Burdock Seed

Alias: Dali Zi, Mouse Sticky Seed, Wicked Real, Cow's Seed

English Name: Arctii Fructus

Main Effects: Dispersing wind-heat, promoting the lungs to penetrate the rashes and detoxicating the pharynx

Chinese herbal medicine Burdock Seed, an antidote to epidermal problems, is the dried and matured fruit of the burdock of the plant of the family of Asteraceae.

The origin of burdock seed, mainly produced in Hebei, Jilin, Liaoning, Zhejiang.

The medicinal part of burdock seed:

This product is the dried mature fruit of burdock Arctium lappa L., family Asteraceae. The infructescence is harvested in the fall when the fruit is ripe, dried in the sun, beaten down, impurities removed, and then dried in the sun.

The traits and characteristics of burdock seed:

The product is long obovate, slightly compressed, slightly curved, 5-7mm long, 2-3mm wide, gray-brown surface, with purple-black spots, there are several longitudinal ribs, usually in the middle of the 1 to 2 more obvious. The tip is obtuse-rounded, slightly broad, with a ring on the top surface, and a punctate stylar remnant in the middle; the base is slightly narrower, and the bearing surface is lighter in color. Pericarp harder, cotyledons 2, yellowish white, rich in oil. Gas faint, taste bitter and then slightly pungent and slightly numb tongue.

Burdock can slip the intestines, so those with a weak spleen and loose stools should not take.