"Bang", pronounced [bàng]

Burdock (scientific name: Arctium lappa L.), also known as: Ershi, Popeye, Toyo Ginseng, also known as Toyo Bullwhip, etc. It belongs to Campanulaceae, Compositae and Arctium.

more than a thousand years ago, Japan introduced and improved food from China. When Japan occupied Taiwan Province, it asked local farmers to plant it in large quantities in Tainan. The main reason is that Tainan has loose sand soil along the Zengwen River, the climate of the Tropic of Cancer and the famous extension of Alishan Mountain make its local burdock unique and precious. It has been eaten as a vegetable in Taiwan Province for many years and is known as the birthplace of burdock.

It belongs to the order Platycodon, a biennial herb in Compositae. Its basal leaves are broadly ovoid, up to 3 cm long and 21 cm wide. Most or a few heads are in corymbose inflorescences or conical corymbose inflorescences. Achenes are obovate or obliquely obovate, and both sides are flattened and light brown. The flowering and fruiting period is from June to September.

mainly distributed in China, western Europe, Kashmir, Europe and other places. China burdock is mainly planted in Jiangsu and Shandong provinces, Fengxian and Peixian counties in Xuzhou, Jiangsu province, and Cangshan in Shandong province with a long history and a large area.

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In Compendium of Materia Medica, it is also recorded that taking burdock for a long time can "dredge the meridians, remove evil spirits from the five internal organs, and be light and hard-working". At present, this statement has been confirmed by modern scientific research.

Although there is a lack of clinical experimental results to support it, many animal experimental results have confirmed that Burdock extract has the functions of lowering blood sugar, lowering blood lipid, enhancing immunity and preventing cancer. Burdock is also extremely rich in dietary fiber, which can naturally delay the absorption rate of blood sugar and blood lipid in the intestine and help control the rise of blood sugar and blood lipid.

In addition, it has a good effect in helping intestinal peristalsis and promoting defecation. A large number of plant active substances such as burdock polysaccharide in burdock rhizome can also improve immunity.

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