Back to photostream

talong (eggplant) explore

Folkloric

- Decoction of roots taken internally for asthma and as a general stimulant.

- Leaves are used for piles.

- The boiled root of the wild plant, mixed with sour milk and grain porridge, has been used for the treatment of syphilis.

- Decoction of roots, dried stalk, and leaves is used for washing sores, exudative surfaces and used as astringent for hemorrhage from the bladder and other hemorrhagic fluxes.

- The juice of leaves used for throat and stomach troubles.

- Juice of the fruit, sometimes with pounded leaves, rubbed on suspected syphilitic eruptions of the hands.

- Fruit considered cooling, and bruised with vinegar

- Chinese and Annamites used the roots for skin diseases.

- The fruit is considered cooling, and bruised with vinegar, is used as a poultice for abscesses and cracked nipples.

- In Taiwan folk medicine, roots are used for rheumatism, inflammation and foot pain.

- Long fruit is phlegmatic and generative of phthisis, coughs, and anorexia.

- The peduncle, incinerated, used in intestinal hemorrhages, piles, and toothache.

- Seeds used as stimulant but may cause dyspepsia and constipation

- In French Guinea, decoction or infusion of leaves is used for stomach troubles and sore throat.

- In India, juice of various plant parts and pulp of fruits of S. melongena and its wild allies used for various ailments: diabetes, otitis, toothaches, cholera, bronchitis, asthma, dysuria, among many others.

 

source: stuart xchange

19,525 views
135 faves
17 comments
Uploaded on December 13, 2016
Taken on November 28, 2016