本品为菊科植物苣荬菜的干燥全草。苣荬菜一名最早见于《植物名实图考》,载:“北地极多,亦曰甜苣,长根肥白微红,味苦回甘……其叶长数寸,锯齿森森,中露白脉,花开正如蒲公英。”《救荒本草》载:“苦苣菜,俗名天精菜。今处处有之,苗塌地生,其叶光者似黄花苗,叶花者似山苦荬,茎叶中有白汁。”别名取麻菜(华北)、野苦荬(广东)。北败酱草为多年生草本植物,均为野生,多生于田边、路边、 This product is Compositae Endive dry vegetables. Echizenia was first seen in the “plant name map examination,” contains: “North to the very many, also said that sweet sativa, root fat reddish red, bitter sweet ... ... its leaves a few inches long, jagged , In the exposed white veins, blooming just as dandelion. ”“ Save the wasteland Materia Medica ”contains: “ Chicory vegetables, common name of the finest vegetables. Now there are everywhere, Miaolaodi land, its light like yellow seedlings, Like bitter mountain, stems and leaves in the white juice. ”Alias ​​take Maple (North), wild bitter (Guangdong). North Patrinia grass for perennial herbs, are wild, born in Tanabe, roadside,