Understanding the Dangers and Traditional Uses: What are the benefits of Sodom apples?
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The plant known as the Sodom apple ($Calotropis$ genus), or apple of Sodom, is highly toxic, containing cardiotoxic chemicals in all its parts. While it has a long history of use in traditional medicine across Africa, India, and the Middle East, this is not a nutritional food source and consuming any part can be lethal.
