Kadugu (or) Black Mustard (or) Sufedrai

Description

Sans.-Svetasarisha; Siddhartha. Eng.-Black Mustard. Hindi.&Guj.-Sufedrai. Ben.-Dhop-rai. Mab.-Mohori-pandri. tam.-Kadugu. Mal.-Vella-kadugu. Tel.-Avalu. Burm.-Kungziyan. Cing.-Rataba. Fr.-Moutarde clanche. Ger.-Weisser-senf.

Uses.-Seeds are used externally like the ordinary mustard. Flower of this mustard made into a paste with is applied as a stimulant poultice or plaster to the epigastrium in abstinate  vomiting,cholera. The plaster and poultice are prepared in cold water.Mustard seeds are generally added to the foot-bath usually employed in case of high fever in chest pains mustard baths are locally applied;liniment is applied to swollen joints etc.