ABSTRACT
This medicinal herb is the dried aerial (aboveground) parts of Siegesbeckia orientalis L., S. pubescens Makino, or S. glabrescens Makino of the family Compositae. It is mainly grown in the Jiangsu, Sichuan, and Zhejiang provinces of China where it is harvested in the summer, cleaned, dried, and used unprocessed or stir baked with wine (Jiang Su New Medical College, 1977). Traditionally, the herb was used to improve appetite, in wounds to relieve pain, for insect bites, and for numbness in the extremities (Smith and Stuart, 1973). The root and fruit of siegesbeckia are also used for similar purposes. Siegesbeckia is good for treating symptoms of arthralgia (Wind-Cold-Damp) Bi syndromes, and chronic back pain (Dong et al., 1998; Wang, 1994). https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9780203050040/86743b54-459f-4502-a9f1-33f21b13726a/content/figpg418_001_B.jpg" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/>
