The fiber of burdock can promote intestinal peristalsis, help defecation, lower body cholesterol, reduce toxins, waste accumulation in the body, to achieve the prevention of stroke and prevention of gastric and uterine cancer. Western medicine believes that it has diuretic, elimination of accumulation, expectorant and stop bleeding and other pharmacological effects, but also used for constipation, high blood pressure, high cholesterol diet. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it has the effect of dispersing wind and heat, promoting the lungs to penetrate the rash, detoxifying the pharynx and so on. It can be used for wind-heat cold, cough and phlegm, measles and rubella, sore throat. The Classic of Materia Medica calls it "three important medicines for dispersing wind, removing heat and detoxifying toxins". The Compendium of Materia Medica said that it can "open the twelve meridians, wash the bad gas of the five organs" and "lighten the body and resist aging if taken for a long time". China's "Modern Dictionary of Traditional Chinese Medicine", "Dictionary of Traditional Chinese Medicine" and other pharmacopoeia of burdock pharmacological effects are summarized as: growth-promoting effects; tumor growth inhibiting substances; antibacterial and antifungal effects.　　The root of the herb is fusiform, fleshy and straight, with black-brown, wrinkled skin and yellowish-white inside; it has a slightly bitter flavor and sticky nature.　　Collected during October to dig more than 2 years of roots, washed and dried.　　Bitter flavor, cold.　　① "Compendium": "Bitter, cold, non-toxic."　② "Classification of Herbal Medicinal Properties": "Sweet flavor, rigid nature."　(③) "Sichuan Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine": "Warm in nature, bitter and astringent in flavor, non-toxic."　Attributed to the meridian "Getting and Matching Materia Medica": "Entering the Taiyin meridian of the hand."　Functions and Indications Dispel wind-heat, eliminate swelling and poison. Treating wind-poisoned swollen face, dizziness, hot and swollen throat, toothache, cough, thirst, carbuncle sores and scabies.　　(1) "Other Records": "Roots and stems to treat cold and fever, sweating stroke, face swelling, thirst, heat, and expel water."　(2) "Treatise on the Nature of Medicine": "Roots, finely cut like beans, noodles mixed with rice to eat, eliminating congestion and swelling. And can top all the swelling and poison, with the roots, leaves, a little salt flowers pounded."　(3) Tang Materia Medica: "Mainly for tooth pain, labor and malaria, slow and weak feet, wind poison, carbuncle, cough and lung injury, lung congestion; hernia, accumulation of blood. Lord of all winds, obstruction in the abdomen, and coldness."　④ Gleanings of the Materia Medica: "Soaking in wine removes wind, and is also the mainstay of evil sores."　⑤ Classification of Herbal Medicinal Properties: "Treating dizziness, wind-heat, eye fainting and cloudiness, tinnitus, deafness, lumbago, and externally treating prolapse of the anus."　(6) Guizhou Folk Medicine Collection: "Treating heatstroke."　(7) "Sichuan Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine": "Treating scabies."　Usage and dosage for internal use: decoction or pounding juice. Externally: pounded, boiled or washed with decoction ① Treatment of heat attacking the heart, irritability and trance: burdock root pounded juice of one liter, divided into three servings after eating. ("Food Medicine Mind Mirror") ② treatment of head and face suddenly swollen, heat and wind attack, or hands and feet, head and face of red swelling, touching pain: burdock root washed and rotten research, wine decoction into a paste, spread on the paper, paste the venomous swelling, still hot wine mix down, a service of swelling to stop the pain is reduced. ("Doumen Fang") ③ cure anti-flowering sores, and cure all sores for years: burdock root hot pounding, and waxing pig fat seal. ("Thousand Gold Formula") ④ treatment of heat swelling in the throat: mouse sticky root (cut) a liter, with five liters of water, boiled to three liters, divided into warm three, four service. Avoid garlic and noodles. (Yan Nian Fang) ⑤ cure dizziness and pain: burdock root four two, the old man's head (washed in wine) one or two, boiled water to take. ("Chongqing Herbal Medicine") ⑥ cure fever toothache, gum swelling and pain intolerable: burdock root a catty, pounding juice, into the salt flower one money, silverware boiled into a paste, each with the coating on the gums, the heavy but two, three degrees. ("Sheng Hui Fang") (7) treatment of hemorrhoids: burdock root, leakage of reed root, tender pig intestine service. ("Chongqing Herbal Medicine") ⑧ treatment of galls: mouse stick grass root soup wash, fine excision of the skin of a liter of water, three liters, boiled to one and a half liters, divided into warm three services, service phase to go as a person walking four, five miles a service, it is appropriate to serve six doses. ("Emergency Relief Formula") ⑨ treatment of ear stroke swelling: burdock root clean wash fine cut, pounded and twisted to get a liter of juice, boiled in a silver pot into a paste, coated in the swelling. ("Sheng Hui Fang") ⑩ cure weak feet weakness: burdock root stewed chicken, stewed meat service. ("Chongqing Herbal Medicine") pharyngitis (pharyngitis, tonsillitis): burdock 6 grams, Platycodon grandiflorus, licorice 3 grams each, decocted dregs, and swallowed frequently.　　Women's breast carbuncle, swelling and pain: burdock 6 grams, fried research finely ground, hesitation incense 1 cc, *** research, 2 times a day, warm yellow wine to serve.　　Children's measles through the hair is not fast: burdock root appropriate amount of boiled soup to drink, there are detoxification diuretic, to prevent the effect of complications of pneumonia.　　Acute otitis media: fresh burdock root mashed juice drops ear, several times a day.　　All canker sores: burdock root or leaf juice applied, several times a day.　　Stomach cramps and pains: fresh root pounded and twisted juice, warm drink half a cup, 2-3 times a day.　　Fresh burdock root boiled food, stomach cancer, cervical cancer, etc. has a certain anti-cancer effect. Elderly vascular sclerosis, prevention of stroke: burdock root in the right amount of porridge food, paraplegia after stroke, serving is also good.