Luo Han Guo is generally not recommended to be taken directly, it is recommended to be taken by decoction with water, or infused with honey alone, or made into rice cakes, candies, cookies and other medicinal food. Specific medication should follow the doctor’s instructions.
Luo Han Guo is the mature fruit of the cucurbit plant Luo Han Guo. It is sweet in flavor and cool in nature. It belongs to the lung and large intestine meridian. It has the effect of clearing heat and moisturizing the lungs, facilitating the pharynx and opening the voice, and lubricating the bowels. It can be used to treat lung-heat dry cough, sore throat and loss of voice, intestinal dryness and constipation and other diseases. People with cold spleen and stomach should take it with caution. Lung cold and external cough is contraindicated.
Luo Han Guo with Sang Bai Pi has the function of clearing lung heat, relieving cough and resolving phlegm, and is suitable for people with lung heat, cough and asthma, and phlegm that is yellow and thick. Luo Han Guo with honey, the two drugs together, can enhance the laxative effect, suitable for intestinal constipation.
Taking medication should be under the guidance of a professional doctor, do not use medication privately, so as not to cause damage to the organism.