An annual or biennial herb, 90 cm tall. Leaves runcinate or pinnatifid, lobes not auricled, terminal large; flowers minute, yellow, in racemes; siliquae 3-5 cm long, slender, erect; seeds ovoid, reddish or yellow-brown, 1.3 mm., mucilaginous when wet.

Stimulant, antibacterial, analgesic, rubefacient, expectorant, restorative, febrifuge and antipyretic (seed).

Plants for a Future

Oleic and linolenic acids (fatty oils); iso-rhamnatin (seed).

Infections of the chest and throat (leaf); in asthma (seed). The seeds have been placed under the lids of sore eyes in order to cause weeping and thereby wash foreign matter out of the eye.

Chandel et al., Biodiversity in Medicinal and Aromatic Plants in India.