Amukkuram അമുക്കുരം

MEDICINAL PROPERTIES
The main chemical constituents are alkaloids and steroidal lactones. These include tropine and cuscohygrine. The leaves contain the steroidal lactones,withanolides, notably withaferin A, which was the first withanolide to be isolated from W. somnifera.
In Ayurveda, the berries and leaves of W. somnifera are locally applied to tumors, tubercular glands, carbuncles, and ulcers.[5] The roots of W. somnifera are used to prepare the herbal remedy ashwagandha, which has been traditionally used to treat various symptoms and conditions
Winter cherry is one of the important components of most of the medicines in Toxicology. (It is given both in the form of pills and decoction).It is an important medicinal plant to fight the poison of Cobra.
It grows as a short shrub (35–75 cm) with a central stem from which branches extend radically in a star pattern (stellate) and covered with a dense matte of woolly hairs (tomentose). The flowers are small and green, while the ripe fruit is orange-red and has milk-coagulating properties. The plant’s long, brown, tuberous roots are used for medicinal purposes.