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[[File:Img 0717 garden cress.jpg|thumb|right|''Charmahantri'', ''Garden cress'']]
'''Charmahantri''' is also known as Garden cress, mustard and cress, garden pepper cress, pepperwort pepper grass, chandrashura or poor man's pepper. Garden cress is genetically related to watercress and mustard, sharing their peppery, tangy flavor and aroma.
==Uses==
{{Uses|Asthma}}, {{Uses|Cough}}, {{Uses|Snakebites}}, {{Uses|Counter gout}}, {{Uses|Skin deseases}}, {{Uses|Diabates}}, {{Uses|Scurvy}}, {{Uses|Diarrhea}}, {{Uses|Blood pressure}}.
==Parts Used==
==Chemical Composition==
Atropine sulphate, carbachol (CCh), dicyclomine, isoprenaline, verapamil, and rolipram were purchased from Sigma Chemicals Company, St. Louis, MO, USA. Guinea-pigs (500–550 g) of either sex and local breed were kept at the Animal House of the Aga Khan University, maintained at 23–25°C, and were given standard diet and tap water<ref name="chemical composition"/>
==Common names==
{{Common names|kn=alavibijaAlavibija, alli Alli beeja|ml=asaliAsali|sa=ahaleevaAhaleeva, asalikaAsalika|ta=aaliAali, aalividaiAalividai|te=aadithyaluAadithyalu, aandileeAandilee|hi=akalamAkalam, candsurCandsur|en=common Common cress, garden Garden cress}}
==Properties==
===Flower===
{{Flower|Bisexual|Terminal and axillary racemes|White|6|pedicels Pedicels cylindric, ascending or subappressed, to 3.5 mm long in fruit, glabrous. Sepals 1.5-1.75 mm long, sparsely pubescent outside. Petals spathulate, somewhat clawed, 2.5-2.75 mm long, sometimes reddish and distinctly nerved. }}
===Fruit===
{{Fruit|Silicula| 5-6 x 3-5 mm across||compressed, keeled at the back, apex emarginate and broadly winged, glabrous, style about 0.2-0.5 mm long, included or rarely excluded from the apical notch|Seeds reddish brown, slightly compressed or flattened, ovate-ovoid, winged, about 2-3 x 1-1.75 mm across, smooth minutely reticulate, nicely mucilaginous when soaked, cotyledons incumbent}}
===Other features===
==How to plant/cultivate==
An easily grown plant, it succeeds in most soils. For the best results, however, it requires a moist soil and also some shade during the summer to prevent it going straight to seed. <ref name="How to plant/cultivate"/>
==Commonly seen growing in areas==
{{Commonly seen|Temperate area}}, {{Commonly seen|Trophical Tropical area}}.
==Photo Gallery==