Elephantopus scaber

 Elephantopus scaber

Elephantopus scaber, which is known as prickly-leaves elephant's foot or di dan tou in Chinese, has a multitude of health benefits including wound-healing, fever, dysuria, hepatoprotective, anticancer, antidiabetic, and anti-inflammatory activities (Singh et al., 2005; Daisy et al., 2009;  Ho et al., 2009, 2012; Chan et al., 2015).  According to the Journal of Medicinal Plant Research, E.Scaber had been used in traditional medicine to reduce fever, eliminate bladder stones as well as treat nephritis, chest pain, pneumonia, scabies, arthralgia and leukaemia. Apart from its use as traditional medicine, this plant is also suitable for cooking soups, Di dan tou soup is a common dish on the dining table in my family, to cook soups I use the whole of this plant including the roots.

 

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