Sugar Mustard, a Chinese herbal medicine. Sugar Mustard clears heat from the blood, suppresses coughs, and strengthens the heart. It is used to treat fever in tuberculosis, cough in pulmonary tuberculosis, chronic illness with insufficient cardiac function, and is effective against botulism. It is the whole plant and seeds of the Cruciferae plant Sugar Mustard!
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Sugar Mustard is an annual or biennial herb, 30-60 cm tall, densely covered in appressed 2-forked hairs;
The stem is erect, unbranched or with branches at the upper part, and with ridges.
The leaves are lanceolate or long elliptic-linear, the basal leaves are 5-15 cm long, 5-20 mm wide, with acute tips, gradually narrowing at the base, entire margins, and covered with 2-forked hairs on both sides;
The petioles are 1.5-2 cm long; upper leaves have short petioles or no petioles, and the base is near-amplexicaul, with wavy teeth or nearly entire margins.
The inflorescence is corymbose, with many flowers; sepals are long and elliptic, 5-7 mm long, densely covered in 2-forked hairs, with white membranous margins;
The petals are orange-yellow, lanceolate in shape, 10-14 mm long, with fine veins, rounded at the tips, and with long claws at the base; stamens are 6, almost equal in length.
The siliques are linear, 4.5-8.5 cm long, about 1 mm wide, slightly tetragonal, with a style about 1 mm long, and the style has 2 lobes, with raised midribs on the lobes; pedicels are 5-7 mm long, obliquely spreading upwards.
There is 1 row of seeds per locule, they are oblong, laterally compressed, 1-1.5 mm long, and dark reddish-brown. The flowering period is from June to August, and the fruiting period is from July to September.
