False claims about black nightshade were shared on Facebook here on March 8, 2022.
"It can be used as medicine to cure breast and cervical cancer (whole plant)," reads part of the Thai-language post.
"Akha and Lahu ethnics will use its roots and fruit to boil with water as body nourishments. It can alleviate fatigue (roots, fruit) and the dried fruit grinds can be used to treat diabetes and reduce sugar levels in the blood," it goes on to say.
"The fresh fruit and its flowers have the properties of a cough medicine, while Karen communities in Chiang Mai will boil its roots and drink it as medicine."
Accompanying the claims are 11 photos of what appear to be a black nightshade plant.
The same claims have been shared repeatedly elsewhere on Facebook in Thailand in 2021, 2020, 2018 and 2017.
But experts told AFP that consuming black nightshade could be harmful, and the plant has not been found to treat the diseases mentioned in the posts.
Busaraporn Thonsrirungkun from the Department of Thai Traditional and Alternative Medicine told AFP on November 28: "This plant is known to be poisonous in all of its...
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