Sisymbrium officinale (Hedge Mustard)
Arable weed, Cropwell Butler CP, Nottinghamshire SK63T
Dr Charles Deering wrote in his 1738 Flora of Nottingham that this is very common about Hedges, uncultivated Grounds, and even upon old Battered Walls. It is still one of Nottinghamshire's commonest plants. He added, "This Plant deserves all the Praise Lobel bestows upon it, it is a powerful Detersive, of great Service in Chronical Coughs, it wonderfully cuts Phlegm lodged upon the Air Vessells, and by opening the obstructed Ducts of the Salival Glands, it takes off even an inveterate Hoarseness." He shares a recipe for a compound syrup for the use of private Families, as it is seldom to be met with in Shops.
More recently, Mrs Grieve wrote in her Modern Herbal, "This plant is named by the French the "Singer's Plant," it having been considered up to the time of Louis XIV an infallible remedy for loss of voice. Racine, in writing to Boileau, recommends him to try the syrup of Erysimum in order to be cured of voicelessness. A strong infusion of the whole plant used to be taken in former days for all diseases of the throat." Formerly known as Erysimum officinale
Sisymbrium officinale (Hedge Mustard)
Arable weed, Cropwell Butler CP, Nottinghamshire SK63T
Dr Charles Deering wrote in his 1738 Flora of Nottingham that this is very common about Hedges, uncultivated Grounds, and even upon old Battered Walls. It is still one of Nottinghamshire's commonest plants. He added, "This Plant deserves all the Praise Lobel bestows upon it, it is a powerful Detersive, of great Service in Chronical Coughs, it wonderfully cuts Phlegm lodged upon the Air Vessells, and by opening the obstructed Ducts of the Salival Glands, it takes off even an inveterate Hoarseness." He shares a recipe for a compound syrup for the use of private Families, as it is seldom to be met with in Shops.
More recently, Mrs Grieve wrote in her Modern Herbal, "This plant is named by the French the "Singer's Plant," it having been considered up to the time of Louis XIV an infallible remedy for loss of voice. Racine, in writing to Boileau, recommends him to try the syrup of Erysimum in order to be cured of voicelessness. A strong infusion of the whole plant used to be taken in former days for all diseases of the throat." Formerly known as Erysimum officinale