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SINAPIS nigra. BLACK MUSTARD. Seeds. L. E. D. By writers on the Materia Medica, mustard is considered to promote appetite, assist digestion, attenuate viscid juices, and, by stimulating the fibres, to prove a general remedy in paralytic and rheumatic affections.
Nothing could be more useful than botany-those who could not distinguish between a dicotyledon and a monocotyledon could certainly never rightly grasp the nature of a hedgerow. Bellis perennis and Sinapis arvensis were not to be confounded, and Triticum repens was a sure sign of a bad farmer.
They then absorb these solutions for the nourishment of the plant. The acid given out was first thought to be carbonic acid, but now it is supposed by some experimenters to be acetic acid, by others to vary according to the plant and the time. The action can be shown by the following experiment, suggested by Sachs. I. Seedling of Sinapis alba showing root-hairs.
Joined to its stimulant qualities, it frequently, if taken in considerable quantity, opens the body, and increases the urinary discharge; and hence has been found useful in dropsical complaints. Woodville's Med. Bot. p. 404. SINAPIS alba. WHITE MUSTARD. Seeds. L. E. D. These have been recommended to be taken whole in cases of rheumatism and have been known to produce considerable relief.
It is found principally in woods and old pastures, and is in good perfection about the middle of September. CHARLOCK. Sinapis arvensis. The young plant is eaten in the spring as turnep-tops, and is considered not inferior to that vegetable.
Batakashaya is explained by the commentator as substance that is named by pounding the hanging roots of the banian. The Priyangu here mentioned is not the Aglaia Roxburghiana but the seed called Rajasarshapa, i.e., Brassica juncea; Sinapis ramasa, Roxb. The Shashtika paddy is that which ripens in sixty days.
Raising this vegetable in close rooms by fire heat has been found to produce them with a bad flavour; and they are not considered so wholesome as those grown in the open air, or when that element is admitted at times freely to the beds. MUSTARD, WHITE. Sinapis alba. This is sown early in the spring; to be eaten as salad with cress and other things of the like nature; it is of easy culture.
The quantity sown per acre is the same as Wheat. SINAPIS nigra. BLACK MUSTARD. This is grown in Essex in great quantities for the seeds, which are sold to the manufacturers of flower of mustard, and is considered better flavoured, stronger, and capable of keeping better, than the white kind for such purpose. It is also in use for various medicinal preparations; which see.
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