Plant Details

Accepted name:: Mutarda nigra (L.) Bernh. [Brassicaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( Medium Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
ana	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
aslrai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
asuri	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
atitikshva	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
avalu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
banarasi raai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
banarasirai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
banarsi-rae	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
bhutaghnah	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
biji sawi	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
bilesasive	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
black mustard	Other	Food Pl. in Seven Circum-Medit. Areas (Hadjichambis et al., 2009) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) ISO 4720:2009 Essential Oils: Nomenclature (2009) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007) Israeli Trad. Med. (Lev, 2006) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998) Tea and Herbal Infusions Europe Pl. Inventory (THIE, 2021) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) Wild Med. Pl. Jordan (Al-Qura'n, 2009)
black or brown mustard	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
brown mustard	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
dry mustard	Other	Ethnomedica (RBG, Kew, 2020)
ghorrai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
jagrai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
jwalanti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
jwalatprabha	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kadagu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kadugu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
kadugu kirai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kaduka	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kali rai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kali sarson	Other	Med. Pl. in Talagang, Punjab Province (Nazish Rehman et al., 2017)
kalirai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kalorai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kappu saasiva	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
karee saasive	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kari saasive	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kari sassive	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
karisasive	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
karisasivey	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
karun katuku	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
katuasuri	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
katuku	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
katusnehah	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
khardal	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Med. Pl. in Jordan (Oran, 1998) Med. Pl. in Markets of Mashhad, Iran (Amiri & Joharchi, 2013)
khardal (rai)	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
khardal aswad	Other	Med. Pl. in Jordan (Oran, 1998)
khardal siyah	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
khardal-e-siāh	Other	Tradit. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
kharool	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
khirdal	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
khurdal	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
krimika	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
krishnasarshapa	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
krishnika	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kshava	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kshavaka	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kshudhabhijanikshnagandha	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kshujjanika	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kshutabhijanaka	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kshutaka	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
lahi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
madhurika	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
makra-rai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
makrarai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
mohari	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
mohori	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
moninga rai	Other	Pl. for Geohelminth in Kalat District, Pakistan (Bibi et al., 2016)
mostarda preta	Other	Med. Pl. Braz. Pharm. (Brandão et al., 2006)
mostaza negra	Other	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
moutarde noir	Other	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
moutarde noire	Other	ISO 4720:2009 Essential Oils: Nomenclature (2009)
mustard	Other	Ethnomedica (RBG, Kew, 2020) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
mustard hot	Other	Ethnomedica (RBG, Kew, 2020)
mustard oil	Other	Food Chemicals Codex, 11th edn. (USP, 2018) Food Chemicals Codex, 6th edn. (USP, 2008) WHODrug Herbal Substances, Suppl. 2023 (WHO-UMC, 2023)
mustard powder	Other	Ethnomedica (RBG, Kew, 2020)
naula avalu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
raai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
raajika	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
rai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
raji	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
rajika	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
raktasarshapa	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
raktika	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
