Burdock seed is mainly produced in the northeastern provinces and Zhejiang. Because of the cow's strength, burdock seed is also called Dali Zi.
The burdock seed is beaten from the fruit sequence of burdock, with large, full grains, gray-brown outer skin is preferred.
Burdock seeds are pungent, bitter and cold. Xin can be dispersed, bitter cold can drain heat, so there is the efficacy of evacuation of wind-heat; and into the lung meridian, bitter cold and clear, there is a clear throat, lung expectorant effect. Therefore, burdock is used for the treatment of wind-heat surface evidence, the beginning of warm disease, symptoms of fever, sore throat, cough, sputum, for the first choice of medicine.
In addition, burdock can penetrate the rash poison, used in the treatment of measles penetration is not smooth, rubella itching.
Burdock can also detoxify and eliminate swelling, for the treatment of feverish sores, dengue.
Because burdock seeds are seeds, cold and slippery in nature, they can moisten the intestines and laxative, so they are most suitable for fever, sore throat, cough and constipation.
Every child must be fried, burdock seeds after frying to make its bitter cold nature weakened. However, because burdock seed laxative, pungent dissipation of gas, so the gas deficiency of loose stools should be used with caution.