Burdock seed is a very nourishing medicinal herb for all of us. It can not only be used as medicine to relieve throat pain, dispel wind and heat, but also can be used to make tea to clean the intestines and stomach, which has a good health effect on our body. Let's take a closer look at the therapeutic effects of burdock seed.
1. Wind-Heat Cold
Burdock seed has the effects of dispersing wind and heat, clearing lung and throat, and is commonly used to treat wind-heat cold and throat pain. It is often used in combination with honeysuckle, forsythia, wild chrysanthemum, and balloon flower, such as Yin Qiao San.
If wind-heat is excessive with severe throat pain and heat toxin, it can be used in combination with rhubarb, peppermint, wild chrysanthemum, and ledebouriella, such as Burdock Seed Soup. If there is wind-heat cough with excessive phlegm, it is often used in combination with wild chrysanthemum, balloon flower, pinellia, and licorice.
2. Measles Not Penetrating
Burdock seed can dispel wind and heat, promote eruption of measles, and is commonly used to treat measles that does not penetrate or recurs. It is often used in combination with peppermint, wild chrysanthemum, cicada slough, and lithospermum, such as Penetrating Measles Decoction.
3. Abscesses and Sores
Burdock seed has a pungent and bitter cold nature, which can dispel external wind-heat and internal toxins. It has the effects of clearing heat and resolving toxins, reducing swelling, and promoting throat. It also has a slippery and laxative nature, which can also promote bowel movements. Therefore, it can be used to treat wind-heat invasion, fire toxin internal accumulation, painful swelling and sores, and constipation. It is often used in combination with rhubarb, mirabilite, gardenia, forsythia, and peppermint.
Burdock seed can be used in combination with gourd peel, forsythia, pollen typhae, and green tangerine peel to treat liver depression transforming into fire, and milk abscess caused by stomach heat stagnation, such as Gourd Peel Burdock Seed Soup. It can also be used in combination with scrophularia, skullcap, coptis, and dendrobium to treat heat-toxin diseases such as epidemic pestilence and mumps, such as Puji Disinfection Drink.
