Arctium lappa

Common Name: Arctium fruit, Burdock fruit

Chinese Name: Niubangzi

Specific Name: Fructus arctiiFunction: Dispelling wind and heat, ventilating the lungs and promoting eruption of rash, detoxicating, and benefiting the pharynx. It’s often used for treatment of cold due to wind and heat, coughing with phlegm, headache, sore throat, mumps, and incomplete appearance of rashes, carbuncle, boils, and sores.

H. Ye, C. Li, W. Ye, F. Zeng, Common Chinese Materia Medica: Volume 7, Chemical Industry Press Co., Ltd, p. 210, 2022