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Brassicaceae
General information
The genera in the family of Brassicaceae ( Table 1 ) include various types of brassica (cabbage, broccoli, brussels sprouts, kale, kohlrabi, pak choi, rape, turnip), mustard, and cress.
Table 1
Genera of Brassicaceae
| Alliaria (alliaria) | Neobeckia (lake cress) | |
| Alyssum (madwort) | Diplotaxis (wallrocket) | Nerisyrenia (fan mustard) |
| Anelsonia (anelsonia) | Dithyrea (shield pod) | Neslia (neslia) |
| Aphragmus (aphragmus) | Draba (draba) | Parrya (parrya) |
| Arabidopsis (rock cress) | Dryopetalon (dryopetalon) | Pennellia (mock thelypody) |
| Arabis (rock cress) | Eruca (rocket salad) | Phoenicaulis (phoenicaulis) |
| Armoracia (armoracia) | Erucastrum (dog mustard) | Physaria (twinpod) |
| Athysanus (sandweed) | Erysimum (wallflower) | Polyctenium (combleaf) |
| Aubrieta (lilac bush) | Euclidium (mustard) | Raphanus (radish) |
| Aurinia (aurinia) | Eutrema (eutrema) | Rapistrum (bastard cabbage) |
| Barbarea (yellow rocket) | Glaucocarpum (waxfruit mustard) | Rorippa (yellowcress) |
| Berteroa (false madwort) | Guillenia (mustard) | Schoenocrambe (plains mustard) |
| Brassica (broccoli, cabbage, mustard, rape) | Halimolobos (fissurewort) | Selenia (selenia) |
| Braya (northern-rock cress) | Hesperis (rocket) | Sibara (winged rock cress) |
| Bunias (warty cabbage) | Heterodraba (heterodraba) | Sibaropsis (sibaropsis) |
| Cakile (searocket) | Hirschfeldia (hirschfeldia) | Sinapis (mustard) |
| Calepina (ballmustard) | Hutchinsia (hutchinsia) | Sisymbrium (hedge mustard) |
| Camelina (false flax) | Iberis (candytuft) | Smelowskia (candytuft) |
| Capsella (capsella) | Idahoa (idahoa) | Stanfordia (stanfordia) |
| Cardamine (bittercress) | Iodanthus (iodanthus) | Stanleya (prince’s plume) |
| Cardaria (whitetop) | Ionopsidium (ionopsidium) | Streptanthella (streptanthella) |
| Caulanthus (wild cabbage) | Isatis (woad) | Streptanthus (twist flower) |
| Caulostramina (caulostramina) | Leavenworthia (gladecress) | Stroganowia (stroganowia) |
| Chlorocrambe (chlorocrambe) | Lepidium (pepperweed) | Subularia (awlwort) |
| Chorispora (chorispora) | Lesquerella (bladderpod) | Synthlipsis (synthlipsis) |
| Cochlearia (scurvy grass) | Lobularia (lobularia) | Teesdalia (shepard’s cress) |
| Coincya (star mustard) | Lunaria (lunaria) | Thelypodium (thelypody) |
| Conringia (hare’s ear mustard) | Lyrocarpa (lyrepod) | Thelypodiopsis (tumble mustard) |
| Coronopus (swine cress) | Malcolmia (malcolmia) | Thlaspi (penny cress) |
| Crambe (crambe) | Mancoa (mancoa) | Thysanocarpus (fringepod) |
| Cusickiella (cusickiella) | Matthiola (stock) | Tropidocarpum (tropidocarpum) |
| Descurainia (tansy mustard) | Microthlaspi (penny cress) | Warea (pineland cress) |
| Dimorphocarpa (spectacle pod) | Moricandia (moricandia) | |
| Myagrum (myagrum) |
Several of the Brassicaceae contain allyl isothiocyanate, which is a potent irritant and has mutagenic activity in bacteria and fetotoxic and carcinogenic effects in rats. However, as allyl isothiocyanate also occurs in ordinary mustard, it would not be realistic to ban all botanical drugs that contain it, since they commonly provide no more than a normal daily dose of mustard (for example 5 mg of allyl isothiocyanate per 5 g of mustard).
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