Yellow-Fruit Nightshade and Improved Forced Vital Capacity

• A pilot study on the clinical efficacy of Solanum xanthocarpum and Solanum trilobatum in bronchial asthma.

  • 1999-08
  • Clinical Trial
  • Journal of ethnopharmacology 66(2)
  • • S Govindan
    • S Viswanathan
    • V Vijayasekaran
    • R Alagappan

  • PubMed: 10433479
  • DOI: 10.1016/s0378-8741(98)00160-3

  4 Insights on

  • Improved Forced Vital Capacity

  • Moderate evidence
  • Clinical

  Treatment with either S. xanthocarpum or S. trilobatum significantly improved the various parameters of pulmonary function in asthmatic subjects.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  Yes

  Dose

  300 mg