Burdock (scientific name: Arctium lappa) Burdock Asteraceae plants, also known as Oriental ginseng, Oriental dishes bullwhip, white muscle ginseng, Wu, Wu cap, Yasha head of cattle food, sticky mouse, burdock Weng dish, then cows bat thorns, beside cattle, then south cattle, fruit aliases real evil, and vigorously son.

The nutritional value
Burdock fiber can promote bowel movements and help defecation, lower cholesterol, reduce toxins, waste accumulation in the body, to prevent stroke and prevention of gastric cancer, uterine cancer.
Burdock root contains a variety of essential amino acids, and the higher levels, especially high amino acid content has a special pharmacological effects, such as brain function has a total amino acid aspartic acid 25% to 28% arginine accounting for 18% to 20%, and containing Ca, Mg, Fe, Mn, Zn and other macro elements and trace elements essential; its polyphenols have anti-cancer, anti-mutagenic effects, and thus has a very high nutritional value and broader pharmacological activity.
Burdock leaf containing volatile oils, tannins, phlegmatic, caffeic acid, chlorogenic acid, chlorogenic acid. Burdock fruit contains burdock glycosides, fatty oils, sterols, thiamine, burdock phenol and other chemical ingredients, fatty oil accounted for 25% to 30%, an iodine value of 138.83, can be used for industrial oil; pharmacological experiments show that burdock glycosides dilation of blood vessels, lower blood pressure, anti-bacterial, and can treat hot to cold, a variety of diseases and the elderly anti sore throat, mumps dementia.