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Sisymbrium officinale

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376:). This plant "grows by our roadsides and on waste ground, where it is a common weed, with a peculiar aptitude for collecting and retaining dust...it is named by the French the 'Singer's Plant,' it having been considered up to the time of Louis XIV an infallible remedy for loss of voice. Jean Racine, writing to Nicolas Boileau, recommends him to try the syrup...in order to be cured of voicelessness." It is "good for all diseases of the chest and lungs, hoarseness of voice...the juice...made into a syrup with honey or sugar, is no less effectual...for all other coughs, wheezing and shortness of breath...the seed is held to be a special remedy against poison and venom." It was "formerly used for hoarseness, weak lungs and to help the voice." Herbalists use the juice and flowers for 44: 31: 256:
grows to 80 cm high. The lower leaves are broad with two or three lateral lobes. The flowers are about 4 mm across and yellow. Fruits are long and without hairs when young but show hairs when mature and reach 18 mm long on
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and also in the highlands of Scotland. It is found on roadsides, wasteland and as a weed of arable land. A native of Europe and North Africa, it is now well-established throughout the world.
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The Greeks believed it was an antidote to all poisons. In folk medicine, it was used to soothe sore throats - indeed one French name for it is the
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for its edible leaves and seeds. It is widely used as a condiment in
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Potter's New Cyclopedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations,
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it is used to repress the symptoms of food poisoning.
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ailments, among other uses, and as a revitalizer. In
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Scientific classification
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Plantae
Tracheophytes
Angiosperms
Eudicots
Rosids
Brassicales
Brassicaceae
Sisymbrium
Binomial name
L.
Scop.
Synonyms
Brassicaceae
mustard plants
Brassica
racemes
caterpillars
Lepidoptera
small white
Pieris rapae
Ireland
Wales
England
Europe
Northern Europe
Denmark
Norway

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