High Quality Dipsaci Radix

Dipsacus root, Chinese medicine name. Also known as the monk head, dipsacus perennial plant Dipsacus, dipsacus root, because it can "continue fracture and bone setting" and named. Cut in autumn, remove roots and fibrous roots, with a small fire to half-dry, pile "sweating" to the interior of the green, and then drying. "Yunnan Materia Medica" : "liver, strong bones and muscles, Meridian, stop in the (bones and muscles) pain, placental, treatment of women Leucorrhea, new blood, broken blood stasis, stillbirth, cough blood, Red Turbid

FEATURES: Perennial Plant, 50 to 100 cm high. Stems erect, angulate and shallowly sulcate, densely white pilose, with coarser prickles on ribs. Leaves Opposite; Basal Leaves long-stalked, mostly pinnately parted or 3-lobed, occasionally intact; cauline leaves mostly 3-5 pinnately divided, central lobes largest, elliptic to elliptic-broadly ovate, 8-16 cm long, 3-8 cm wide, apex acuminate, base Cuneate, two side lobes smaller, lower side of base extension into wing; stem tip leaves smaller, 3-lobed, central lobe lanceolate, two side lobes smaller, linear; margin coarsely Serrate, both surfaces densely white appressed pilose, abaxial leaf veins often spiny. Head globose or broadly ellipsoid; involucral bracts several, linear, each flower with an obovate bract, apex pointed coarsely Spiny, margin with green needle hairs; epicalyx densely pilose; Calyx shallowly discoid, with 4 teeth, densely minutely pilose; Corolla Reddish purple, 4 lobed, Lobes ovoid; Stamens 4, inserted on upper part of Corolla Tube, slightly exserted or not exserted outside Corolla; Pistil 1, Ovary Inferior, style slender. Achenes cuneate-oblong, 5-6 mm long, with 4 ribs, Pale Brown, calyx persistent. FLOWERING: 8 ~ 9 MONTHS, FRUITING: 9 ~ 10 months. Perennial plant, up to 2 m high; Taproot 1 or several, Terete, tawny, slightly fleshy on rhizome; stem hollow, with 6-8 ribs, sparsely covered with short, curved prickles. Basal Leaves Sparsely Caespitose, Leaf Blade lycopersicum-pinnatifid, 15-25 cm long, 5-20 cm wide, apical lobes large, ovate, up to 15 cm long, 9 cm wide, bilateral lobes 3-4 pairs, lateral lobes usually obovate or spatulate, lEAF surface covered with white or papillose bristles, abaxially densely covered with bristles along veins; petiole up to 25 cm long; cauline leaves middle to lower part of stem pinnately parted, Middle Lobe Lanceolate, 11 cm long, 5 cm wide, apex acuminate, margin sparsely coarsely serrate, lateral Lobes 2-4 pairs, lanceolate or oblong, Basal leaves and lower cauline leaves with long petioles, upper petioles gradually shorter, upper leaves Lanceolate, undivided or base 3-lobed. Head globose, 2-3 cm in Diam. , Total pedicel up to 55 cm; involucral bracts 5-7, leaflike, lanceolate or linear, Hirsute; bracteoles obovate, 7-11 mm long, apex slightly truncate, pubescent, with a beak tip 3-4 mm long, coracoid apex on both sides densely or sparsely hairy, sparsely hairy; involucre quadrangular-obovate, each side with two longitudinal grooves; calyx quadrangular, dish-shaped, Ca. 1 millimetre long, undivided or 4-lobed to-parted, outside covered with short hairs; Corolla Yellowish or white, Corolla Tube 9-11 mm long, base narrowed into a thin tube, apex 4-lobed, 1 lobe slightly larger, outside pubescent; stamens 4, inserted in Corolla Tube, distinctly exceeding Corolla, filaments flattened, anther elliptic, purple; ovary inferior, style usually shorter than stamens, stigma shortly clavate. Achenes Long obovate-columnar, enclosed in Involucre, Ca. 4 mm long, only tip exserted outside involucre. Flowering 7-9 months, fruiting 9-11 months.

EFFICACY: Main Treatment for rheumatism, Arthralgia, body numbness, skin itching, muscle and pulse stagnation, hand and foot paralysis, speech and Jian.