牛蒡作为药材利用早已成为我国人民所熟知,但作为一种保健型的根菜对我们来讲还很陌生。不过从原产地和资源分布调查及通过对文献记载的考证可以看出,最早利用牛蒡的保健价值和食用价值的国家是我国。早在西晋年间我国人民就开始将牛蒡作为清热解毒之药而广为利用,以后又作为药材栽培,且有食用,由于牛蒡根味道上的苦、辛、寒需加工至熟方能食用及栽培挖掘上的困难等原因,到了明代已被其它多 Burdock as a medicinal use has long been known to our people, but as a health-based root vegetables is still very strange to us. However, from the survey of origin and distribution of resources and through the research on the literature, it can be seen that the earliest use of burdock health value and edible value of the country is China. As early as in the Western Jin Dynasty, Chinese people started to use burdock as a medicine for detoxification and detoxification, and later they were cultivated as medicinal herbs and consumed. Due to the bitter, Excavation of the difficulties and other reasons, to the Ming Dynasty has been more than