Latin name: Salanum melongena

Local Name: Eggplant

Description: Eggplant (Solanum melongena) is a diversified crop year shrubs that can grow up to achieve high
60-90 cm. Eggplant is food plants grown for fruit. The origins of cultivation

located in the southern and eastern Asia since prehistory, but it was unknown in the Western world no earlier than about 1500. The fruit has a variety of colors, especially purple, green, and white. The first written record of eggplant found in Qi Min Yao Shu, an ancient Chinese agricultural work, written in the year 544. The number of Arabic names and North Africa for the eggplant and the lack of Greek and Roman names show that this tree was brought into the West through the Mediterranean region by the Arabs in the early Middle Ages. Scientific name, Solanum melongena, derived from the Arabic word for a 16th-century type of plant eggplant.

Here are the characteristics of the herb eggplant:

    The leaves of this plant width and shape of the ear.
    The flowers are purple and is the perfect flowers, usually separate and form in bunches.
    The fruit is purple and green.

substances in the herb eggplant:

Nasunin flavonoid components such as antioxidants and also a donor’s body cell membrane protection against free radicals by providing nutritious food for the brain. Cell membranes contain a lipid in the brain that not only protect the body from free radicals but also for the body to absorb nutrients and dispose of the body’s metabolism.
Nasunin also serves as pengkat iron case of excess iron in the body. Iron is good for immunity function and oxygen transport in the body. But if excessive iron in the body increases the risk of heart disease and cancer.

Here are some of the benefits of herbal plants eggplant:

    As a means of contraception, especially for men.
    As an anti-rheumatic agent, used as a salad.
    To cure lumbago, rheumatism, stiff hips, and other pain, the way these vegetables including dried fruit.
    In emperis vegetables can cure measles or chicken pox, alcohol dependence, tritis gas and burn scars.
    Anti seizures are relatively difficult to know exactly when the attack occurred.
    As the herbs to soak nervous diseases.