What does burdock look like? Burdock is a kind of food and medicine with a long history in China. It has been used since ancient times. The roots of burdock are orderly and multifunctional. Let me show you a picture of what burdock looks like. Interested friends come and have a look ~
What does burdock look like? Picture 1 burdock, also known as Ershi, Poplar and Oriental Ginseng, also known as Oriental Bullwhip, etc. It has been eaten as a vegetable for many years in Taiwan Province Province and is known as the birthplace of burdock. 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 Mountain in Shandong Province, with a long history and a large area.
Burdock contains inulin, cellulose, protein, calcium, phosphorus, iron and other vitamins and minerals needed by human body, among which the content of carotene is 150 times higher than that of carrot, and the content of protein and calcium ranks first in rhizome. Burdock root contains inulin, volatile oil, burdock acid, various polyphenols and aldehydes, and is rich in cellulose and amino acids.
Burdock stems and leaves contain volatile oil, tannin, mucus, caffeic acid, chlorogenic acid, isochlorogenic acid and so on. Fructus Arctii contains arctiin, fatty oil, sterol, thiamine, arctigenol and other chemical components. Among them, fatty oil accounts for 25%-30%, and the iodine value is138,83, which can be used as industrial oil.
Extended data
(A) growth habits
Burdock likes warm climate, which is both heat-resistant and cold-resistant. The optimum temperature for seed germination is 20~25℃, and the optimum temperature for plant growth is 20~25℃. The aboveground part is weak in cold resistance, and it will die at 3℃, while the straight root has strong cold resistance and can withstand the low temperature of -20℃. In winter, the ground dies, overwinters with straight roots, and germinates and grows in the next spring.
(II) Main efficacy
1, burdock has the functions of treating diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia and anticancer. It can reduce blood sugar, blood pressure and blood lipid, treat insomnia and improve human immunity.
2. Antibacterial effect: Burdock contains antibacterial components in the whole plant, among which leaves contain the most antibacterial components, mainly targeting Staphylococcus aureus.
3. Hypoglycemic effect: The aqueous extract of Fructus Arctii can significantly and permanently reduce blood sugar and increase glucose tolerance in rats.
What does burdock look like? Fig. 2 burdock
Alias: Miscellaneous Fruit, Mouse Sticker, Millet Sticker, Barley, Hairy Fruit, Black Wind, Hairy awl, Sticker Fruit, Daniuliao, Cow Seed, Soil Ketone, Bowl Bagou and Rat Tip.
Taboo crowd: people with qi deficiency and loose stool should not use it.
Basic introduction of burdock.
Arctium lappa is the mature fruit of Arctium lappa in Compositae. When the fruit is ripe in autumn, collect the fruit sequence, dry it, put the fruit, remove impurities and dry it again. Raw or fried, mashed when used. It has the effects of dispelling wind and heat, dispersing lung qi and penetrating rash, relieving sore throat and resolving hard mass, and removing toxic materials and swelling. Which belong to wind-heat dispersing drug in exterior-relieving drugs. Modern research shows that Fructus Arctii can also be used to prevent and treat diabetic nephropathy. Arctigenin produced by hydrolysis of arctigenin in Fructus Arctii has anticancer activity.
Efficacy and function of Fructus Arctii
Burdock, pungent, bitter and cold; Enter the lung and stomach meridians. Evacuate wind and heat; Dissemination of penetrating lung rash; Relieve sore throat and disperse knots; Detoxification and swelling reduction. Main wind-heat cough; Sore throat; Macula is impenetrable; Rubella itching; The sore is swollen and toxic.
Nutritional value of Fructus Arctii
The fruit contains arctigenin, which is hydrolyzed to produce arctigenin and glucose. It also contains rosinol, trachelospermine, sesquilignin AL-D, Al-F, seeds contain arctigenin, arctigenin A, B, C, D, E, F, H, and fatty oil, among which fatty acids are arachidic acid, stearic acid, palmitic acid and linoleic acid.
