A. Burdock seed efficacy:

Burdock seed flavor pungent, bitter, cold. It belongs to the lung and stomach meridian. Efficacy can evacuate wind-heat, detoxification and penetration of rashes, and benefit the pharynx to disperse swelling. It is characterized by external penetration and internal excretion, and the two solutions.

It is often used in the treatment of wind-heat colds, the beginning of warm diseases, impermeable measles, carbuncles, sores and poisons.

Summary of famous writers:

Pearl sac: ? Moistening the lungs and dispersing qi, facilitating the pharynx and diaphragm, and removing wind from the skin.?

The Compendium of Materia Medica: ? Eliminate the poison of spots and rashes.

The Drugs of the World:? It can ascend and descend, and is capable of removing heat and toxins. The bitter flavor can eliminate fire, and the pungent flavor can disperse wind. The main treatment of upper wind phlegm, swelling of the face and eyes, throat, all poisonous heat congestion, saber scrofula, neck phlegm nucleus, blood-heat pox, sometimes line rash, skin addiction rash. Where the lung meridian fire, the lung meridian wind-heat, all appropriate to use this.

The Jade Rowan medicinal solution:? Burdock seed disperses wind-dampness, clearing the throat, the table addictive rashes and steam, diarrhea gas drums and water distension, the evidence of the swelling and pain of the calendar knot.

"Materia Medica":? Pungent and flat. Moistening the lungs to relieve heat, dispersing knots to remove wind, pharyngeal diaphragm, phlegm coughing, eliminating rashes, facilitating bowel movements, line twelve meridians, scattering all swollen sores and ulcers of the poison, the waist and knees stagnation of the gas.

Two, burdock with the application:

1. Used for external wind-heat, cough and sputum unfavorable and sore throat and other evidence. Burdock evacuation of wind-heat, clearing the lungs and pharynx, especially good for the treatment of wind-heat epiglottis. The treatment of wind-heat cold, fever and headache, sore throat, often with honeysuckle, forsythia, Platycodonopsis, Mentha piperita, Thorax, etc., that is, Yin Qiao San.

Zhang Xichun treatment of deficiency fever, or wheezing or coughing, pulse counting and weak, often burdock and yam and used, and then with the raw land, ginseng, ginseng, xuan ginseng, raw ochre, asparagus, licorice, etc., that is, the liziquan drink. Zhang's words? burdock and yam and use, the most good stop cough?

Zhu Liangchun treatment of wind-heat evil poison congestion, tonsillitis, or redness, swelling and pain is more serious, the soup is difficult to get down, commonly used burdock with tangerine terrier, licorice, stiff silkworms, peppermint, XuanShen and other medicines; if phlegm and then add ChuanBei, guaPiaoPi, orange red and other medicines can be used as a reference.

2. It is used for measles at the beginning of the rash, rash and wind-heat rash and other evidence. Burdock can evacuate wind-heat and drain heat-toxin. It is often combined with honeysuckle, mint, and thorns. If the congestion of heat and toxin, it is often combined with large green leaves, comfrey, ascending hemp and other medicines.

Justice of the Materia Medica:? Where the lung evil is suitable for penetration, but not suitable for the suppression of descending, such as measles at the beginning is not yet released, early investment in clearing and descending, there is always a suppression of the qi, leading to the risk of internal trapping. But burdock seed is clear and cathartic, since it can penetrate the hair. And damp-heat disease, stool since the pass, can also slightly kill its potential, so burdock most of the measles of the special medicine.

3. Used for feverish sores, mumps and constipation. Burdock can clear heat and detoxification, dissipate swelling, but also through the large intestine. Where heat and phlegm blocked in the upper focus of the bowels and bowel obstruction, with which can be collected? The bottom of the cauldron? The effect, can be said to kill two birds with one stone. Often accompanied by the blue root, forsythia, wild chrysanthemum and other drugs.

Three, burdock dosage:

Burdock often into the decoction, but also do pills. Into the decoction commonly used amount of a few grams to more than ten grams.

It is very hard, not fried with the medicinal properties of the difficult to develop, so suitable for fried incense mashed application.

Four, burdock application note:

Burdock flavor bitter cold, have the disadvantage of slippery bowel, so the gas deficiency loose stools should not be used.

Feverish disease and hope that its external through the internal leakage of the appropriate, cold or spleen Yang Su deficiency can not be invested.

Wang Ang said:? The nature of cold and slippery, acne deficiency cold diarrhea should not be served.