Is Dipsacus toxic?

Dipsacus is a plant belonging to the flower family. It can be found in almost every place in my country, mostly growing on roadsides and among weeds. It has small thorns on its stem and hairy glandular hairs at the tip, like a dandelion. Usually, Dipsacus asper can be used to make tea, but the taste is a little bitter. However, Dipsacus asper has the effects of clearing away heat and detoxifying, treating abscesses, and promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, and is very popular among people.

Dipsacus

Dipsacus asper belongs to the plant kingdom, Asteraceae, flower type, and is distributed throughout the country. Annual herb, 30-70cm tall. Root fusiform or conical. Stems branched or unbranched, glabrous or covered with capitate glandular hairs. Leaves are alternate; petioles of lower leaves are winged, while petioles of middle and upper leaves are sessile with enlarged auricles at base.

Dipsacus

Morphological characteristics

One or two year old herb. Has spindle-shaped roots. The stem is hollow, erect, 50-100 cm high, glabrous at the lower part, with sparse glandular hairs at the middle and upper parts and the top. Stem leaves are ovate, narrowly elliptical, undivided, notched, half-cleft or pinnately divided.

The lobes are cracked, with dense thorn-like sharp teeth growing on the edges, the thorns are long and hard, and there are enlarged round ears at the base. The head inflorescence is about 2 cm in diameter, and the peduncle often has glandular hairs or spider-like hairs in the early stage; the involucre is bell-shaped or cylindrical, long

1.2-1.5 cm; ligulate flowers are yellow, about 1.3 cm long, and the tongue is about 0.5 cm long. Achenes are relatively flat, short, wide and smooth, with three obvious longitudinal ribs on both sides, no transverse stripes and wide edges. Flowering and fruiting period

May to October.

Dipsacus

Basic content

Ecological environment: Grown on roadsides and in wilderness.

Origin: Europe

Invaded areas: Guizhou, Xinjiang, Tibet, Shandong, Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Hubei, Sichuan, Yunnan and other provinces and regions in the Yangtze River Basin.

Transmission route: natural spread.

Damage characteristics: general weeds. It is a common weed in fruit, mulberry, tea gardens and roadsides. It occurs in small quantities and causes moderate damage.

Dipsacus

Basic Information

Chinese name of the species: Dipsacus asper.

Species Latin name: Sonchus asper (L.)Hill.

Chinese name of the genus: Chicory.

Chinese name of the family: Asteraceae.

Latin name: Compositae.

Morphological characteristics: perennial herb.

Minimum altitude: below.

Maximum altitude: 1500

Habitat: wilderness, fields, roadsides.

Domestic distribution: Almost all over the country.

Dipsacus

Drug Description

Medicinal name: Mycorrhiza uralensis.

Chinese Pinyin: dayequmaicai.

English name:

Latin plant, animal and mineral name: Sonchus asdper (L.) Hill. [Sonchusoler-aceus L. var. asper L.]

Efficacy classification: heat-clearing and detoxifying medicine; hemostatic medicine.

Family classification: Asteraceae.

Other names: White flowered thistle, bittercress, round chicory, and patrinia.

Nature and flavor: bitter; cold

Meridians:

Function: Clearing away heat and detoxifying; stopping bleeding.

Indications: sores, swelling and infection; cough and asthma in children; coughing up blood due to tuberculosis.

Dosage and Administration: For internal use: decoction, 9-15g, double the amount for fresh product. For external use: take appropriate amount and mash fresh product for application.

Ecological environment: Grown on roadsides and fields.

Resource distribution: distributed throughout the country.

Medicinal material source: the whole herb or root of the Asteraceae plant Dipsacus asper.

Harvesting and storage: Harvested in spring and summer, used fresh or cut into sections and dried.

Preparation method:

Contraindications

Dipsacus

Chemical components of Chinese medicine

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The product contains 9.8% of pentacyclic triterpene alcohol, 16.1% of its acetate and 4.6% of its long-chain fatty acid ester. The triterpenoid components include α-amyrin (4%), β-amyrin (4%),

amyrin 8%, germanicol 6%, ψ-taraxasterol 17%, taraxasterol

Taraxasterol 36%, lupeol 28%; triterpenoid acetates include α-amyrinacetate 3%, β-amyrinacetate 3%.

β-amyrinacetate 8%, germanicolacetate 5%, ψ-taraxasterol acetate

Taraxasterolacetate 19%, Taraxasterolacetate 21%, Lupeol acetate

(lupeolacetate)44%. It has also been reported that the content of C17-35 alkanes 1.7%, C12-32 fatty esters 17.4%, triterpene acetate 1.7% and C17-35 alkanes 1.7% and C12-32 fatty esters 1.7% and C17-35 alkanes ...

16.1%, C22-28 alcohol 19%, sterol 11.7%. In addition, epi-friedelinolacetate, stigmasterol and

(stignasterol), apigenin, luteolin and their 7-glucosides. Chicorylin

(sonchuside) D, E, F, G, H, I, and sonchuionoside (sonchuionoside) A, B, C, icariside (icariside) B.