Lepidium sativum Chandrashoor Garden cress Candrasura Kurassaani Halam

Plant Profile

Botany

Binomial nomenclature

Lepidium sativum

Scientific Name and Description

Lepidium sativum L.

Herb Family

Brassicaceae

Plant type

Herb

Plant Synonyms

Arabis chinensis Rottler ex Wight
Cardamon sativum Fourr.
Crucifera nasturtium E.H.L.Krause
Lepia sativa Desv.
Lepidium hortense Forssk.
Lepidium sativum subsp. sativum
Lepidium sativum subsp. spinescens (DC.) Thell.
Lepidium sativum var. crispum DC.
Lepidium sativum var. spinescens (DC.) Jafri
Lepidium spinescens DC.
Nasturtium crispum Medik.
Nasturtium hortense Garsault
Nasturtium sativum Moench
Nasturtium spinescens Kuntze
Thlaspi sativum Crantz
Thlaspidium sativum Spach

Plant Names - Common - Regional - Vernacular

Common names	Garden Cress, Peppergrass, Common Cress, garden pepper cress, pepper grass or pepper wort, town cress, passer age
English	common cress, garden cress
Hindi	akalam, candsur, chamsuru, chandrasur, chansar, chansaur, chaunsar, halim, hurf, Halon, Chandraseed
Kannada	alavibija, alli beeja, allibija, alvi, kurutige
Malayalam	asali
Marathi	ahaaleev, ahaliv, ahliv, ahliva, asaaliya, athaleeva,Alevere, Halon
Sanskrit	ahaleeva, asalika, asalima, ashalika, bhadra, candrasura, candrika, chandrashura, chandrasura, chandrika, charmahantri, daraa, drighabija, jati, kalmesha, kalamesha, karavi, krishna, nandini, pashumehankarika, pasumehanakarika, raktbija, raktabija, raktaraji, sidhaprayojana, suvasura, vasapuspi, vasuprisha
Tamil	aali, aalividai, ali, ali verai, ali-virai, aliverai, alivirai, alivitai, alivittu, cantiracura, cantirakam, kokila, Alli Verai
Telugu	aadithyalu, aandilee, adalavitulu, adalvitulu, adeli, aditya, adityalu, adiyalu, Thadakapu Chettu
Urdu	habb-ul-rashaad (haloon)
Bengali	Chandrasekh

Plants Medicinal Value

Medicinal Systems

Ayurved

Unani

Siddha

Folk

Western

Pharmacological profile

Herb usable parts

Roots

Leaves

Fruits

Seeds

Whole plant

Oil

Ethanomedical Uses

Ethnopharmacology use

Lepidium sativum L.

Habit -Small herb

Parts used -Whole plant

Application -Bronchitis; increases lactation

Treatment -General; women

References -Nanjunda 2010

Herbs Medicinal Activity

Herbs Medical Indications

References

Literature

Nanjunda 2010

Flora of Gujarat State Vol 1 Author - G.L.Shah

Flora of Rajasthan Vol. 1 Author - B.V.Shetty & V.Singh

The Flora of Orissa Volume 1 Author - H. O. Saxena, M. Brahmam

The Flora of Kerala Vol I Author - Ed. P. Daniel

THE FLORA OF THE TAMILNADU CARNATIC-VOL I Author - K.M. MATTHEW

Flora of Himachal Pradesh Vol I Author - H.J.chowdhery & B.M.Wadhwa

FLORA OF INDIA VOL 2 Author - Botanicaly Survey of India

Flora of Maharashrta State (Dicotyledons) Volume 1 Author - N.P.Singh, P.Lakshminarasimhan, S.Karthikeyan & P.V. Prasanna

FLORA OF ASSAM Author - KANJILAL & BOR

Flora of the Indian Desert Author - Bhandari M.M

Flora of West Bengal Vol 1 Author - BSI Scientist

FLORA OF KARNATAKA VOL-1 Author - C.J. SALDHANA.

Indian Journal of Natural Products and Resources Vol. 2(3), September 2011, pp. 292-297

Published 11 February 2019 http://dx.doi.org/10.32859/era.18.4.1-112

The National Medicinal Plants Board (NMPB), Department of AYUSH

Foundation for Revitalisation of Local Health Traditions (FRLHT)

Citations

Sakshi Painuli, Cristina Quispe, Jesús Herrera-Bravo, Prabhakar Semwal, Miquel Martorell, Zainab M. Almarhoon, Ainur Seilkhan, Alibek Ydyrys, Javad Sharifi Rad, Mohammed M. Alshehri, Sevgi Durna Daştan, Yasaman Taheri, Daniela Calina, William C. Cho, "Nutraceutical Profiling, Bioactive Composition, and Biological Applications of Lepidium sativum L.", Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity, vol. 2022, Article ID 2910411, 20 pages, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/2910411

WFO (2024): Lepidium sativum L. Published on the Internet;http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000358699. Accessed on: 11 Jun 2024