Drug name: Fructus Arctii, alias: malt, oxalis, hawthorn and murraya; English name: niubangzi description: bitter, bitter and cold. Enter the lung and stomach meridians. Analysis: in the five elements, the stomach meridian belongs to the soil and the lung meridian belongs to the gold, and the two are interrelated. Therefore, he has a fighting effect on diseases of lung meridian and stomach meridian. Function: dispel wind and clear heat, penetrate rash and relieve sore throat, detoxify and reduce swelling. 1. Used for wind-heat cold and sore throat. This product is pungent and bitter, and cold can clear away heat, so it has the effects of dispersing wind and heat, dispersing lung qi and relieving sore throat. It is often used with Yinqiao powder such as honeysuckle, forsythia, Schizonepeta and platycodon grandiflorum. If the wind-heat is strong, the throat is swollen and painful, and the heat toxicity is serious, rhubarb, mint, Schizonepeta and Saposhnikovia divaricata can be used, such as burdock soup; Herba Schizonepetae, Radix Platycodi, Radix Peucedani and Radix Glycyrrhizae are commonly used for wind-heat cough and excessive phlegm. 2. Used for measles. This product can clear away wind and heat, clear away heat and toxic materials, and promote measles eruption. Often used with mint, Schizonepeta, cicada slough and Lithospermum, such as lobster sauce soup. 3. Used for carbuncle, swelling, sores, mumps and laryngitis. This product is hard and cold, and has the function of cool wind and heat when lifting. It can expel wind and heat from the outside, drain its poison from the inside, clear away heat and toxic materials, reduce swelling and relieve sore throat, and be slippery in nature, and also facilitate defecation. Therefore, it can be used to treat exogenous wind-heat, endogenous fire-toxin, pain, swelling and pain, and constipation. Often used with rhubarb, mirabilite, gardenia, forsythia and mint. This product is compatible with Fructus Trichosanthis, Fructus Forsythiae, Trichosanthis Radix and Pericarpium Citri Reticulatae Viride, and can also be used to treat breast abscess caused by liver depression and excessive fire and stomach heat blocking collaterals, such as Fructus Trichosanthis and Burdock Decoction. It is compatible with Radix Scrophulariae, Scutellariae Radix, Coptidis Rhizoma and Radix Isatidis, and can also be used for treating heat-toxic syndrome such as fever, dysentery and throat obstruction, such as Puji Xiaodu Drink. Usage and dosage: decocted, 3 ~ 10g. The coolness of frying is slightly reduced. Precautions: This product is cold in nature, moistening the intestines to relieve constipation, and should be used with caution for patients with qi deficiency and loose stool.