a cure for diabetes. In Papua New Guinea, cooked leaves and stems are given to infants suffering from diarrhoea. In China, cooked young shoots are considered to be corrective and cooling, to increase the virility of men and to benefit menstrual disorders. A decoction of the leaves or seeds is used to treat wounds, cancerous sores and as an astringent. Diuretic properties are also attributed to the plant. The leaf juice is used against pain caused by an inflammation in the kidneys and bladder and by virulent gonorrhoea. In India, the leaves are used to treat inflammations on any part of the body, rheumatic and gouty joints and skin diseases.

• https://globinmed.com/medicinal_herbs/solanum-americanum-mill/#r2
• https://www.cabidigitallibrary.org/doi/10.1079/cabicompendium.117222#:~:text=Leaves%20arranged%20spirally%20to%20almost,toothed%2C%20glabrous%20or%20sparsely%20pubescent.