The efficacy and use of burdock seeds

Burdock seeds are the mature fruits of Burdock, a genus of burdock in the family Asteraceae. It is mainly produced in Northeast China and Zhejiang Province. It is cold in nature, pungent and bitter in taste, and belongs to the lung and stomach meridians. It has the effects of dispersing wind-heat, promoting lung rash, detoxifying the throat and laxative. Let's take a look at the efficacy and use of burdock seeds, and some contraindications to its use!

Dispersing wind-heat

Burdock seeds are pungent and bitter, can clear heat, and can dispel wind-heat, and can promote the lung to dispel phlegm and clear the throat, so it is often used to treat wind-heat colds with red, swollen and painful throat or cough with phlegm, etc. It can also be used to relieve the symptoms of fever and sore throat at the beginning of warm diseases.

Relieving rash and itching

Burdock seeds are clearing and dispersing, which can disperse wind-heat and promote the penetration of heat toxins to promote measles, and can be used to treat symptoms such as a rash that does not penetrate or that comes back. In addition, burdock seed can also dispel wind and relieve itch, and can be used to treat sores and scabies caused by rheumatism, itchy skin, etc., together with thorny root, cicada molasses and atractylodes.

Detoxification and throat relief

Burdock seeds are cold in nature and can disperse wind-heat and detoxify heat inside, so they can be used to treat various kinds of carbuncles, sores, sore throats, mumps, laryngeal paralysis and other heat poisoning diseases.

Laxative and bowel movement

Burdock is bitter and cold in nature, and has a laxative effect on the bowels, which can be used to improve the symptoms of constipation.

The pharmacological effects of burdock seeds

1, burdock decoction has a significant antibacterial effect on pneumococcus, and the water decoction has different degrees of inhibitory effect on a variety of pathogenic skin fungi. 2, burdock seeds have antipyretic, diuretic, lowering blood sugar, anti-tumor effect. 3, burdock glucoside has anti-nephrotic effect, inhibit its protein urine excretion increase in experimental nephrotic rats section, and can improve the serum biochemical index.

The use of burdock seeds

General medicinal use of burdock seeds decoction with water, the dosage of 6-12 grams per dose, fried use can slow down the bitter-cold characteristics of burdock seeds and reduce its synergistic effect.

Burdock seed tea

Fry burdock seeds with 200g, remove impurities, put them in a pot with low fire until they are slightly puffed up, slightly yellow outside and slightly aromatic, then take them out and let them cool. Take 10 grams per serving, brew with boiling water and drink as tea. Efficacy: It can clear heat and relieve symptoms, and is suitable for people with heavy fever, external wind-heat, slightly evil wind-cold, cough with little phlegm, red and swollen sore throat, yellow and sticky color, stuffy nose and headache, and less serious heat toxicity.

Burdock seeds japonica rice porridge

Ingredients: 15 grams of burdock seeds, appropriate amount of rock sugar, 80 grams of round-grained rice. Directions: Decoct burdock seeds with water, remove the residue and put in japonica rice and rock sugar, then add water and cook until the porridge is thick with rice flowers, take it twice a day with warmth. Efficacy: It can clear heat and relieve the surface of the body, suitable for external wind-heat, cough and phlegm, cold and cough, and measles, but it should be noted that anyone with cold stomach, Qi deficiency and loose stools should take it with caution.

Contraindications to the use of burdock seeds

Burdock seeds are cold and slippery, with laxative effect, some of the first drinkers will have diarrhea, so patients with spleen and stomach diarrhea should be careful to eat. Burdock has the effect of lowering blood pressure, blood sugar and blood lipids, so please drink it intermittently. Burdock is one of the vegetables with a lot of astringent fluids, so if you have allergic dermatitis or eczema, you should refrain from eating burdock. Pregnant women and infants are special people and are not recommended to drink it. Women should not drink it during menstruation.