Introduction to Medicinal Use

The root of the medicinal material is spindle-shaped, fleshy and straight, the skin is dark brown with wrinkles, and the inside is yellow-white; the taste is slightly bitter and the nature is sticky. Fresh burdock stems

Collect the roots that are more than 2 years old in October, wash them and dry them in the sun. Nature and flavor are pungent, bitter, and cold. ① "Compendium": "Bitter, cold, non-toxic." ② "Classification of Herbal Medicine Properties": "Sweet in taste, hard in nature." ③ "Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine": "Warm in nature, bitter in taste, non-toxic." Return of Meridians "Depei Materia Medica": "Start with the Taiyin Meridian." Functions include dispelling wind-heat and reducing swelling and toxins. Cure wind-induced facial swelling, dizziness, thermal swelling of the throat, toothache, cough, thirst, carbuncle and scabies. ① "Bie Lu": "The roots and stems are used to treat cold and heat, sweating, stroke, facial swelling, quenching thirst, heat, and removing water." ② "Treatise on Medical Properties": "The roots, cut into fine pieces like beans, are mixed with flour and used for meals. , can relieve swelling and congestion. Pound the roots and leaves with a little salt flower. "③" Tang Materia Medica": "It is used for toothache, malaria, weak feet, wind poison, carbuncle, cough and lung damage. Congestion; hernia, mass, and blood accumulation. "4. "Supplementary Materials of Materia Medica": "Soaking in wine can remove wind, and also treat malignant sores." "Category of Herbal Medicine": "Cure dizziness, wind-heat. Dizzy eyes, tinnitus, deafness, low back pain, external treatment of prolapse. "⑥ "Guizhou Folk Prescription Collection": "Treatment of summer heat" "⑦ "Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine": "Treatment of scabies". It is capable of ascending and descending, and has the power to relieve heat and poison. Its pungent taste can relieve wind and phlegm, and it is suitable for treating cases of lung meridian stagnation and wind-heat." Oral administration: decoction or juice. External use: Pound and apply, boil the ointment and apply it, or decoct and wash it. Recipe: 1. Treat heat attack on the heart, irritability and trance: pound one liter of burdock root juice and divide it into three doses after eating. ("Food and Medicine Heart Mirror") ②Treatment of sudden swelling of the head and face, internal attack of heat, poisonous wind, or redness and swelling of the hands, feet, head and face, with pain to touch: wash the burdock root and grind it to pieces, decoct it with wine and make a paste, spread it on paper and apply it to the swelling. Toxin, still mix it with hot wine, and the swelling and pain will be reduced after taking one dose. ("Doumen Prescription") ③Cure anti-flower sores and chronic sores: hot pound burdock root and seal it with twelfth lunar month pig fat. ("Qianjin Prescription") ④ To treat heat and swelling in the throat: (cut) one liter of the root of rat mucus, add five liters of water, boil three liters, take three or four times of warm temperature. Avoid garlic and noodles. ("Yannian Prescription") ⑤ To treat dizziness and pain: 4 liang of burdock root, 1 liang of old man's head (washed with wine), boil it in water and take it. ("Chongqing Herbal Medicine") ⑥Treatment of toothache due to heat and unbearable swelling and pain of gums: Pound one pound of burdock root into juice, add salt for one penny, boil it into a paste in silverware, apply it on the gums every time, no more than 2,000 pounds in severe cases. Three degrees. ("Sheng Hui Fang") ⑦Cure hemorrhoids: burdock root and reed root, taken in the large intestine of young pigs. ("Chongqing Herbal Medicine") ⑧Cure galls: Wash with rat mussel root decoction, cut off the skin carefully, add 1 liter of water, boil 1 and a half liters, take three times with warm temperature, and take it as if you take it once for four or five miles. Six doses. ("Emergency Recipe") 9. Treat swollen ears: Wash the burdock root and chop it finely, pound and twist to get one liter of juice, boil it in a silver pot to make a paste, and apply it on the swollen ear. ("Sheng Hui Fang") ⑩Treat weakness and weak feet: take burdock root stewed with chicken or meat. ("Chongqing Herbal Medicine") Throat swelling (angina, flat body inflammation): 6 grams of burdock, 3 grams each of platycodon and licorice, decoct in water to remove residue, and swallow frequently. Women's breast cancer, swelling and pain: 6 grams of burdock, stir-fry and grind into fine powder, 1 centimeter of rhizome, grind well, take twice a day with warm rice wine. Measles in children does not spread quickly: boil an appropriate amount of burdock root in soup and drink it, which has the effect of detoxification, diuresis and prevention of pneumonia. Acute otitis media: Mash fresh burdock root, squeeze the juice and drop it into the ears, several times a day. All carbuncles and boils: apply burdock root or leaf juice several times a day. Stomach spasm: mash the fresh roots and grind the juice, drink half a cup of it warmly, 2 to 3 times a day. Fresh burdock root cooked and eaten has certain anti-cancer effects on gastric cancer, cervical cancer, etc. Arteriosclerosis in the elderly, prevention of stroke: Appropriate amount of burdock root can be cooked into porridge to prevent hemiplegia after stroke, and it is also good to take it.