Arctium Lappa has been studied across 21 research domains including 🔬 Inflammation, 🔬 Oncology, 🔥 Metabolic, 🫁 Liver & Detox, 🧘 Stress & Anxiety. The primary research focus is 🔬 Inflammation with 31% of studies addressing this area.
Known as niubangzi / 惡實 in Ayurveda. Karma (actions): Promotes sweating in cold damage with alternating cold and heat, Reduces facial swelling due to wind stroke, Treats wasting-thirst and heat in the middle, Expels water, Prolonged use lightens the body and resists aging, Root: treats toothache, taxation malaria, various wind conditions, weakness and laxity of the feet and legs, wind toxin, welling-abscesses and flat-abscesses, cough damaging the Lung, Lung obstruction, shan-conglomeration and concretion-gatherings, cold qi, and blood accumulation, Root soaked in wine and taken orally dispels wind and malign sores, Combined with leaves, pounded and applied to rod-strike wounds and metal-weapon wounds, permanently prevents wind invasion, Treats vexation and oppression of the face and eyes, weakness of the four limbs, Frees the twelve channel vessels, washes the five zang organs of malign qi, Can be regularly eaten as a vegetable to lighten the body, Root cut like beans, mixed with flour and eaten as a meal, disperses distension and obstruction, Stems and leaves decocted into a bathing solution, removes the crawling-insect sensation in the skin, Pounded with salt flowers and applied to all kinds of swelling toxins.
The following compounds share molecular targets with Arctium Lappa, based on binding affinity data from BindingDB and ChEMBL. Sorted by shared target overlap.
This evidence profile for Arctium Lappa is generated deterministically from 200 PubMed-indexed studies. All data is corpus-verified with Merkle proofs. BiohacksAI does not provide medical advice. Always consult a healthcare professional before starting any supplement regimen.
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