Botany
Badok is a wooly, extremely variable annual herb, 10 to 40 cm in height. Leaves are wooly on both surfaces, linear-spatulate or oblong-spatulate, 2.5 to 5 cm long, 0.3 to 1 cm wide, and blunt-tipped. Inflorescences are terminal, bearing crowded clusters of glistening, yellow heads. Involucral bracts are oblong. Achenes are tubercled or have minute curved bristles.

Distribution
- In open places, chiefly at medium altitudes, ascending to 2,400 meters.
- In Ifugao, Lepanto, Bontoc, Benguet Subprovinces; in Cagayan, Pangasinan and the Camarines Provinces in Luzon.
- Occurs in India to China, Japan and Taiwan, and southward to Borneo.

Properties
Considered astrringent, cholagogue, diuretic, febrifuge, hemostatic and vulnerary.

Constituents
Study has yielded protective flavonoids, calycopterin and 3'-methoxycalycopterin from the leaf wax.

Parts used
Leaves.

Uses
Folkloric
In the Punjab leaves are used as vulnerary and astringent.
In Pakistan, used as anti-diarrheal.
Used as a counter-irritant for gout.
In Bangladesh, plant is used by the Garo tribe, crushed along with dried fish and applied as a poultice to heal fractured bones.

Availability
Wild-crafted.

Additional Sources and Suggested Readings
(1)
Review: Advances in flavonoid research since 1992 / Jeffry Harborne, Christine Williams / Phytochemistry 55 (2000) 481-504
(2)
PLANTS OF POTENTIAL MEDICINAL VALUE / uicnmed.org
(3)
Medicinal plants of the Garo tribe inhabiting the Madhupur forest region of Bangladesh / Manzur-ul-Kadir Mia, Mohammad Fahim Kadir et al / American-Euras ian Journal of Sus tainable Agriculture, 3(2): 165-171, 2009