Plant Details

Accepted name:

Dolomiaea costus (Falc.) Kasana & A.K.Pandey [Asteraceae]

Source of taxonomy and confidence:

World Checklist: unpublished records ( )

Information about this plant:

Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
agada	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
amaya	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Siddha Pharmacopoeia India, vol. 1 (2008)
apya	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
aucklandia	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
aucklandiae radix	Pharmaceutical	Korean Herbal Pharmacopoeia (2002) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010) Pharmacopoeia of China (2015) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
bhasura	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
cengala	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
chagal koshtam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
changal	Other	Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
changal kustha	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Siddha Pharmacopoeia India, vol. 1 (2008)
changala	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
changalva koshtu	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Siddha Pharmacopoeia India, vol. 1 (2008)
chengulva	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
chob-i-kud	Other	Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
common aucklandia root	Other	Pharmacopoeia of China (2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010)
costus	Other	Commonly Traded CITES-Listed Species in Primer (AHPA, 2013) GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Medicinal Plant Marketing in Bangladesh (Dixie et al., 2003) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
costus root	Other	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
costus root oil	Other	Food Chemicals Codex (USP, 2008)
dushta	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
gada	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
gadakhya	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
gadavha	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
gadavhaya	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
goshtam	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
gostan	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
gostham	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
haribhadraka	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
indische kostuswurzel	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999)
ja	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
jarana	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
jathikoshtam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kadakhya	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kakala	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kankushta	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
karwa koth	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kashmirja	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
kashtam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kasmira	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kasmirja	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999)
katakuvayam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kath	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Siddha Pharmacopoeia India, vol. 1 (2008) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
kaubera	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kinjalka	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
koostha	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
koot	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kootha	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
koshta	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
koshtam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
koshtha	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
koshtham	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011)
kosta	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kostam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
kostamu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kostha	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kostu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kostum	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kosuta	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kot	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
kottam	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Siddha Pharmacopoeia India, vol. 1 (2008) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
kud	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Siddha Pharmacopoeia India, vol. 1 (2008) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
kudha	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Siddha Pharmacopoeia India, vol. 1 (2008) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
kudo	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Siddha Pharmacopoeia India, vol. 1 (2008) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
kungsskära	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999)
kur	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Medicinal Plant Marketing in Bangladesh (Dixie et al., 2003) Siddha Pharmacopoeia India, vol. 1 (2008) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
kura	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kurā	Other	Siddha Pharmacopoeia India, vol. 1 (2008)
kushta	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
kushtam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kushtamu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kushtha	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) Medicinal Plant Marketing in Bangladesh (Dixie et al., 2003) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
kushthh	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kust	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
kustam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
kustha	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kusthah	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kustham	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kut	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
kutavapiritam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kuth	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008) GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Med. Pl. for Respiratory Disorders in Abbottabad (Kayani et al., 2014) Med. Pl. in Alpine and Sub-Alpine Pakistan (Kayani et al., 2015) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) Medicinal Plant Marketing in Bangladesh (Dixie et al., 2003) Siddha Pharmacopoeia India, vol. 1 (2008) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
kutha	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Siddha Pharmacopoeia India, vol. 1 (2008)
kuthika	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kutsita	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kutt	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kuṣṭha (root)	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011)
kōḍḍam (root)	Other	Siddha Pharmacopoeia India, vol. 1 (2008)
kōṣḍam	Other	Siddha Pharmacopoeia India, vol. 1 (2008)
mu siang	Other	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
mu xiang	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
muxiang	Other	Homegarden Med. Ethnobot. of Naxi in NW Yunnan (Yang et al., 2014) Hong Kong Chinese Materia Med. Standards (2014) Pharmacopoeia of China (2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010) Pharmacopoeia of China (2015) Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China. (Zhang et al., 2014)
niruja	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
oli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Siddha Pharmacopoeia India, vol. 1 (2008)
ouplet	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
pachak	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
padmaka	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
pakala	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Siddha Pharmacopoeia India, vol. 1 (2008)
pakalam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
palaka	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
paribhadraka	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
paribhavya	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
pauskara	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
pavana	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
pokharmul	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
post khai	Other	Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
puskara	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
puskaramula	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
putchuk	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
pākala	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011)
qaste shireen	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
qost-e-talkh	Other	Traditional Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
quest shirin	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
qust	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Siddha Pharmacopoeia India, vol. 1 (2008) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
qust shirin	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
qust talkh	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
qust-i-talkh	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
qust-shirin	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
radix aucklandiae	Pharmaceutical	Hong Kong Chinese Materia Med. Standards (2014) Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2005)
rama	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
roga	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
rogavhaya	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
ru rta	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
ru-rta	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Monograph on Med. Pl. of Bhutan, vol. 2 (2009)
ruja	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
ruk	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
ruka	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
saussurea root	Other	Japanese Pharmacopoeia 15th edn. (2006) Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 16th edn. (2012)
saussureae radix	Pharmaceutical	Japanese Pharmacopoeia 15th edn. (2006) Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 16th edn. (2012)
seppudday	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
sepuddy	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
simakkottam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
upaleta	Other	Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
uplet	Other	Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008)
upleta	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) Siddha Pharmacopoeia India, vol. 1 (2008) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
utpala	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
utpalam	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
vaniraja	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vapya	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vyadhi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vyapya	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
yun mu xiang	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
āmaya	Other	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011)
قسط تلخ	Other	Traditional Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
モッコウ	Other	Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 16th edn. (2012)
木香	Other	Hong Kong Chinese Materia Med. Standards (2014) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018) Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China. (Zhang et al., 2014)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
root	dried root	Pharmacopoeia of China (2010)
root	dried root	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005)
Radix		Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China. (Zhang et al., 2014)
Root		Homegarden Med. Ethnobot. of Naxi in NW Yunnan (Yang et al., 2014)
Root		Traditional Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
Roots		Med. Pl. for Respiratory Disorders in Abbottabad (Kayani et al., 2014)
Roots, Oil		Med. Pl. in Alpine and Sub-Alpine Pakistan (Kayani et al., 2015)
Roots		Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
root	dried root	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
root		Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
root, oil		Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
root	dried root	Pharmacopoeia of China (2005)
root	oil	Food Chemicals Codex (USP, 2008)
root	root	Japanese Pharmacopoeia 15th edn. (2006)
root	dried root	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011)
root		Korean Herbal Pharmacopoeia (2002)
root	dried root	Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
Root, Stem		Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008)
root		Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 16th edn. (2012)
root	dried root	Siddha Pharmacopoeia India, vol. 1 (2008)
root		Hong Kong Chinese Materia Med. Standards (2014)
Root		Monograph on Med. Pl. of Bhutan, vol. 2 (2009)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 6 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

