Tanay Here are some uses from me: Cooked as vegetable, also consumed as salad, used for garnishing Leaves mild stimulant and diuretic, used in scorbutic diseases and hepatic complaints. Seeds galactogogue, emmenagogue, diuretic, tonic, aphrodisiac, laxative, used in poultices for hurts and sprains Roots used in secondary syphilis and tenesmus. Seeds also yield a semidrying oil used for soapmaking Mucilage from seeds known as Cress seed mucilage used as substitute for tragacanth and gum arabic. It allays irritation of the intestines in dysentery and diarrhoea.
-- Dr. Gurcharan Singh Retired Associate Professor SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 7:10 PM, tanay bose <tanaybos...@gmail.com> wrote: > Pankaj ji can u send mr link regarding the medicinal use o this plant > thanks in advence > tanay > > On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Pankaj Oudhia <pankajoud...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Thanks Gurcharan ji for nice pictures. We are growing Lepidium sativum as >> medicinal crop >> commercially<http://www.google.com/webhp?tab=mw#hl=en&safe=off&q=+site:www.pankajoudhia.com+lepidium+oudhia&sa=X&ei=m-JgTLKqAYeivgO-uMDECQ&ved=0CAIQqAQwBA&fp=d80d46517a9d778e>. >> >> >> regards >> >> Pankaj Oudhia >> >> >> On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 7:36 AM, Gurcharan Singh <singh...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> Lepidium sativum from Kashmir, cultivated and often found on roadsides. >>> Photographed on June 24, 2010 from Mohra near Uri. >>> >>> Local names: >>> English: garden cress >>> French: cresson alénois >>> German: Gartenkresse >>> Sans: Chandrashura >>> Hindi: Halim, Hurf >>> Beng: Halim, Aleveri >>> Mar: Aliliva >>> Guj: Asalio, Halim >>> Tel: Adalavitulu, Adeli, Adityalu >>> Tam: Aliverai >>> Kan: Allibija, Kurrutige >>> Punjab: Halim, Shargudaei, Tezak >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Dr. Gurcharan Singh >>> Retired Associate Professor >>> SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 >>> Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. >>> Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 >>> http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ >>> >>> >> > > > -- > Tanay Bose > Research Assistant & Teaching Assistant > Department of Botany > University of British Columbia > 3529-6270 University Blvd. > Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z4 (Canada) > Phone: 778-323-4036 > >
