Red tadpole-Solanum dulcamara

Description of red tadpole vine:

Solanum Dulcamara L. (Old or other known names: bittersweet, zolna, runner, woodland, wild, water, or beaten tadpole, iszalag, kalina, kalinka, temondad grass) Solanaceae – Solanaceae A creeping shrub growing from half a metre to two metres. Stems sometimes drooping. Leaves stalked, ovate, entire, pointed. Inflorescences stunted. Flowers violet, rarely white. The yellow anthers form a cone protruding from the flower. Berry with long ovoid sepals bright red.

Occurrence:

Tropical America, less so in the temperate zone, mainly in wet places. In our country it grows along ditches, in damp shrubs and in grasslands.

Part to be collected:

Stems to be collected for trade stipites Dulcamarae it is harvested for sale. The drug-forming stems are 4-8 mm thick, longitudinally striated or furrowed, greenish-brown to glossy, with peasant cones and leaf veins on the surface. The inside is often hollow.

Active ingredient:

Solanine, dulcamarin.

Harvesting and drying:

Stems collected in early spring or late autumn are dried in the sun or in the attic.

Processing and sale:

It is quite commonly used in general medicine in the form of extracts and in various forms in homeopathy. Source: Dr Ferenc Darvas and Dr Gyula Magyary-Kossa,Domestic herbs, their production, marketing, effects and medicinal uses