"Compendium of Materia Medica" says that "Burdock" (also known as Popeye, Batthorn and Black Radish) is a biennial herb. Its progeny and roots can be used as medicine and food. The Classic of Materia Medica calls it "three essential drugs for expelling wind, clearing away heat and detoxifying". Compendium of Materia Medica says that "it can help the twelve meridians to wash away the evil spirits of the five internal organs" and "taking it for a long time can strengthen the body and resist aging". Burdock enjoys the reputation of the king of vegetables and can be compared with ginseng in Japan. It is a health care product with high nutritional value. It is full of treasures, and its meat has a special taste. Rich in protein, fat, cellulose, calcium, phosphorus, iron and other minerals and amino acids needed by human body. Among them, the content of carotene is 280 times that of carrot, and the contents of vitamin B and vitamin C are also high, as well as inulin unique to compositae plants. According to the official mall of Tianyi International Group in Tian Li, the company has dozens of burdock products, such as burdock tea, burdock sauce, burdock crisp, burdock dietary fiber, burdock tea beverage, etc., which are deeply loved by the majority of Chinese people. It can be seen that the rich nutrition and specific functions of burdock really have the magic power that people can't put it down.

According to authoritative works such as "Cherish Famous Vegetables" and "Vegetable Cultivation", regular consumption of burdock root can promote blood circulation, remove gastrointestinal waste, prevent premature aging of skin, moisturize skin, prevent stroke and hypertension, clear intestines and detoxify, and reduce cholesterol and blood sugar, which is suitable for diabetic patients to eat for a long time (because burdock root contains inulin). It has a certain curative effect on rheumatoid diseases and fungi, and also has a good preventive and inhibitory effect on cancer and uremia. Therefore, it is regarded as the best blood-clearing agent in nature, and burdock is regarded as a sacred product for tonifying kidney, strengthening yang and nourishing by the people of Taiwan Province Province.

Dr. Al Stell, a famous American health care expert, pointed out in his book "Anti-aging Canon" that "the root of burdock is deeply loved by people all over the world, and it is considered as a mild nutritious herb, which can help the human body to maintain a good working condition (suitable and practical from childhood to old). Burdock can eat the sun without any side effects. It is an important herb and can restore the balance of the body system. Herbologists regard it as a cancer treatment agent, and also as a digestive agent and solution with outstanding curative effect.

The following are some specific functions of burdock:

① Powerful:

Burdock active substances can stimulate cell proliferation, enhance cell vitality, promote body growth and improve endurance and physical strength; It can also improve basal metabolic rate and ensure energy supply, thus improving endurance, physical strength and energy.

② Antibacterial and antifungal effects:

Polyacetylenes in the root of Arctium lappa L. have good antibacterial and antifungal effects, and chlorogenic acid has certain inhibitory effects on Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus, Bacillus subtilis and Micrococcus luteus when it reaches a certain concentration.

③ Anti-mutation and anticancer effects:

Burdock root contains many kinds of polyphenols, such as caffeic acid, chlorogenic acid and isochlorogenic acid. It is generally believed that they all have anti-mutation and anti-cancer effects. Experiments have proved that there may be a positive correlation between the anti-mutation ability of Arctium lappa root and its polyphenol content. Inulin is widely found in compositae plants including burdock, which has a wide range of activities and anti-tumor function.

④ Anti-aging effect:

After the root of Arctium lappa L. was boiled and concentrated, it was found that SOD activity in liver tissue and serum of rats increased significantly, while MDA content in brain tissue and serum decreased significantly, suggesting that Arctium lappa L. root has anti-aging effect.

⑤ Function of removing heavy metal ions:

Heavy metal pollution in the environment will enter the human body through the food chain, causing many diseases. Burdock root has a strong adsorption and scavenging effect on heavy metal ions, and its adsorption capacity is Pb (lead) > Cd (cadmium) > Hg (mercury) > (calcium) > Zn (zinc).

⑥ Aspartic acid and arginine contained in the root of Arctium lappa have brain-nourishing effects.

Burdock inulin has the effect of treating coronary heart disease and diabetes. Chlorogenic acid can also resist HIV and allergy.

⑦ Prevention and treatment of diabetic nephropathy:

Arctium lappa can obviously improve the symptoms of STZ-induced diabetic rats, reduce urinary albumin excretion rate, reduce kidney weight/body weight ratio, glomerular PAS staining positive matrix area ratio, alleviate renal pathological damage, and have certain preventive and therapeutic effects on early renal lesions in diabetic rats.

8 antitussive and mitogenic effects:

A low molecular weight fructan was obtained from burdock root. It shows the same antitussive activity as some non-narcotic synthetic preparations used to treat cough in clinic in the antitussive experiment of cats, and its biological reaction is equivalent to that of commercial yeast polysaccharide immunomodulator in the mitogenic experiment.

Pet-name ruby liver protection:

The aqueous extract of Arctium lappa L. root has protective effect on liver injury induced by carbon tetrachloride or acetaminophen in mice, which can reduce the levels of SGOT and SGPT in a dose-dependent manner and alleviate the degree of liver injury from histopathology. The water extract of Arctium lappa root also has protective effect on liver injury caused by chronic drinking and liver injury aggravated by carbon tetrachloride. The mechanism of liver protection may be that the root of Arctium lappa L. has antioxidant effect and can remove toxic metabolites such as carbon tetrachloride in liver cells.

Attending differentiation inducer:

Burdock lignans can induce the differentiation of mouse bone marrow leukemia (M 1). A series of derivatives were obtained by structural modification of arctigenin, the main active component, and the structure-activity relationship was studied The fatty ester of arctigenin has stronger differentiation effect on M 1 than the aromatic ester, and the n-decanoate ester has the strongest activity, which can induce more than 50% of M 1 cells to differentiate into phagocytes at the concentration of 2Lm01/L.

The position and significance of burdock in dietotherapy;

Dietotherapy has a thousand-year-old custom foundation in China. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that food and medicine have the same origin, and the food is spicy, sweet, sour, bitter, salty, cold and hot, and can also cure diseases. Not only that, diet therapy precedes drug treatment. For example, Sun Simiao clearly stated in "A Thousand Daughters' Prescription" that "a husband is a doctor, he should know the source of the disease, know what he has committed, treat it with food, and then order medicine after the dietotherapy has not healed", which put dietotherapy in a very important position. Burdock has been playing an important role in maintaining and improving human health. In recent decades, both men and women have used burdock to cure diseases and prolong life. It is necessary to reduce the habit of eating meat, both physically and psychologically, so as to adapt ourselves to a healthy, therapeutic and preventive diet. The World Health Organization suggests that people's ideal diet is low in fat, high in fiber and rich in comprehensive carbohydrates. The continuous promotion and development of burdock series products represented by brands such as Tian Li, Niu Qilai and Baiyi Baishun will surely make positive contributions to the health of Chinese people.