What are the medicinal values ​​of thistle

Maybe many of us don’t know much about the medicinal value of baby thistle. It is a very good food. It has a very good effect on detecting and killing pathogens and bacteria. It can effectively prevent us from getting colds. It can also effectively prevent some fungi from causing skin infections. Let us popularize the medicinal value and effects of baby thistle in detail.

Great burdock is also known as tiger thistle and horse thistle. It is called tiger burdock and mountain radish in South China, thousand-needle grass and wild safflower in East China, sow thorn and chicken thorn in Fujian, and local safflower in Sichuan. The great burdock is a perennial herbaceous plant of the Asteraceae family; the roots are clustered and long spindle-shaped; the stem is 50-100 cm high, with longitudinal stripes and densely covered with white soft hairs; the leaves are alternate, the radicular leaves are obovate-oblong, 15-30 cm long, deeply pinnate, with 5-6 pairs of lobes, pointed at the apex, with unequal shallow cracks and thorns on the edges, gradually narrowing at the base to form flat petioles with wings on both sides, the cauline leaves are smaller, clasping the stem at the base, and the lower surface is densely covered with white cotton hairs; the flowers are bisexual, the capitula are solitary at the end of the branches, the corolla is all tubular, and purple-red.

Thistle is also known as cat thistle, prickly thistle, prickly thistle, thorny thistle, and prickly thistle. Small thistle is a perennial herb of the Asteraceae family. It has no spindle-shaped tubers, but slender roots. The stem is erect, 25-60 cm high, green with purple, and covered with white soft hairs. The leaves are alternate, oblong-lanceolate, 7-11 cm long, 1-3 cm wide, with short tips. The leaves are entire or sparsely serrated, and the degree of serration is much shallower than that of the great thistle. Each tooth has small golden thorns, which are also not as long as the thorns of the great thistle. Both sides of its leaves are covered with white soft hairs. The inflorescence is terminal, the flowers are unisexual, and dioecious, which is different from the great thistle.

In clinical Chinese medicine, it is believed that both Great Thistle and Small Thistle have the function of cooling blood and stopping bleeding, and can treat bleeding diseases caused by blood heat. Both of them have the function of dissipating carbuncles and swellings, and can treat hot and toxic sores and carbuncles. However, Great Thistle is good at dispersing blood stasis and reducing swelling, while Small Thistle is good at treating symptoms such as stranguria and hematuria. As recorded in the Compendium of Materia Medica: "Big thistle is better at dispersing and eliminating carbuncle; small thistle is specialized in breaking blood and relieving stranguria." The New Compendium of Materia Medica says: "Although the leaves of big and small thistle are similar, their functions are different. Big thistle grows in valleys and its roots can cure carbuncle, while small thistle grows in marshes and cannot reduce swelling, but both can break blood."

The most important medicinal value of baby thistle is that it can help some elderly friends lower blood pressure and blood lipids. Our elderly friends must reduce the intake of oily foods and eat more fruits and vegetables. The effect is very good. They must also eat more baby thistle to experience deliciousness and gain health.