| Family Name | Araceae |
| Scientific name | Lasia Spinosa |
| Common name | The wild Cigu, mountain Cigu |
| Growth habit | usually born in damp and dark valley, moor, ponds, bushes, Tanabe |
| Leaf | with different shape , oval when young, when it grow bigger it will turns a pinnate shaped, fleshy bristles on the dorsal veins |
| Flower | Bisexual flowers ; with 4-6 tepals , obovate |
| Fruit | Conical fruits, the top is in square because of mutual compression, with convex thorn |
| More to learn | It can be Dried for traditional Chinese medicine, the role of young leaves available plant-based diet, similarly it is good for swelling and pain, diuretic, stomachic |
| Properties | Spicy and slightly bitter, cool. Anti-inflammatory, analgesic, stomachic |
| Treats | Chronic gastritis, dyspepsia, rheumatoid arthritis; topical treatment of snakebite, lymphadenitis, lymph node tuberculosis. |
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