{{speciestitle}}'''Qustul hindi''' adalah spesies tumbuhan dalam genus Saussurea yang berasal dari India. Minyak atsiri yang diekstraksi dari akarnya telah lama dimanfaakan dalam pengobatan tradisional dan wewangian sejak dahulu kala.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/841013792|title=Taxonomy of angiosperms.|last=Sambamurty, A. V. S. S.|date=2005|publisher=I.K. International|isbn=81-88237-16-7|location=New Delhi|oclc=841013792}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Lohberger|first=Birgit|last2=Rinner|first2=Beate|last3=Stuendl|first3=Nicole|last4=Kaltenegger|first4=Heike|last5=Steinecker-Frohnwieser|first5=Bibiane|last6=Bernhart|first6=Eva|last7=Rad|first7=Ehsan Bonyadi|last8=Weinberg|first8=Annelie Martina|last9=Leithner|first9=Andreas|date=2013-06-14|title=Sesquiterpene Lactones Downregulate G2/M Cell Cycle Regulator Proteins and Affect the Invasive Potential of Human Soft Tissue Sarcoma Cells|url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3682952/|journal=PLoS ONE|volume=8|issue=6|doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0066300|issn=1932-6203|pmc=3682952|pmid=23799090}}</ref> Genus ''Saussurea'' tergolong ke dalam famili Asteraceae yang terdiri dari sekitar 300 spesies di dunia di mana 61 spesiesnya ditemukan di India.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Kour|first=Sumeet, et al.|year=2015|title=Conservation Strategies of Saussurea costus, Critically Endangered Medicinal Herb Growing in Kashmir Himalaya-A Review|url=https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Conservation-Strategies-of-Saussurea-Costus-%2C-Herb-Kour-Singh/f4cf8e4ac42b31dadbd7816b0f1efe4bf14725eb|journal=International Journal of Science and Research|volume=4|issue=7|pages=257-260|doi=}}</ref> Aucklandia, yang juga dikenal sebagai ''costus'' atau ''mu xiang,'' adalah akar dari tumbuhan ''Saussurea costus''. Akar tumbuhan ini adalah bagian inti dari pengobatan dengan khasiat hemoepati.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.cengage.com/search/productOverview.do;jsessionid=33F07A03A4142626250970D32113FF0B?N=197+4294921852&Ntk=P_EPI&Ntt=862687832195722111820180607204526579&Ntx=mode%2Bmatchallpartial|title=The Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine|last=Tish|first=Davidson|date=2014|publisher=Gale|isbn=1410394336|editor-last=Fundukian|editor-first=Laurie|volume=1|location=|pages=197-198|url-status=live}}</ref>
Tumbuhan ini punya sejumlah nama lokal dalam bahas lain, termasuk ''kustha'' (Sanskrit), ''kust'' atau ''qust'' (Arab dan Persia), ''kut, kur,'' dan ''pachak'' (Hindi dan Bengali), ''kostum'', ''gostham'', dan ''pocuk'' (Tamil), ''upaleta'' dan ''kur'' (Gujarat), ''kot'' atau ''kust'' (Punjabi), ''changala'' (Telugu), ''sepuddy'' (Malayalam), ''kostha'' (Kannada), ''kuth'' atau ''postkhai'' (Kashmir), dan ''kosht'' (Hebrew).<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last=Madhuri|first=K.|last2=Elango|first2=K.|last3=Ponnusankar|first3=S.|date=2012-03|title=Saussurea lappa (Kuth root): review of its traditional uses, phytochemistry and pharmacology|url=http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s13596-011-0043-1|journal=Oriental Pharmacy and Experimental Medicine|language=en|volume=12|issue=1|pages=1–9|doi=10.1007/s13596-011-0043-1|issn=1598-2386}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Kuniyal|first=Chandra P.|last2=Rawat|first2=Yashwant S.|last3=Oinam|first3=Santaram S.|last4=Kuniyal|first4=Jagdish C.|last5=Vishvakarma|first5=Subhash C. R.|date=2005-05|title=Kuth (Saussurea lappa) cultivation in the cold desert environment of the Lahaul valley, northwestern Himalaya, India: arising threats and need to revive socio-economic values|url=http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10531-004-4365-x|journal=Biodiversity and Conservation|language=en|volume=14|issue=5|pages=1035–1045|doi=10.1007/s10531-004-4365-x|issn=0960-3115}}</ref>
