Asteraceae FAMILY

Eupatorium chinense

Edibility

2/5

Medicinal

2/5

Safety & Hazards

This plant is poisonous, especially the leaves, but it is used medicinally to treat large carbuncles, scabies, poisonous snake bites, and to alleviate pain[ 266 Title Flora of China Publication Author Website http://flora.huh.harvard.edu/china/ Publisher Missouri Botanical Garden Press; St. Louis. Year 1994 ISBN Description An excellent, comprehensive resource in 25 volumes. In addition to the botanical information the flora also gives basic information on habitat and some uses. An on-line version is also available. ].

Botanical Description

Eupatorium chinense is a plant of variable habit, ranging from a herbaceous perennial to a small shrub. It produces a number of well-branched stems that are woody at least in their lower part; the plant ranging in height from 50 - 250cm, but more commonly 100cm or less[ 266 Title Flora of China Publication Author Website http://flora.huh.harvard.edu/china/ Publisher Missouri Botanical Garden Press; St. Louis. Year 1994 ISBN Description An excellent, comprehensive resource in 25 volumes. In addition to the botanical information the flora also gives basic information on habitat and some uses. An on-line version is also available. ]. The plant is gathered from the wild, mainly for medicinal purposes.

Habitat & Origin

Origintemperate; tropical

Native RangeE. Asia - China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam.

HabitatMountains all over Japan. Open and deforested areas at elevations of 2,000 - 2,600 metres in Nepal[ 272 Title Plants and People of Nepal Publication Author Manandhar. N. P. Publisher Timber Press. Oregon. Year 2002 ISBN 0-88192-527-6 Description Excellent book, covering over 1,500 species of useful plants from Nepal together with information on the geography and peoples of Nepal. Good descriptions of the plants with terse notes on their uses. ]. Forest margins on slopes, forests, thickets or grasslands on slopes at elevations of 200 - 1,900 metres in China[ 266 Title Flora of China Publication Author Website http://flora.huh.harvard.edu/china/ Publisher Missouri Botanical Garden Press; St. Louis. Year 1994 ISBN Description An excellent, comprehensive resource in 25 volumes. In addition to the botanical information the flora also gives basic information on habitat and some uses. An on-line version is also available. ].