Arctium lappa L.Great Burdock Achene Extract.Burdock Seed.Burdock Root.

Plant Description and Habitat of Burdock.

Burdock Root Extract INCI Name Arctium Lappa Extract CAS 84012-13-5 EINECS ELINCS No 281-658-8 Great Burdock Achene Extract photo picture image A biennial, it grows to more than three feet (90 cm). It is well known to little boys who pull off the clinging seed vessels to throw at one another. It is also called Personata, Happy-major and Clot-bur.

The dried root from plants of the first year's growth forms the official drug, but the leaves and fruits (commonly, though erroneously, called seeds) are also used.

The roots are dug in July, and should be lifted with a beet-lifter or a deep-running plough. As a rule they are 12 inches or more in length and about 1 inch thick, sometimes, however, they extend 2 to 3 feet, making it necessary to dig by hand. They are fleshy, wrinkled, crowned with a tuft of whitish, soft, hairy leaf-stalks, grey-brown externally, whitish internally, with a somewhat thick bark, about a quarter of the diameter of the root, and soft wood tissues, with a radiate structure. Burdock root has a sweetish and mucilaginous taste.

Burdock leaves, which are less used than the root, are collected in July. For drying, follow the drying of Coltsfoot leaves. They have a somewhat bitter taste.

The seeds (or fruits) are collected when ripe. They are brownish-grey, wrinkled, about 1/4 inch long and 1/16 inch in diameter. They are shaken out of the head and dried by spreading them out on paper in the sun.

A stout handsome plant, with large, wavy leaves and round heads of purple flowers. It is enclosed in a globular involucre of long stiff scales with hooked tips, the scales being also often interwoven with a white, cottony substance.

The whole plant is a dull, pale green, the stem about 3 to 4 feet and branched, rising from a biennial root. The lower leaves are very large, on long, solid foot-stalks, furrowed above, frequently more than a foot long heart-shaped and of a grey colour on their under surfaces from the mass of fine down with which they are covered. The upper leaves are much smaller, more egg-shaped in form and not so densely clothed beneath with the grey down.
Burdock Root Extract INCI Name Arctium Lappa Extract CAS 84012-13-5 EINECS ELINCS No 281-658-8 Great Burdock Achene Extract photo picture image

Burdock (Arctium lappa L.), also known as Gobo, is a tall biennial herb native to Asia and Europe, but is a widespread weed in New Zealand. A traditional herbal medicine, burdock was formerly listed in the British Pharmaceutical Codex and is widely recorded in most writings on medicinal herbs.

This tall, branching biennial has large, rounded to arrow-shaped leaves and purple flower heads encased in bracts with hooked tips. Burdock can be an invasive weed. Harvest roots after the 1st years growing season, before it goes to seed in its second year.

The plant varies considerably in appearance, and by some botanists various subspecies, or even separate species, have been described, the variations being according to the size of the flower-heads and of the whole plant, the abundance of the whitish cottonlike substance that is sometimes found on the involucres, or the absence of it, the length of the flower-stalks, etc.

The flower-heads are found expanded during the latter part of the summer and well into the autumn: all the florets are tubular, the stamens dark purple and the styles whitish. The plant owes its dissemination greatly to the little hooked prickles of its involucre, which adhere to everything with which they come in contact, and by attaching themselves to coats of animals are often carried to a distance.
Burdock Root Extract INCI Name Arctium Lappa Extract CAS 84012-13-5 EINECS ELINCS No 281-658-8 Great Burdock Achene Extract photo picture image

Habitat of Burdock:
It grows freely throughout England (though rarely in Scotland),China, West Asia on waste ground and about old buildings, by roadsides and in fairly damp places.

Parts Used Medicinally:Dry mature fruit of Arctium lappa L.fruit,roots and rhizome, leaves, seeds

The dried root from plants of the first year's growth forms the official drug, but the leaves and fruits (commonly, though erroneously, called seeds) are also used.

Collection: The roots and rhizome should be unearthed in September or October of the first year, or in the following spring when the flowers appear. The leaves should be harvested before or during early flowering, and the seeds when ripe in late summer.
Burdock Root Extract INCI Name Arctium Lappa Extract CAS 84012-13-5 EINECS ELINCS No 281-658-8 Great Burdock Achene Extract photo picture image

The roots are dug in July, and should be lifted with a beet-lifter or a deep-running plough. As a rule they are 12 inches or more in length and about 1 inch thick, sometimes, however, they extend 2 to 3 feet, making it necessary to dig by hand. They are fleshy, wrinkled, crowned with a tuft of whitish, soft, hairy leaf-stalks, grey-brown externally, whitish internally, with a somewhat thick bark, about a quarter of the diameter of the root, and soft wood tissues, with a radiate structure.

Burdock root has a sweetish and mucilaginous taste.

Burdock leaves, which are less used than the root, are collected in July. For drying, follow the drying of Coltsfoot leaves. They have a somewhat bitter taste.

The seeds (or fruits) are collected when ripe. They are brownish-grey, wrinkled, about 1/4 inch long and 1/16 inch in diameter. They are shaken out of the head and dried by spreading them out on paper in the sun.

Reference:

1.Arctium lappa L.Great Burdock Achene Extract.Burdock Seed.Burdock Root.

last edit date:3rd,Mar.2010.

Available Product

Name:Burdock Root Extract
Serie No:R025.
Specifications:10:1.TLC.
INCI Name:ARCTIUM LAPPA EXTRACT
EINECS/ELINCS No.:281-658-8
CAS:84012-13-5
Chem/IUPAC Name:Arctium Lappa Extract is an extract of the roots of the burdock,Arctium lappa,Compositae

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