Sweet, cool and non-toxic. Both Cirsium japonicum and Cirsium japonicum have the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials, diminishing inflammation, stopping bleeding, restoring liver function and promoting liver cell regeneration, and are suitable for acute fever, inflammatory bleeding, jaundice, hepatitis, heat stranguria and hematuria.

Nutritional value of sea cucumber.

Cirsium japonicum contains volatile oil, alkaloids, resin, inulin and cyanosides. The whole plant of Cirsium japonicum contains alkaloids and saponins.

Edible method of Stichopus japonicus

"Herbal Medicine for Dietotherapy" contains "Take vegetables and cook them, except wind and heat".

Spinach, formerly known as Cirsium japonicum, is a perennial herb of Compositae. It is found in all parts of China, common in ridges, fields, ditches and wetlands, and it is wild grass everywhere. Su Song said:' Cirsium japonicum is everywhere, with its common name (Cirsium japonicum), and its roots are delicious as vegetables. The basal thistle leaves are pinnately divided, with sharp spines at the edge, fat roots, purplish red flowers and the same color as thistle. Cirsium japonicum and Cirsium japonicum belong to the same family and different genera, with similar properties, and they are all used for medicine.

Cirsium japonicum is the whole grass or rhizome of Ipomoea crassipes of Compositae. Perennial herbs, born on hillsides, wasteland, roadsides or fields, are distributed in all parts of the country except Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan and Tibet. In summer and autumn, when the flowers are in bloom, cut them, remove impurities, dry them in the sun, or use them rarely.