What are the effects and functions of burdock

Traditional Chinese medicine is a very profound science. Unlike Western medicine, traditional Chinese medicine can not only treat diseases fundamentally, but also reduce the harm caused by drugs to the body and play a role in regulating the body. There are many Chinese medicines that we have not heard of in normal times, but we also need to understand them in many aspects. So what are the effects and functions of burdock, and what effects can it have on the body?

1. "Bielu": Improves eyesight, replenishes the middle, and eliminates wind damage.

2. Materia Medica: It can eliminate all kinds of wind, remove erysipelas, improve eyesight, benefit the waist and legs, and disperse all kinds of nodules, heat and toxins in the tendons and bones.

3. "Compendium of Materia Medica for Food Therapy": Improves eyesight and ears, strengthens waist and knees, and facilitates urination.

4. "Supplement to Compendium of Materia Medica": It is used to treat wind-toxic swelling and various paralysis.

5. "Zhenzhunang": moistens the lungs and disperses qi, treats wind-toxic swelling, and relieves sore throat.

6. Li Dongyuan: Treats rheumatism, rashes, wind-heat in the throat, disperses the poison of various swellings and sores, and relieves stagnant qi in the waist and knees.

7. "Compendium of Materia Medica": Eliminates rashes and rash toxins.

8. "Bencao Jingshu": Erysia frutescens is an important medicine for dispersing wind, removing heat and detoxifying. Spicy flavors can disperse stagnation, bitter flavors can dissipate heat, and when heat stagnation is dispersed, the internal organs’ Qi will become clear, thus improving eyesight and tonifying the middle. Where there is damage by wind, the Wei Qi will be blocked, which will cause fever. If it is dispersed by pungent and cool herbs, the superficial Qi will be harmonious and the wind will have no place to stay. The Zang-Qi organs are responsible for treating wind-toxicity, swelling and various paralysis; the Yuan-Yuan organs are responsible for moistening the lungs, dispersing stagnant qi, relieving sore throat and diaphragm, removing skin wind and unblocking the twelve meridians. This is the whole idea. Therefore, it is especially effective in treating eczema and smallpox.

9. "Pharmaceutical Chemistry": Burdock seeds can rise and fall, and are effective in relieving heat and toxicity. The bitter taste can clear away heat, the pungent taste can dispel wind, and it is mainly used to treat wind-phlegm in the upper part of the body, edema of the face, sore throat, toxic heat congestion, saber-like scrofula, phlegm nodules in the neck, blood-heat pox, seasonal rashes, and skin urticaria. It is suitable for all cases of fire depression in the lung meridian and wind-heat in the lung meridian.

10. "Bencao Qiuzhen": Nowadays, people only say that burdock seeds can detoxify. Whenever they encounter sores, carbuncles, swellings, acne and other diseases, they will use this to treat them, but its meaning is still not fully understood. The accumulation of poisonous qi in ordinary people is mostly due to external wind and cold, which prevents the vital energy from flowing and goes against the flow in the flesh, thus causing carbuncle and poison. Burdock tastes pungent and bitter, and can both descend the Qi and disperse wind and remove heat. It is used to treat symptoms such as edema of the face, cough with phlegm, sore throat, rashes, and all other symptoms such as odorous toxins, sha retention, purple and black pox, and constipation. However, it is cold and slippery in nature, and taking too much of it will damage the vital energy of the body and make the exterior even weaker. As for diarrhea due to spleen deficiency, it is especially taboo.

When using burdock to treat diseases, you need to pay attention not only to the dosage and usage of this medicine, but also to the authenticity of the medicine. You cannot use fake medicine to treat diseases. At the same time, for some more serious diseases, it is best to combine them with other Chinese herbal medicines to achieve better results.