The efficacy and function of burdock seed is

The main efficacy:

Evacuating wind-heat; clearing heat and removing toxins to penetrate the rash; declaring the lungs, relieving the pharynx and dispersing swelling.

Wind-heat colds, the first signs of warm diseases; wind-heat or lung-heat cough, sputum; sore throat; rash impermeable; measles in the early stages of rash, rash and rubella itching; sores, swelling and poison and mumps. Raw can be laxative, fever and sore throat, both hot constipation is especially suitable.

Used for feverish sores and swellings have not yet ulcerated, often with the ground, wild chrysanthemum and other heat detoxification drugs.

Burdock seed, Chinese medicine, also known as Dali Zi, mouse sticky son, evil real. It is long obovate, slightly flat, slightly curved, 5-7mm long, 2-3mm wide, gray-brown surface, with purple-black spots, with several longitudinal ribs, usually the middle 1-2 more obvious. The tip is obtuse-rounded, slightly broad, with a ring on the top surface, and a punctate stylar remnant in the middle; the base is slightly narrower, and the bearing surface is lighter in color. Pericarp harder, cotyledons 2, yellowish white, rich in oil. Odorless, taste bitter and then slightly pungent and slightly numbing tongue.