1, xanthium sibiricum, scientific name of traditional Chinese medicine. Alias: Horsehead, Xanthium sibiricum, Laozai, Xiaozai. It belongs to the fruit with involucre of Xanthium sibiricum in panicum miliaceum of Compositae. Xanthium sibiricum is a commonly used Chinese herbal medicine, which has the effects of expelling wind, removing dampness and inducing resuscitation.

2. Xanthium sibiricum is pungent, bitter and warm. Toxic. Expelling pathogenic wind and dampness, dredging nasal orifices, relieving pain and killing insects. Can be used for treating wind-cold headache, nasal congestion and runny nose, toothache, wind-cold-dampness arthralgia, limb contracture pain, and scabies and itching.

3. The stems and leaves of Xanthium sibiricum are bitter, pungent and cool. A little poisonous. Dispel wind and heat, detoxify and kill insects. Can be used for treating head wind, dizziness, damp arthralgia, conjunctival congestion, furuncle, metrorrhagia, and leprosy.

4. Xanthium sibiricum root is used for furuncle, carbuncle, larynx, erysipelas, hypertension and dysentery.