Solanum nigrum L. is a product for clearing away heat and toxic materials due to bitter cold, and is a general medicine for treating yang sores and carbuncle. Strong ability to clear fire, promote blood circulation and reduce swelling, and treat carbuncle and tuberculosis well, but it contains solanine, which can dissolve blood cells.

Excessive poisoning can cause headache, abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhea, dilated pupils, rapid heartbeat first and then slow, insanity and even coma. Once a child died after eating immature black nightshade fruit, because the poisoning phenomenon is the same as eating sprouted potatoes, so even if you want to eat, you should eat mature fruit and control the delicious amount.

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Precautions:

1, Solanum nigrum contains toxic substances such as solanine and can be eaten raw. Before eating, you must soak in boiling water and take it out before eating.

2. Solanum nigrum can be blanched, mixed cold, or chopped to make steamed buns or jiaozi stuffing.

3. Black nightshade can be washed and fried.

4. Solanum nigrum can be eaten cold with shredded tofu after drowning. Solanum nigrum can lower blood sugar in the body, and people with hypoglycemia should not eat more.

5, raw black nightshade can not be eaten, it must be mature. Solanine acts like saponin and can dissolve blood cells. Excessive poisoning can cause headache, abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhea, dilated pupils, rapid heartbeat first and then slow, insanity and even coma.

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