No, Chinese medicine can be more look quite like, but the efficacy can be very different, with the wrong can be a problem About burdock Alias burdock, Dali son, evil real, burdock, bat prickly, Oriental radish, Oriental ginseng, cattle whip vegetable. For the Asteraceae herb taproot plants, is a kind of fat fleshy root for edible vegetables, petiole and young leaves can also be eaten, burdock seeds and burdock root can also be used as medicine. Native to China, around 920 A.D. was introduced to Japan, planted in Japan to train out a number of varieties, the late 1980s by the Japanese introduction of vegetable burdock, most of the exports, a small amount of the domestic market. Burdock in Japan burdock has become a common people's home to strengthen the body, disease prevention and treatment of health care dishes. It can be compared with ginseng, so it is called Oriental ginseng. In China for a long time for medicinal purposes, only in recent years began to burdock nutritional value, food value and pharmacology Biological properties of Pueraria Mirifica Pueraria Mirifica Alias: Pueraria Mirifica, Pueraria Mirifica, Pueraria Mirifica, Pueraria Mirifica. Source: Roots of Pueraria lobata (Willd.) ohwi, family Leguminosae. Phytomorphology: Vine, up to about 10 m long, the whole plant is yellow-brown hirsute. Tricotyledonous leaves alternate, stipules peltate, ovate-elliptic; central leaflet rhombic-ovate or broadly ovate, lateral leaflets obliquely elliptic, both surfaces hispid, abaxial surface denser; stipules peltate, stipules needle-like. Racemes axillary, densely flowered; bracteoles ovate or lanceolate; calyx campanulate, calyx teeth 5, upper 2 teeth connate, lower l teeth longer, inside and outside are yellow pilose; corolla butterfly-shaped, blue-purple, ca. 1.5 cm. pods linear, 5-10 cm, flat, densely yellowish brown hirsute. The pods are linear, 5-10cm long, flattened, densely yellow-brown hirsute. Born in grassy slopes, roadsides, open forests in the more shady and humid places. Mainly produced in Hunan, Zhejiang, Henan, Guangdong. Harvesting: Digging in fall and winter, cutting into thick slices or small pieces while fresh, drying. Characteristics: Longitudinally cut rectangular slices or small cubes, 5-35cm long, 0.5-lcm thick, with light brown skin, longitudinal wrinkles and roughness. The cut surface is yellowish white. The texture is tough and fibrous. Odorless, slightly sweet. Chemical Composition: Containing a variety of flavonoids, the main active ingredients for soybean (daidzein), soybean glycoside (daidzin), Puerarin (puerarin), Puerarin-7-xyloside (puerarin-7-xyloside) and so on. Sexual flavor: cool, sweet, pungent. Functions: Relieving exterior fever, promoting the production of fluids, transmitting rashes, promoting Yang and stopping diarrhea. It is used for external fever and headache, hypertension, strong neck pain, thirst, thirst, impenetrable measles, hot diarrhea, diarrhea.