Benefits: Burdock as a good medicine to evacuate heat, swelling and throat. The burdock itself is bitter and cold, and burdock is close to the efficacy of the burdock, so it is often used to treat the wind and heat colds, coughs, and heat toxicity accumulation caused by constipation, tinnitus, etc., especially for the internal heat caused by pharyngolaryngolaryngolaryngolaryngology, gum swelling and pain, etc. is very effective. Even the young leaves of burdock also have a very good effect on swelling, mashed and applied externally to the red, swollen, hot and painful place, can accelerate the healing.

Bad: burdock tea in drinking should not be too thick, too thick easy to cause fire 5-8 grams per day, constipated people, dieters can increase the discretion to drink burdock tea. Burdock tea can not be cold, cold drinks will lead to diarrhea.

Economic value

Burdock stems and leaves contain volatile oil, tannin, mucilage, caffeic acid, chlorogenic acid, isochlorogenic acid. Burdock fruit contains burdock glycosides, fatty oil, sterols, thiamine, burdock phenol and other chemical components, of which 25% -30% of the fatty oil, iodine value of 138.83, can be used as industrial oil.

With burdock in addition to brewed into tea, you can also use burdock to soup, or added to certain dishes, has a very high nutritional value as well as medicinal value of burdock tea, drink burdock tea, the body has its unique effect, but do not blindly drink a large number of people, otherwise it will produce some bad effects.

Reference: People's Daily Online - People's Health Nutrition "Knowledge" Hall No. 317: burdock as "Oriental ginseng" real or exaggerated?

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