Cirsium setidens
StarCirsium setidens
Synonyms: Cirsium setidens f. lanceolatum, Cirsium chanroenicum var. lanceolata, Cirsium chanroenicum var. pinnatifolium, Saussurea setidens, Cirsium setidens f. niveoaraneum, Cirsium setidens var. niveoaraneum, Cirsium setidens var. chanroenicum, Cirsium setidens f. albiflorum, Cirsium chanroenicum, Cirsium setidens var. pinnatifolium
Western Herbalism Properties
Traditional Uses
In Korea Cirsium setidens ('gondre') is best known as a food, its blanched and dried young aerial parts eaten as a seasoned namul and cooked with rice. It also has a documented place in Korean folk medicine, where thistle preparations are used for inflammation, edema and bleeding and for liver and kidney complaints (Korea Journal of Herbology review). Pharmacological work identifies characteristic flavonoids such as pectolinarin and linarin and reports anti-inflammatory and related activities, supporting an anti-inflammatory classification; bleeding- and liver-related folk indications do not map to additional approved descriptors.
Botanical Description
Cirsium setidens is a perennial thistle of the daisy family reaching about 0.5 to 1.5 m tall, with erect, ridged stems arising from a stout rootstock. The leaves are elliptic to oblong, the lower ones stalked and the upper clasping, with finely toothed and weakly spiny margins, green above and paler beneath; the species is notably less fiercely spiny than many thistles. The flower heads are reddish-purple, several borne at the stem tips, each surrounded by overlapping bracts. The fruit is a small achene topped by a feathery pappus. Native to the mountains of the Korean Peninsula, it grows in damp meadows, woodland edges and grassy slopes. Its tender young shoots and leaves are widely gathered as the popular Korean vegetable 'gondre'.
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