Scientific name: Solanum nigrum
English name: Garden nightshade

Two other names of Manithakkali are Mulaku thakkali and chedithakkali.

Manithakkali heals cancer. Including a dish made of the leaves of manithakkali, onion, chillies and scraped coconut in your diet is good for healing mouth and intestinal ulcers.

For more details on folk medicine:-
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