Sinapi, Mustard

Khardal, Rai (Black Mustard, Unani)
Safaid Sarson (White Mustard, Ayurveda)
Yungs Dkar  ཡུངས་དཀར  (White Mustard, Tibetan)
Picture Ortus Sanitatis, Meydenbach, 1491

Picture Picture
Two varieties of Mustard
Della Materia Medicinale, Andrea Valuassori, 1562

Picture Brassica nigra
Kohler’s Medizinal Pflanzen, 1887

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Botanical name:
There are 2 types of Mustard:
  1. Sinapsis alba (White, syn. Brassica alba)
  2. S. nigra (Black or Brown Mustard, syn. Brassica nigra, B. sinapioides)

Parts used:


Seed

Temperature & Taste:


Hot, dry. Pungent

Classifications:


2B ATTENUATERS.    2C INCIDER.    2M. DRAWING.    2U. SUPPURATIVES
3E. DIURETIC.    3K. EXPECTORANT.     3L. ANTI-TUSSIVE.     3N. EMETIC.     3P. MASTICATORIES & STERNUTATORIES
4k. ARTHRITIC
TCM:
P. Clear Cold Phlegm

Uses:


1. Clears Cold and Damp (West, TCM, Ayuveda):
-Falling Sickness, Lethargy, Paralysis, Headache, and Dizziness
-Stomach pain, pains in the sides, and in the bowels
-promote Menstruation when obstructed by Cold
-rheumatic and sciatic pains.

2. Warms the Lungs, Clears Phlegm (West, TCM, Ayuveda):
-Lung conditions with Tough and Cold phlegm: cough, chest distention, bronchial congestion; ‘Shortwindedness’
-pain from swelling of the cheat and ribs.
-Chronic Bronchitis and Asthmatic Bronchitis (TCM)
-vomiting and regurgitating of Phlegm.

3. Clears Swellings and Nodes, Stops Pain:
-cold obstruction of the circulation with joint pain, cold aches
-Sores and Boils that have no active inflammation, but ooze clear liquid (from coldness and poor circulation)
    
4. Warms the Kidneys, Promotes Urine:
-promotes urine when obstructed by cold.
-‘Mightily stirs up Lust’.

5. Resists Poison:
-’the seed of the White Mustard is used in some antidotes’. (Gerard)
-‘Quartan Fevers from Tartarous Mucilage, and in Quotidians a dram given before the Fit’ (Schroder)

6. Emetic:
-1 Tablespoon of the powder taken in water has been much used as a prompt emetic.
    
7. Externally:
-applied to sore joints from coldness, as sciatica, crick in the neck,
-bruises.
-In poultices, ointments and baths for most cold diseases.
-externally to drive away Carus (put in the nose)
-to promote Sneezing
-externally to ripen Swellings and Tumors
–Chewed in the mouth for toothache that is worse when cold


Dose:


Powder: 500mg–3 grams
Much used topically in plaster, poultice, pastes etc.
As a poultice add enough hot water to Mustard seed powder to form a stiff paste; apply topically.
As a wash or Foot bath, 1 tablespoon of the bruised seeds can be boiled in 1 liter of water for a few minutes.

Correctives:


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Substitutes:


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Preparation:
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Main Combinations:


1. Cold and Weak Digestion, Mustard seed with  … available in PRO version
2. Cough from Cold Phlegm:
i. with fullness and distention in the chest, combine Mustard seed with  … available in PRO version
ii. Mustard seed with  … available in PRO version
3. Diuretic:
i. Mustard seed with  … available in PRO version
ii. Mustard seed with  … available in PRO version
4. Paralysis:
i. Mustard seed  … available in PRO version
ii. Mustard seed  … available in PRO version
iii. Mustard seed powder  … available in PRO version
5. Deep rooted boils without heat, combine Mustard seed with  … available in PRO version
6. Arthritis, Cold-Damp type Joint pain:
i. Mustard seed with  … available in PRO version
ii. Mustard seed with  … available in PRO version
7. As a liniment for pain, Mustard seed  … available in PRO version
8. As a gargle, Mustard seed  … available in PRO version
9. Tumors and swellings of the Throat, a gargle with Mustard seed,  … available in PRO version

Major Formulas:


Electuary to Clarify the Voice (Galen)
Antidote for Cold Kidneys and to Excite Libido (Nicholas)

Cautions:


1. Not for excess Heat or Yin deficiency.
2. Avoid in Stomach Heat, Gastritis, Peptic Ulcers and Gastrointestinal bleeding.
3. Avoid in patients with deficient Cough.

Toxicity:


1. Overdose can cause diarrhea and enteritis.
2. Topical application may cause redness and local irritation. In some cases, topical application has caused allergic reactions, sweating, dizziness, agitation etc.

Main Preparations used:


Oil expressed from the Seed (good for Cold diseases of the Nerves); Mustard Plaster