INDIVIDUAL HERBS

Pharmaceutical Latin:	Herba Solani Nigri
Common English:	Black Nightshade Winter Cherry Herb Solanum

Taste	Temperature	Entering Meridians	Dosage
Slightly Bitter (Bitter) (Sweet)	Cold Slightly Toxic	Lung Stomach Bladder	15-30g tincture: 1-3ml

Actions	Indications/Syndromes
Clears Heat, resolves toxicity, invigorates the Blood and reduces swellings	Sores and abscess, pruritic sores and rashes, swollen and painful throat and cancer
Promotes urination, and unblocks painful urinary dysfunction	Hot, painful urinary dysfunction or edema with urinary dysfunction

CONTRAINDICATIONS

INCOMPATIBILITIES

HERB/DRUG INTERACTIONS

Fol. Isatidis Da Qing Ye Rz. Belamcandae She Gan (Lasiosphere/Calvatia) (Ma Bo)	Hb. Taraxaci Pu Gong Ying Flos Chrysanthemi Indici Ye Ju Hua (Hb.Violae) (Zi Hua Di Ding)	Hb. Schizonepetae Jing JIe Periostracum Cicadae Chan Tui
Acute, swollen and painful throat	Topically and internally for abscesses, sores and toxic swellings	Pruritic sores and rashes Itching of eczema
Hb. Scutellariae Barbatae Ban Zhi Lian	Sm. Plantaginis Che Qian Zi Rz. Alismatis Ze Xie Fol. Pyrrosiae Shi Wei
Cancers	Hot, painful urinary dysfunction Edema with urinary dysfunction

This herb also expels Phlegm, stops cough and alleviates itching.
The leaves are used topically for pemphigus and other toxic swellings. They reduce Heat, disperse Blood, suppress toxic effects of minerals and metals. It also expels corrupted Blood in women and treats bronchitis along with a wide variety of cancers.
The fruit restores the sinews and reduces deep-rooted swellings.
The root facilitates urination, especially with Caul Akebiae Mu Tong.
It also treats traumatic injury.