Plant Details

Accepted name:: Dipsacus asper Wall. ex DC. [Caprifoliaceae]
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Source:: World Checklist of Vascular Plants

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
ch'uan huan	Other	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
chian hua	Other	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
chieh ku	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
chuan kian	Other	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
chuan xu duan	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
chuanxuduan	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Maonan People in China (Hong et al., 2015)
chuen suh twan	Other	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
dipsaci radix	Pharmaceutical	Hong Kong Chinese Materia Med. Standards (2014) Korean Herbal Pharmacop. (2002) Pharmacop. of China (2010) Pharmacop. of China (2015)
himalayan teasel root	Other	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005) Pharmacop. of China (2005) Pharmacop. of China (2010)
hsii tuan	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016) Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
hsu tuan	Other	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
japanese teasel	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
radix dipsaci	Pharmaceutical	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005) Pharmacop. of China (2005)
sichuan dipsacus	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
sichuan teasel	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
sichuan-kardvädd	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
tục đoạn	Other	Pl. & Animal in Trad. Med., Viet Nam (Ngoc Van & Tap, 2008)
xu duan	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005) TCM Pl. for Syst. Bio. Evaluation (Eisenberg et al., 2011) WHODrug Herbal Substances, Suppl. 2023 (WHO-UMC, 2023)
xuduan	Other	Hong Kong Chinese Materia Med. Standards (2014) Pharmacop. of China (2005) Pharmacop. of China (2010) Pharmacop. of China (2015) Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)
川续断	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Maonan People in China (Hong et al., 2015)
續斷	Other	Hong Kong Chinese Materia Med. Standards (2014)
续断	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) TCM Pl. for Syst. Bio. Evaluation (Eisenberg et al., 2011) Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
root	dried root	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005)
Seed, Root		Med. Pl. Used by Maonan People in China (Hong et al., 2015)
Radix		Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)
root		WHODrug Herbal Substances, Suppl. 2023 (WHO-UMC, 2023)
root		Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
Root		Pl. & Animal in Trad. Med., Viet Nam (Ngoc Van & Tap, 2008)
root	dried root	Pharmacop. of China (2005)
root		Korean Herbal Pharmacop. (2002)
root		Hong Kong Chinese Materia Med. Standards (2014)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 10 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Dipsacus asperoides C.Y.Cheng & T.M.Ai Acta Phytotax. Sin. 23: 304 (1985).
Dipsacus asperoides var. emeiensis Z.T.Yin Acta Phytotax. Sin. 23: 306 (1985).
Dipsacus cyanocapitatus C.Y.Cheng & T.M.Ai Bull. Bot. Res., Harbin 10(3): 10 (1990).
Dipsacus daliensis T.M.Ai Bull. Bot. Res., Harbin 10(3): 6 (1990).
Dipsacus daliensis var. multifidus H.B.Chen Bull. Bot. Res., Harbin 10(3): 8 (1990).
Dipsacus enshiensis C.Y.Cheng & T.M.Ai Bull. Bot. Res., Harbin 8(4): 85 (1988).
Dipsacus kangdingensis Ai & X.F.Feng Bull. Bot. Res., Harbin 15: 40 (1995).
Dipsacus simaoensis Y.Y.Qian Acta Bot. Austro Sin. 7: 17 (1991).
Dipsacus yulongensis Ai & L.J.Yang Bull. Bot. Res., Harbin 15: 38 (1995).
Virga aspera (Wall. ex DC.) Holub Folia Geobot. Phytotax. 8: 175 (1973).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Dipsacus asper	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016) Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015) Substances in Meds., Australia (TGA, 2007) Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)
Dipsacus asper DC.	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
Dipsacus asper Wall.	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020) Pl. & Animal in Trad. Med., Viet Nam (Ngoc Van & Tap, 2008) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Dipsacus asper Wall. ex DC.	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) WHODrug Herbal Substances 2024 (WHO-UMC, 2024) WHODrug Herbal Substances, Suppl. 2023 (WHO-UMC, 2023)
Dipsacus asper Wall. ex Henry	Hong Kong Chinese Materia Med. Standards (2014) Pharmacop. of China (2010) Pharmacop. of China (2015)
Dipsacus asper Wallich	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Dipsacus asperoides C. Y. Cheng at T. M. Ai	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005)
Dipsacus asperoides C. Y. Cheng et T. M. Ai	Pharmacop. of China (2005)
Dipsacus asperoides C. Y. Cheng et T. M. Ai (	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Dipsacus asperoides C. Y. Cheng et T. M. Ai.	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Dipsacus asperoides C. Y.Cheng et T. M. Ai	TCM Pl. for Syst. Bio. Evaluation (Eisenberg et al., 2011)
Dipsacus asperoides C.Y. Cheng & Ai	Med. Pl. Used by Maonan People in China (Hong et al., 2015)
Dipsacus asperoides C.Y. Cheng et T.M.	WHODrug Herbal Substances 2019 (WHO-UMC, 2019)
Dipsacus asperoides C.Y.Cheng & T.M.Ai	World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Dipsacus asperoides C.Y.Cheng et T.M.Ai	Korean Herbal Pharmacop. (2002)

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