Can Luo Han Guo be cold brewed and taken?

Luo Han Guo is a Chinese herbal medicine, with clear heat and moisten the lungs, the pharynx opens the sound and so on, but its correct use for the decoction, if the cold water soak to take the active ingredients is difficult to precipitate, get the herbal leachate content is less, can not achieve the effect of the treatment of disease. Therefore, it is generally not recommended to take Luo Han Guo cold brew.
Luo Han Guo is sweet in flavor and cool in nature. It belongs to the lung and large intestine meridians. Its effects are clearing heat and moistening the lungs, inducing pharyngeal pain and opening up the voice, sliding the intestines and passing stools, and it is suitable for lung-heat and dry cough, sore throat and loss of voice, and intestinal dryness and constipation. The use of this drug is decoction, cold soak and take to get less content of herbal extracts, limited efficacy, can not be used in the treatment of disease.
If you feel unwell, it is recommended that you consult a doctor in time and use the herbs reasonably in accordance with the doctor’s instructions, so that they can play a better role in medicinal efficacy.