Description

Polygonum cuspidatum, commonly known as Huzhang in Chinese and Japanese knotweed in English, is a medicinal plant that is widely distributed in eastern Asia whose roots have served for centuries as an important traditional Chinese medicine for dispelling wind-evil, damp elimination, analgesic therapy, relieving coughs, and reducing sputum.

Scientific classitication

Family: Polygonaceae

Genus: Reynoutria

Common Name

Hu Zhang

Reference

Li, C., Zhang, Y., Zheng, L., Zheng, Y., Huang, P., Xiao, X., ... & Wang, X. (2019). Assembly and annotation of a draft genome of the medicinal plant Polygonum cuspidatum. Frontiers in plant science, 10, 1274.