Adenocaulon himalaicum
StarAdenocaulon himalaicum
Synonyms: Adenocaulon adhaerescens
Western Herbalism Properties
Traditional Uses
In East Asian folk medicine the leaves, roots and other parts of Adenocaulon himalaicum have traditionally been used to treat abscesses, bleeding (haemorrhage) and inflammation, while in Korea the young leaves are also gathered and eaten as a wild vegetable, boiled or in soup (Kim et al., 2021).
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Botanical Description
Adenocaulon himalaicum, the Asian trailplant, is a slender perennial herb of the daisy family native to the temperate forests of East and South Asia, including China, Japan, Korea, India and Nepal, and naturalised as a weed in the Russian Far East. It grows from a short rhizome with an erect, sparingly branched stem to about 30-100 cm. The broadly triangular to heart-shaped basal and lower leaves are green above and conspicuously white-woolly beneath, on long petioles, becoming much reduced upward. The tiny whitish flower heads are borne in an open, glandular-hairy panicle and produce club-shaped achenes covered with stalked, sticky glands that adhere to passing animals for dispersal, a feature reflected in the genus name. It grows in moist, shaded forest understorey and along streamsides.
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