🪶Indigenous / Native American🌴Caribbean Folk Medicine
Black Nightshade
Solanum americanum
About Black Nightshade
Black Nightshade (Solanum americanum) is a herb used in the Indigenous / Native American and Caribbean Folk Medicine traditions to help with Skin Health, Fever, Inflammation, and Pain, among 1 other condition it addresses. The aerial parts and leaves are the parts traditionally used, used both internally and topically.
Botanical background
Solanum americanum, commonly known as American black nightshade, small-flowered nightshade or glossy nightshade is a herbaceous flowering plant of wide though uncertain native range. The certain native range encompasses the tropics and subtropics of the Americas, Melanesia, New Guinea, and Australia.
Source: Wikipedia, via iNaturalist
Parts used
Aerial Parts · bothLeaves · both