Carpesium divaricatum
StarCarpesium divaricatum
Western Herbalism Properties
Traditional Uses
In China, Korea and Japan Carpesium divaricatum (Chinese 'jin wa er') has long been used as a traditional medicine and seasonal food. Whole-plant preparations have been applied as antipyretic, analgesic, anti-inflammatory and antiparasitic remedies, used for the common cold, fevers, toothache, sore throat, parasitic infestations, diarrhea and urinary tract infections (East Asian materia medica; Wajs-Bonikowska et al., 2019).
Botanical Description
Carpesium divaricatum is a perennial herb of the family Asteraceae native to eastern Asia, including China, Korea, Japan and the Russian Far East, where it grows along forest margins, in grassy clearings, on slopes and in disturbed moist ground. It forms an erect, branching plant 30 to 100 cm tall, with the upper stems often widely spreading (divaricate), as the name suggests. The leaves are alternate, ovate to lance-shaped, with toothed or entire margins, the lower ones stalked and the upper becoming sessile, and the foliage is more or less softly hairy and aromatic. The flower heads are small, nodding, yellow and discoid, lacking conspicuous ray florets, and are borne singly at the ends of branches subtended by leafy bracts. The fruit is a slender, ribbed achene tipped with a sticky, glandular beak that aids dispersal by clinging to animals. The plant is rich in germacrane-type sesquiterpene lactones.
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