The purchase of burdock
Achene obovate, flat at both ends, slightly flat and slightly curved, 5-7 mm long and 2-3 mm in diameter. The surface is grayish brown or light grayish brown, with many tiny black spots and obvious longitudinal ridges. The apex is wide, ringed, and there is a little raised style remnant in the center; The narrow base has round hilt marks. Hard, two cotyledons can be seen after crushing, light yellow and white, rich in sand. The fruit is tasteless; The seeds have a strange smell, a bitter taste and a tingling sensation for a long time.
It is better to have large, full and grayish brown grains.
What does burdock look like? Fig. 3 efficacy and function of burdock.
1 Materia Medica Classic: "Pathogenic excess is an important drug for expelling wind, clearing away heat and detoxifying. Xin can disperse the knot, bitter can dissipate heat, and heat can disperse dirty qi, so it is better to see and replenish the middle. Wind injury leads to stagnation of defensive qi, and stagnation leads to fever. When the Xin Liang is dissolved, the qi will be harmonious and there will be nothing in the wind. Storing qi to control wind, toxic swelling and flaccidity; Everyone who knows that the elements govern moistening the lungs, dispersing stagnation of qi, relieving sore throat and diaphragm, removing skin wind and dredging the twelve meridians knows this meaning. Therefore, it is especially wonderful to treat addiction and acne. "
2 "Theory of Medicinal Properties": "Dispelling wind, eliminating erysipelas, improving eyesight, benefiting waist and feet, and loosening bones and muscles."
Compendium of Materia Medica: "The main wind is toxic and swollen, and all kinds of flaccidity."
4 "Seeking Truth from Materia Medica": "Arctium lappa, people no longer explain poison, and it is still meaningless to treat sores, ulcers, swelling, acne and other diseases without this treatment. The knot of mortal poison gas is caused by exogenous wind and cold, and it is not the camp but the meat, so it produces carbuncle poison. Burdock tastes pungent and bitter, which can not only reduce the downward movement of qi, but also restore energy to dispel wind and remove heat. It is due to the feeling of wind, evil and heat, such as puffiness, expectoration, sore throat, rash, stench, indigestion, purple pox, constipation and all other symptoms. However, it is cold and slippery, and eating too much hurts the middle qi, which makes the table benefit insufficient. As for diarrhea due to spleen deficiency, it is especially taboo. "
5 "Herbal Semielegance": "This is used to shake the wind, so the power of pumping water and soil is absolutely. The taste is spicy and flat, because the wind wood is made for use. Then, if it is a disease caused by wind, or a disease caused by cold, it is necessary to use it and set it outside and above the shape layer, and the effect will be better. With this product, it can help the liver and wood, so there is not much loss, but peace. "
This product is the ripe fruit of Arctium lappa L. of Compositae.
Sexual taste and meridian tropism: pungent, bitter and cold. Enter the lung and stomach meridians.
Efficacy of dispersing wind and heat, resolving phlegm and relieving cough, clearing away heat and toxic materials.
Efficacy and function of Fructus Arctii
clinical application
1, used for exogenous wind-heat and sore throat.
This product can dispel wind-heat and relieve sore throat. Clinically, it is suitable for patients with wind-heat exterior syndrome and sore throat. It is often combined with Radix Platycodi, Flos Lonicerae and Fructus Forsythiae.
2. Used for poor penetration of measles.
Arctium lappa dispersed wind and heat and broke out in rash. It is often used with Cimicifuga rhizome, Radix Puerariae, Cicadae Cicadae and Herba Menthae, and is used for patients with initial measles and poor rash.
3. Used for relieving cough and resolving phlegm.
Burdock dispels wind and heat, spreads lung qi, eliminates phlegm and relieves cough. Therefore, it is often used as an important medicine for patients with wind-heat cough and phlegm. Can be compatible with Schizonepeta, Platycodon grandiflorum and Glycyrrhiza uralensis Fisch.
4, used for sores and swelling.
Fructus Arctii, together with Rhizoma Coptidis and Radix Isatidis, has certain curative effect on heat toxic sore and carbuncle.