IndianJadiBooti Kateri Stem - Kateri Badi - Solanum Xanthocarpum - Bhatkatiya - Kantakari - Katehri

Form: Raw Herb

Other Names: 

Kantkari, Huang guo qie, Yellow-berried Nightshade, Indian Solanum, Aubergine de Siam à fruits panachés, Thai-Aubergine, Bethiringani, Bhauringani, Kateli, Kandiari, Bhatkatai, Nelagulla, Kiragulla, Solanum xanthocarpumSchrad, Bhauringani, Kataringani, Katai Khurd, Kandiari, Barumb, Kantakari, kantkari, Nidigadhika, Kateri,Katai, Bhat Kataiya, Kanthakari, Milk Thistle, Ringani, Kanteli, Bruhati, Thorny Night Shade, Wild Eggplant, Yellow Berried Nightshade, Febrifuge, Kanteri

India is home to the kateri stem, which is frequently found in trashy areas, by roadsides, and in open scrublands. It is a thorny shrub with many branches that is typically spread out or diffused. It can reach heights of one to five metres. Young branches have a thick layer of tiny star-shaped hairs covering them. The prickles are 1 to 5 cm long, golden, and shiny.

India is home to the perennial, extremely thorny herb known as kateri stems. A transversely smoothened surface reveals a thin bark and wide compact cylinder of wood, brief fractures, and a bitter taste in the root, which is 10 to 45 cm long, a few mm to two cm in diameter, virtually cylindrical, and carrying a number of fine longitudinal and few transverse wrinkles.

Glucoalkaloids and sterols make up the majority of the chemical makeup of kateri stems. It also contains tomatidienol, fatty acids, isochlorogenic acids, neochronogenic acids, chronogenic acids, caffeic acids, quercetin, apigenin, histamine, and acetylcholine. It also contains B-Carotene, Diosgenin, Sitosterol, Carpesterol, Solasodine, Solamargine, B- Solamargine, Solasonine, Sola

Kateri Stems is one of ten herbal roots utilised in Ayurveda, along with Dasahamoola and Mahanarayan Oil.

A perennial herb with prickly, bright green leaves is called kateri stems. The herb has multiple branches and a woody base. Younger stems have cold-pressed, straight, yellow prickles with stellate tomentum. Up to 10 cm long and 5 cm wide, leaves can grow.

Benefits of Kateri Stems:

Cough, cold, asthma, respiratory tract infections, tastelessness, fever, osteoarthritis, itching, dyspnea, anorexia, skin conditions, worm infestation, and cardiac abnormalities are among the conditions it is used to treat. Amenorrhea, painful deliveries, irregular periods, and dysmenorrhea in females are all treated using its seeds. For diseases of the liver and stomach, boiled decoction of dry herb is recommended. Expectorant seeds are present. Asthma and catarrh are both treated with them.

From the fruits, kateri stems can be removed, serving as a source of basic ingredients for the production of hormones. Wild plants are collected and used locally as food and medicine. Solasodine, which is needed for the manufacture of hormones, is extracted from the fruits for commercial use.

It is used to maintain a normal body temperature, improve the respiratory system, aid digestion, open the chest, and improve breathing.