Plant Chemicals <\/strong>
\n(+)- solanocarpine, carpesterol, solanocarpidine, potassium nitrate, fatty acid, diosgenin, sitosterol, isochlorogenic acid, neochronogenic acid, chronogenic acid, caffeic acid, solasodine, solasonine, solamargine, quercetin, apigenin, histamine, acetylcholine.<\/p>\n

Uses & Benefits of Kantakari<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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• Kantkari is useful in treating worms, cold, hoarseness of voice, fever, dysuria, enlargement of the liver, muscular pain, spleen and stone in the urinary bladder.<\/li>\n
• Nasal administration of kantkari is beneficial in migraine, asthma and headache.<\/li>\n
• Its dried fruit is used in making cigarettes. The smoke from these cigarettes is held in the mouth cavity, to treat dental infections.<\/li>\n
• The juice of the berries is used in curing sore throat.<\/li>\n
• The fumigation of kantakari is helpful in piles.<\/li>\n
• The herb is made to a paste and applied on swollen and painful joints to reduce the pain and swelling in arthritis.<\/li>\n
• Roots and seeds are used as an expectorant in asthma, cough and pain in chest.<\/li>\n
• The decoction of the root is given with honey, to treat cough.<\/li>\n
• The root is ground to a paste and mixed with lemon to cure snake and scorpion bites.<\/li>\n
• Its stem, flowers and fruits, being bitter and carminative, are used for relieving burning sensation in the feet.<\/li>\n
• Kantakari fruits also facilitate seminal ejaculation, alleviate worms, itching, and fever and reduce fats.<\/li>\n
• The fruit works as an aphrodisiac in males.<\/li>\n
• Its seeds are helpful for treating irregular menstruation and dysmenorrheal in females.<\/li>\n
• The herb is beneficial in the treatment of cardiac diseases associated with edema, since it is a stimulant to the heart and a blood purifier.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Description Kantkari, botanically known as Solanum Xanthocarpum, is a very spiny diffused herb, with a height of up to 1.2 meters. The young branches are densely covered with minute star-shaped hair, while the mature branches are zigzag, covered with yellow, sharp shining prickles and spread close to the ground. The midribs and other nerves of … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":572,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[17,13,903,9,904,897,902],"class_list":["post-562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-herba","tag-biology","tag-health_medical_pharma","tag-kantakari","tag-medicinal-plants","tag-nidigadhika","tag-solanum","tag-yellow-berried-nightshade","latest_post"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.shaafiherbalcare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Solanum-xanthocarpum.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shaafiherbalcare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shaafiherbalcare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shaafiherbalcare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shaafiherbalcare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shaafiherbalcare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shaafiherbalcare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573,"href":"https:\/\/www.shaafiherbalcare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions\/573"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shaafiherbalcare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shaafiherbalcare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shaafiherbalcare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shaafiherbalcare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}