Purple flower mustard

Purple flower mustard

(commonly used Chinese herbal medicine in Tibet)

[synonym] Tinglizi, Jiwu radish (Tibetan name).

[source] it is the seed of Brassica juncea.

[plant morphology] pistil mustard

Annual herb, 8-35 cm high, with simple hairs and bifurcate bristles. The stem is much branched and angular. Leaves oblong, 1.5-8 cm long, 5-18 mm wide, apex obtuse, base cuneate, margin undulate toothed; petiole 3-5 mm long, upper leaves sessile. Raceme terminal; pedicel very short; pollen red or blue purple, 5-6 mm in diameter. Long horned fruit slender, nearly 4-sided, 4-7 cm long, 1-2 mm wide, inclined, erect or slightly curved, with simple and forked hairs and a short beak. Seeds 1 row, numerous, elliptic, light brown.

He was born in the field. It is distributed in Jiangsu, Henan, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu, Sichuan, Qinghai, Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, Tibet, etc.

[collection] the ripe fruits were harvested from July to September, dried in the sun, seeded and impurity removed.

Cold in nature, bitter and pungent in taste.

Functions and indications: dispelling phlegm and relieving asthma, purging lung and promoting diuresis. It is used to treat cough, phlegm, spleen deficiency, hydrops in chest and abdomen, fullness of chest and flank, and lung carbuncle. Use whole grass to detoxify meat.

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 1-3 yuan.