Indian Night Shade, Poison Berry

Botanical name - Solanum indicum
Family - Solanaceae

An erect leafy annual. Plant juice is given and applied locally in chronic skin diseases. Leaf poultice applied on eruptive skin, ulcers and burn. Hot leaves applied on enlarged scortum. Decoction of plant used for washing inflamed, irritated and painful body parts. Paste of plant applied on ulcers, pustules, suppurating chancres, severe burns and herpes.