saag	Other	Pl. Meds for Musculoskeletal Disorders, N. Pakistan (Malik et al., 2018)
sarsapah	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
sarshaf	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
sarshap	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
sarshapa	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
sarshapah	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
sasive	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
sawi	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
schwarz senf	Other	Tea and Herbal Infusions Europe Pl. Inventory (THIE, 2021)
schwarzer senf	Other	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
schwarzer senfsame	Other	Pharmacopoeia Helvetica (Swissmedic, 2006)
senapa vera	Other	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
shortpod mustard	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
siddharthah	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
sinapi	Other	Wild Edible Pls. of Paphos & Larnaca of Cyprus (Della et al., 2006)
sinapis aetheroleum	Pharmaceutical	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
sinapis nigra	Other	U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
sinapis nigrae semen	Pharmaceutical	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) Pharmacopoeia Helvetica (Swissmedic, 2006)
sinápi	Other	Med. Pl. Use: Monasteries on Cyprus (Lardos & Heinrich, 2013)
skye tshe	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
spiritus sinapis	Pharmaceutical	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
taramira	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
tira	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vaggarane saasive	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
xerdel	Other	Ethnobot. & Trade of Pl. in Qaysari Market, Iraq (Mati & Boer, 2011)
xertel	Other	Ethnobot. & Trade of Pl. in Qaysari Market, Iraq (Mati & Boer, 2011)
σινάπι	Other	Modern Pl. Use in Monasteries on Cyprus, 2006-2012 (Lardos, 2016)
خردل	Other	Med. Pl. in Jordan (Oran, 1998)
خردل اسود	Other	Med. Pl. in Jordan (Oran, 1998)
خردل سیاه	Other	Tradit. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
Semen		Ethnobot. & Trade of Pl. in Qaysari Market, Iraq (Mati & Boer, 2011)
Seed		Tradit. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
Seeds		Pl. Meds for Musculoskeletal Disorders, N. Pakistan (Malik et al., 2018)
Whole plant		Med. Pl. in Talagang, Punjab Province (Nazish Rehman et al., 2017)
Seeds		Pl. for Geohelminth in Kalat District, Pakistan (Bibi et al., 2016)
Seeds		Wild Edible Pls. of Paphos & Larnaca of Cyprus (Della et al., 2006)
seeds, leaves		Food Pl. in Seven Circum-Medit. Areas (Hadjichambis et al., 2009)
seed		Med. Pl. Use: Monasteries on Cyprus (Lardos & Heinrich, 2013)
seeds		Modern Pl. Use in Monasteries on Cyprus, 2006-2012 (Lardos, 2016)
oil, seed, leaves		Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
seed		Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
seed		Med. Pl. in Markets of Mashhad, Iran (Amiri & Joharchi, 2013)
seed	oil	WHODrug Herbal Substances, Suppl. 2023 (WHO-UMC, 2023)
seeds		Food Chemicals Codex, 11th edn. (USP, 2018)
whole plant		Med. Pl. in Jordan (Oran, 1998)
seed		Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
seed	oil	Food Chemicals Codex, 6th edn. (USP, 2008)
seed	dried seed	Pharmacopoeia Helvetica (Swissmedic, 2006)
seed	essential oil, vegetal drug, powdered drug	Med. Pl. Braz. Pharm. (Brandão et al., 2006)
leaf, stem, seed		Wild Med. Pl. Jordan (Al-Qura'n, 2009)
seed	essential oil	ISO 4720:2009 Essential Oils: Nomenclature (2009)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 42 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Brassica nigra (L.) W.D.J.Koch in J.C.Röhling, Deutschl. Fl., ed. 3, 4: 713 (1833).
Brassica sinapioides Roth Manual: 957 (1848).
Sinapis nigra L. Sp. Pl.: 668 (1753).
Brassica brachycarpa P.Candargy Bull. Soc. Bot. France 44: 154 (1897).
Brassica bracteolata Fisch. & C.A.Mey. Index Seminum (LE, Petropolitanus) 4: 33 (1838).
Brassica elongata var. longipedicellata Halácsy ex Formánek Verh. Naturf. Vereins Brünn 36: 88 (1898).
Brassica nigra var. abyssinica A.Braun Flora 24: 266 (1841).
Brassica nigra var. bracteolata (Fisch. & C.A.Mey.) Spach ex Coss. Bull. Soc. Bot. France 6: 609 (1859).
Brassica nigra f. breviflora Zapał. Rozpr. Akad. Umiejetn., Wydz. Mat.-Przyr. 53: 120 (1913).
Brassica nigra var. carneodentata Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 19 (1891).
Brassica nigra f. condensata Hausskn. Mitt. Geogr. Ges. (Thüringen) Jena 8(Gesamtthüring): 31 (1890).
Brassica nigra f. dentifera Zapał. Rozpr. Akad. Umiejetn., Wydz. Mat.-Przyr. 53: 120 (1913).
Brassica nigra f. glabrata Zapał. Rozpr. Akad. Umiejetn., Wydz. Mat.-Przyr. 53: 120 (1913).
Brassica nigra f. hispida O.E.Schulz in H.G.A.Engler (ed.), Pflanzenr., IV, 105(70): 78 (1919).
Brassica nigra subsp. hispida (O.E.Schulz) Gladis Feddes Repert. 103: 490 (1992).
Brassica nigra proles persoonii Rouy & Foucaud Fl. France 2: 51 (1895).
Brassica nigra var. subglabra Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 19 (1891).
Brassica nigra var. torulosa (Pers.) Alef. Landw. Fl.: 233 (1866).
Brassica nigra var. turgida (Pers.) Alef. Landw. Fl.: 233 (1866).
Brassica nigra proles turgida (Pers.) Rouy & Foucaud Fl. France 2: 51 (1895).
Brassica nigra var. vulgaris Alef. Landw. Fl.: 233 (1866).
Brassica persoonii Rouy & Foucaud Fl. France 2: 51 (1895).
Brassica sinapioides Roth ex W.D.J.Koch in J.C.Röhling, Deutschl. Fl., ed. 3, 4: 713 (1833).
Brassica sinapis Noulet Fl. Bass. Sous-Pyrén.: 32 (1837).
Brassica turgida Rouy & Foucaud Fl. France 2: 51 (1895), nom. illeg.
Crucifera sinapis (L.) E.H.L.Krause in J.W.Sturm, Deutschl. Fl. Abbild., ed. 2. 6: 131 (1902).
