Can be directly soaked in water to drink, but also can be made into burdock pork tripe soup, burdock seaweed soup, burdock vegetable soup, burdock salad and other foods.

Burdock has the functions of dispersing wind and heat, clearing away heat and toxic materials, dispersing lung qi and relieving sore throat. Soaking in water is mostly used to treat diseases such as wind-heat cold, lung-heat cough, constipation, carbuncle swelling, rubella itching and so on.

Fructus Arctii can be used alone or in combination with other traditional Chinese medicines to enhance the curative effect. Burdock is slightly cold, and people with spleen and stomach deficiency are best not to take it.