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Introduction to Sichuan Dipsacus

Dipsacus asperoides (scientific name: Dipsacus asperoides C. Y. Cheng et T. M. Ai) is a perennial herbaceous plant of the Dipsacus family Dipsaceae, Rubiales order, with cylindrical roots, yellowish brown, slightly fleshy, upright stems, and leaves with fiddle-shaped pinnacles. , stem leaves, with extra long central lobes, lanceolate, apex acuminate, sparsely serrated, inflorescence head-shaped, spherical, inserted at the base of the inflorescence, leaf-shaped, calyx four-edged, corolla tube narrow funnel-shaped, stamens obviously beyond the corolla , the filaments are flat, the anthers are purple, the style is shorter than the stamens, the stigma is short rod-shaped, the ovary is inferior, the achenes are long and obovate. The flowering period is from August to September, and the fruiting period is from September to October. Born in forest edges, shrubs, and grasslands at an altitude of 2,000 to 3,600 meters. The roots are used as medicine to treat pain in the lower back, flaccidity of limbs and joints, trauma from falls, broken bones and tendons, fetal movement, bleeding, bleeding, spermatorrhea, vaginal discharge, carbuncle and sores.