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Lepidium ruderale

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Lepidium ruderale is species of flowering plants in the mustard or cabbage family, Brassicaceae. It is native to temperate Asia and northern and eastern Europe. It has also naturalized in southwestern Europe and North America. Its common names include narrow-leaf pepperwort, roadside pepperweed, and peppergrass.

Uses

Food and Medicinal plant, Asthma, Bleeding piles, Hemorrhoid, Skin diseases, Cough, Rheumatism.

Parts Used

Flower, Seeds, Leaves.

Chemical Composition

The yield of the endosperm and the bran fraction were 72 and 28%, respectively. The WM, endosperm and bran had 22.5, 27.7 and 12.6% protein, 27.5, 33.1 and 6% fat, 30, 13.6 and 75% dietary fibre (DF), and 1193.00, 945.15 and 1934.57 mg% potassium respectively. The major protein on SDS-PAGE was of 29.5 kDa. The most abundant amino acid was glutamic acid (19.3%) and the essential amino acid, leucine was the highest (8.21 +/- 0.01%) and methionine the lowest (0.97 +/- 0.02%). The major fatty acid was linolenic acid (30.2%) and low amount of erucic acid (3.9%) was also present. Bran having high water holding capacity and high DF, its use as source of DF was explored. The product contained 12% protein, 4% fat and 74.3% DF and exhibited desirable functional properties such as dispersibility, gelling ability, stability, formed homogenous mild alkaline suspension and was comparable to proprietary DF.[1]

Common names

Language Common name
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Hindi NA
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Punjabi NA
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Sanskrit NA
English Narrow-leaf pepperwort, Roadside pepperweed, Peppergrass


Properties

Reference: Dravya - Substance, Rasa - Taste, Guna - Qualities, Veerya - Potency, Vipaka - Post-digesion effect, Karma - Pharmacological activity, Prabhava - Therepeutics.

Dravya

Rasa

Tikta (Bitter), Kashaya (Astringent)

Guna

Laghu (Light)

Veerya

Vipaka

Karma

Prabhava

Habit

Anthropogenic, Meadows and fields

Identification

Leaf

Kind Shape Feature
leaves are compound Obovate Leaves are alternately arranged, The edge of the leaf blade has lobes, or it has both teeth and lobes, Edge of the leaf blade has teeth the edge, Leaf blade is entire (has no teeth or lobes)


Flower

Type Size Color and composition Stamen More information
Bisexual 2-4cm long Pink/white There are four petals, sepals, or tepals in the flower. Both the petals and sepals are separate and not fused

Fruit

Type Size Mass Appearance Seeds More information
Oblong pod 1.5–3 mm The fruit is dry and splits open when ripe

Other features

Where to get the saplings

Mode of Propagation

Seeds

How to plant/cultivate

Seeds naturally have a low germination rate. The hard and impenetrable seed coat is one of the reasons.[2]

Commonly seen growing in areas

Tropical area, Subtropical area.

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