synonym
Aplotaxis lappa Decne. in V.Jacquemont, Voy. Inde: 4: (1844).
Aucklandia costus Falc. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 6: 475 (1841).
Aucklandia lappa (Decne.) Decne. Icon. Cormophyt. Sin. 4: 643 (1875).
Saussurea costus (Falc.) Lipsch. Bot. Zhurn. (Moscow & Leningrad) 49: 131 (1964).
Saussurea lappa (Decne.) Sch.Bip. Linnaea 19: 331 (1846).
Theodorea costus (Falc.) Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 368 (1891).

This plant is cited in medicinal sources using the following names:

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Aplotaxis lappa	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Aucklandia costus Falc.	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999) WHODrug Herbal Substances, Suppl. 2021 (WHO-UMC, 2021)
Aucklandia lappa Decaisne	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Aucklandia lappa Decne.	Homegarden Med. Ethnobot. of Naxi in NW Yunnan (Yang et al., 2014) Hong Kong Chinese Materia Med. Standards (2014) Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005) Korean Herbal Pharmacopoeia (2002) Pharmacopoeia of China (2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010) Pharmacopoeia of China (2015) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Sanssurea lappa	Medicinal Plant Marketing in Bangladesh (Dixie et al., 2003)
Saussarea lappa	Traditional Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
Saussurea Lappa Clarke	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005)
Saussurea costus	Commonly Traded CITES-Listed Species in Primer (AHPA, 2013) Conservation of Indonesian Medicinal Plants (Cahyaningsih, 2020) Europe's Med. Pl. (Lange, 1998) Substances in Medicines, Australia (TGA, 2007) Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China. (Zhang et al., 2014)
Saussurea costus (Falc.) Lipsch	Med. Pl. in Alpine and Sub-Alpine Pakistan (Kayani et al., 2015)
Saussurea costus (Falc.) Lipsch.	Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008) Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2015) Hagers Handbuch (Hänsel et al., 1992-1998) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Monograph on Med. Pl. of Bhutan, vol. 2 (2009) Siddha Pharmacopoeia India, vol. 1 (2008) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Saussurea costus (Falc.) S.J.Lipschitz	Med. & Pois. Pl. 2 (Valkenburg et al., 1999)
Saussurea lappa	Conservation of Indonesian Medicinal Plants (Cahyaningsih, 2020) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
Saussurea lappa (Decne.) C.B.Clarke	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019)
Saussurea lappa (Decne.) Sch. Bip.	Monograph on Med. Pl. of Bhutan, vol. 2 (2009)
Saussurea lappa (Decne.) Sch.Bip.	Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2015)
Saussurea lappa C.B.Clarke	Ayurvedic Pharm. of India (1999-2011) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (2015) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Saussurea lappa Clarke	Conservation of Indonesian Medicinal Plants (Cahyaningsih, 2020) Food Chemicals Codex (USP, 2008) Japanese Pharmacopoeia 15th edn. (2006) Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 16th edn. (2012) Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Saussurea lappa L.	Med. Pl. for Respiratory Disorders in Abbottabad (Kayani et al., 2014)

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