Erysimum glabrum C.Presl Fl. Sicul.: 76 (1826).
Melanosinapis communis Spenn. Fl. Friburg. 3: 945 (1829), nom. superfl.
Melanosinapis nigra (L.) Calest. Nuovo Giorn. Bot. Ital., n.s., 15: 384 (1908).
Raphanus sinapis-officinalis Crantz Cl. Crucif. Emend.: 109 (1769).
Rhamphospermum nigrum (L.) Al-Shehbaz Harvard Pap. Bot. 26: 3 (2021).
Sinapis bracteolata G.Don in R.Sweet, Hort. Brit., ed. 3: 42 (1839).
Sinapis erysimoides Roxb. Fl. Ind., ed. 1832. 3: 123 (1832).
Sinapis gorraea Buch.-Ham. ex Wall. Numer. List: n.° 4790 (1831), not validly publ.
Sinapis nigra var. torulosa (Pers.) Mérat Nouv. Fl. Env. Paris: 264 (1812).
Sinapis nigra var. turgida (Pers.) Mérat Nouv. Fl. Env. Paris: 264 (1812).
Sinapis orgyalis Willd. ex Ledeb. Fl. Ross. 1: 217 (1841).
Sinapis persoonii (Rouy & Foucaud) A.Chev. Rev. Bot. Appl. Agric. Trop. 21: 104 (1941).
Sinapis torulosa Pers. Syn. Pl. 2: 207 (1806).
Sinapis turgida Pers. Syn. Pl. 2: 207 (1806).
Sinapis turgida A.Chev. Rev. Bot. Appl. Agric. Trop. 21: 105 (1941), nom. illeg.
Sisymbrium nigrum (L.) Prantl Exkurs.-Fl. Bayern: 222 (1884).

This plant is cited in medicinal sources using the following names:

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Brassica nigra	Ethnomedica (RBG, Kew, 2020) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Substances in Meds., Australia (TGA, 2007) Tradit. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
Brassica nigra (L.) K. Koch	Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2017)
Brassica nigra (L.) K.Koch	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Med. Pl. in Markets of Mashhad, Iran (Amiri & Joharchi, 2013) Pl. for Geohelminth in Kalat District, Pakistan (Bibi et al., 2016) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019) WHODrug Herbal Substances, Suppl. 2023 (WHO-UMC, 2023)
Brassica nigra (L.) Koch	Hagers Handbuch (Hänsel et al., 1992-1998) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Med. Pl. in Jordan (Oran, 1998) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) Pharmacopoeia Helvetica (Swissmedic, 2006) Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997) Tea and Herbal Infusions Europe Pl. Inventory (THIE, 2021) Wild Edible Pls. of Paphos & Larnaca of Cyprus (Della et al., 2006)
Brassica nigra (L.) Kotck	Wild Med. Pl. Jordan (Al-Qura'n, 2009)
Brassica nigra (L.) W. D. J. Koch	Ethnobot. & Trade of Pl. in Qaysari Market, Iraq (Mati & Boer, 2011)
Brassica nigra (L.) W. D. J.Koch	Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998)
Brassica nigra (L.) W.D.J. Koch	ISO 4720:2009 Essential Oils: Nomenclature (2009) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Brassica nigra (L.) W.D.J. Koch)	Modern Pl. Use in Monasteries on Cyprus, 2006-2012 (Lardos, 2016)
Brassica nigra (L.) W.D.J.Koch	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Med. Pl. Braz. Pharm. (Brandão et al., 2006) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)
Brassica nigra (L.) W.DJ.Koch	Med. and Magical Pl. of S Africa (Arnold et al., 2002)
Brassica nigra (L.) W.d.j. Koch	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
Brassica nigra (L.)Koch	Food Pl. in Seven Circum-Medit. Areas (Hadjichambis et al., 2009) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Brassica nigra (L.)W.D.J.Koch	Med. Pl. in Talagang, Punjab Province (Nazish Rehman et al., 2017)
Brassica nigra (Linn.) Koch.	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
Brassica nigra (Linnaeus) W.D.J.Koch	Food Chemicals Codex, 11th edn. (USP, 2018) Food Chemicals Codex, 6th edn. (USP, 2008)
Brassica nigra Koch.	Israeli Trad. Med. (Lev, 2006)
Brassica nigra L. (Koch)	Pl. Meds for Musculoskeletal Disorders, N. Pakistan (Malik et al., 2018)
Brassica sinapioides Roth.	U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
Sinapis nigra L.	Med. Pl. Use: Monasteries on Cyprus (Lardos & Heinrich, 2013) Modern Pl. Use in Monasteries on Cyprus, 2006-2012 (Lardos, 2016)

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