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

located to the south and east Asia since prehistoric times, but only known in the Western world no earlier than around 1500. The fruit has a variety of colors, especially purple, green, and white. The first written records about 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 is brought into the Western world through the Mediterranean region by Arab nations in the early Middle Ages. Scientific name, Solanum melongena, derived from the Arabic term of the 16th century to a kind of eggplant plants.

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 of flowers.
    The fruit is purple and green.

Substances contained in the herb eggplant:

Components such as flavonoids are antioxidants and also nasunin giver body cell membrane protection against free radicals by providing nutritious food for the brain. In brain cell membranes contain lipids that do not only protect the body from free radicals but also absorb nutrients for the body and discard the body’s metabolism.
Nasunin also serves as a binder of iron in case of excess iron in the body. Iron is good for immune 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 benefits of the herb eggplant:

    As a means of contraception, especially for men.
    As an anti-rheumatic agent, was used as a fresh vegetable.
    To cure lumbago, rheumatism, stiff waist, and other pain, by way of vegetables, including dried fruit.
    Emperis vegetables can treat measles or chicken pox, alcohol dependence, Tritis gas and burns.
    Anti seizures are relatively difficult to know exactly when the attack occurred.
    As the herbs to soak nervous disease.
    As an herbal repellent panic
That was some understanding and benefits of eggplant, hopefully useful to you all.