Brassica campestris Linn. |
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Botanical Name |
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Brassica campestris Linn. |
English
Name |
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Turnip, Celery cabbage, Chinese white cabbage, Peking cabbage |
Synonym(s) |
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Brassica rapa Linn. , Brassica rapa campestris L, Brassica rapa silvestris (Lam.)Janch. |
Family |
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Brassicaceae |
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General Info
| Description |
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A much-branched, very variable, annual or biennial herb, up to 1.5 m in height. Taproot fusiform or tuberous; basal leaves lyrate-pinnatifid, lobes decreasing in size towards petiole, glaucous, glabrous, with a few bristly hairs, especially along the veins; lower cauline leaves several lobed, upper cauline leaves sessile, amplexicaul, oblong-lanceolate, sharply dentate; flowers yelow; siliqua, 50-100 mm x 2.5-4.0 mm, attenuating into a long slender beak 5-30 mm long; seeds mucilaginous or non-mucilaginous. |
| Herb Effects |
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Antiscorbutic. |
Chemistry
| Active Ingredients |
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Beta-carotene, thiamine, riboflavin, niacin, ascorbic acid, erucic, linoleic, and linolenic acids. |
| Chemistry
of Active Ingredients |
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Name |
CAS# |
IUPAC Name |
Formula |
Structure |
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| beta Carotene |
7235-40-7 |
3,7,12,16-tetramethy
l-1,18-bis(2,6,6-tri
methyl-1-cyclohexeny
l)-octadec
a-1,3,5,
7,9,11,13,15,17-nona
ene |
C40H56 |
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| Thiamine |
67-03-8 |
2-[3-[(4-amino-2-met
hyl-pyrimidin-5-yl)m
ethyl]-4-methyl-1-th
ia-3-azoni
acyclope
nta-2,4-dien-5-yl]et
hanol |
C12H17N4OS+ |
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| Riboflavin |
Not Available |
Not Available |
C17H21N4O9P |
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| Niacin |
99148-57-9 |
pyridine-3-carboxyli
c acid |
C6H5NO2 |
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| Ascorbic acid |
Not Available |
2-(1,2-dihydroxyethy
l)-4,5-dihydroxy-fur
an-3-one |
C6H8O6 |
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| Erucic acid |
1072-39-5 |
docos-13-enoic acid |
C22H42O2 |
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| Linolenic acid |
94138-91-7 |
octadeca-9,12,15-tri
enoic acid |
C18H30O2 |
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| Linoleic acid |
8024-22-4 |
Octadeca-9,12-dienoi
c acid |
C18H32O2 |
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Pharmacology
| Medicinal Use |
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For cancer (seed, stem and leaves); breast cancer, scurvy (root). |
| Reference |
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 Hartwell, J.L. 1967–1971. Plants used against cancer. A survey. Lloydia 30–34.
Sharma, Classical Uses of Medicinal Plants. |
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