Medicinal name: Cang Er Zi
Northeastern a.k.a.: Lao Cang Zi
Hanyu Pinyin: cang er zi
English name: Siberian Cocklour Fruit, Fruit of Siberian Cocklebur
Latin botanical and animal mineral name: Xanthium sibiricum Patrin.ex Widder Xanthium mongolicum Kitag.
Family Classification: Asteraceae
Alias: Cocklebur, Cow Lice, Hu Bedzi, Canglang Seed, Cotton Mantis, Cangzi, Hu Cangzi, Hungry Lice, Cangkizi, Canglong Thistles, Canglong Zi, Old Cangzi, Wild Eggplant, Thorned Eggplant, Boils grass, sticky sunflower.
Taste: bitter; sweet; pungent; warm; slightly poisonous
Organism: lung meridian; liver meridian.
Functions: dispersing wind-cold; clearing nasal orifices; dispelling wind-dampness; relieving itching.
Treatments: nasal abyss; wind-cold headache; rheumatism paralysis; rubella; eczema; scabies
Use and dosage: Chinese medicine Cang Er Zi 3 l0 grams, the whole herb 6 l 5 grams, decocted in water, or into the pills and proteins; external use of the appropriate amount of fresh, freshly pounded compresses, or powdered compresses, or decocted water to wash the affected area.
Ecological environment: Born in plains, hills, low mountains, wilderness, sandy wasteland, arid slopes, roadsides, ditches, fields, grasslands, villages and other places.
Resource distribution: distributed in Heilongjiang, Liaoning, Inner Mongolia and Hebei, Jilin.
Medicinal Source: The fruit of Cang Er Gong Mongolia Cang Er with involucre of Asteraceae.
Harvesting and storage: September-October fruit ripening, from green to yellow, the leaves have been mostly withered off attack, choose a sunny day, cut down the whole plant, threshing, Yang will be, sun-dried.
Concoction: pick all the impurities, remove the thorns, sieve the ash, slightly fried to yellow, remove and cool.