Not the seed of mustard, the seed of this kind of vegetable inside your picture is not, as if this is a cabbage, right, even mustard is not it, huh?

Mustard seeds, also known as white mustard, a grain of a grain like pepper, the plant looks taller, the flower is yellow, the leaves are more coarse and dry, there is a little bit like the maple leaf, the tip of the leaf towards the three directions, I've seen in Sichuan, it is said that the South have, it is to do with medicine, so to the pharmacy cabinet of traditional Chinese medicine must be able to buy. I wish you success in your endeavors.

With details

Chinese name: mustard seed

Pinyin name: gai?zi

English name: White?Mustard?Seed

Alias? Name: White Mustard Seed.

Functions and Indications: Warming the lungs, expelling phlegm and inducing qi, dispersing knots and relieving pain. It is used for coughing with cold phlegm, chest and hypochondrium distension and pain, numbness of joints due to phlegm stagnation, phlegm-dampness flow, gangrene, swelling and toxin.

Nature? Taste: Warm in nature, pungent in flavor.

Chemical composition: contains sinalbin, myrosin, sinapine, 4-hydroxybenzoylcholine, 4-hydroxybenzylamine and so on.

Birth? Growth Place: Cultivated all over the world.

Here? Source: The seeds of Sinapis?alba?L., Cruciferae. L.? Seeds.

Botanical form: annual or biennial herb, up to 1m high, the whole plant is sparsely hirsute. Stem erect, branched. Leaves alternate, lower and middle leaves long-petiolate, leaf blade pinnatifid, terminal lobe broadly elliptic, larger, 3-lobed, lateral lobes 2-3 pairs; upper leaf lobes less. Racemes terminal; sepals 4; petals 4, yellow, clawed, arranged in a cross; stamens 6, tetrastaminal; ovary supracardiac. Long-horned fruit broadly linear, 2-2.5 cm long, with coarse white hairs and a long beak at the apex. Seeds globose, yellowish white. Flowering April to June, fruiting June to August.

Pick? Preparation: Cut the whole plant in late summer and early fall when the hornbeam is ripe and turning yellow, dry it in the sun and hit the seeds.

Remarks: The seeds of mustard Brassica?juncea (?L.)Czern.et?Coss. The seeds are also used as mustard seeds in medicine, and are known as "yellow mustard seeds".