Burdock is a herbaceous plant. The dried mature fruit of burdock has medicinal value and is called burdock seed, and burdock root also has high food value. Burdock is pungent, bitter and cold in nature, and belongs to the lung and stomach meridians. The efficacy and function of burdock seed is to evacuate wind-heat, promote the lung and penetrate the rash, benefit the pharynx and detoxify the toxin. It is used for the treatment of wind-heat colds, cough with profuse phlegm, measles, rubella, sore throat, and dengtoxin, etc. It is a commonly used traditional Chinese medicine and is often used together with Platycodon grandiflorum and forsythia. Burdock is used in classic prescriptions such as Yin Qiao San and Pu Ji Sterilizing Drink. Burdock root can be eaten as a vegetable, which has a good effect on improving the immune system, strengthening the body and increasing nutrition. Burdock fiber can promote intestinal peristalsis, help defecation, can lower the body’s cholesterol, reduce toxins, waste in the body’s accumulation, is to lower blood lipids, lower blood pressure, lowering blood sugar and improve constipation auxiliary food. Now burdock can also be made into tea, play a role in health care.