Latin Name: Semen Brassicae

Other Name: Semen Sinapis 

Part Used: Seed

Appearance: Yellowish Fine Powder

Active Ingredient: Sinalbin by HPLC/UV

Specs: 10%-20% Sinalbin 

Mustard Seed is the ripe seed of Sinapis alba L. or bBrassica juncea (L.) Czern. et Coss. (Fam. Cruciferae).The former is known as Bai Jiezi (Semen Sinapis Albae).The latter is known as Huang Jiezi (Semen Brassicae Junceae).The plant is cut up in late summer and early autumn when the fruit is ripe, and dried in the sun.The drug is tapped out and removed from foreign matter.

Mustard seeds are rich in Selenium and Magnesium. Selenium help reduce the severity of asthma, decrease some of the symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis, and help prevent cancer. Eating soaked seeds on regular basis reduces risk of cancers of the gastrointestinal tract and that of colorectal. Mustard stimulates the appetite by increasing salivation by up to eight times.

It also has laxative,digestive and circulative stimulant properties. Since ancient times, mustard is used as purgative. It's used to produce vomiting in the case of accidental poisoning. Mustard oil has anti-septic and antifungal properties.

1.treatment of internal accumulation of phlegm-dampness, obstruction of functional activities of 

Qi by phlegm

2.For treatment of fluid ¨Cretention in chest and hypochondrium , asthma, fullness 

and pain in hypochondrium

3.For treatment of numbness and pain of joints and extremities

4.For treatment of cold abscess and mycotic lesion or abscess

1) To relieve dyspnea and cough by eliminating cold-phlegm;

2) To reduce nodulation, and to relieve pain by removing the obstruction of collaterals.