There is no “burdock root and what with the best”, according to the purpose of using burdock root to choose the appropriate medication, such as the treatment of wind-heat colds, can be accompanied by honeysuckle and other traditional Chinese medicine. Burdock root for the Asteraceae burdock plant burdock root, taste bitter, slightly sweet, cool; to the lungs, the heart meridian, with the wind heat, disinfection and swelling of the efficacy of the main for the treatment of wind-heat colds, sore throat, cough, gums, toothache, carbuncle gangrene (a kind of venomous sores, occurring in the body surface, limbs, viscera, acute suppurative diseases) sores scabies and other diseases. Burdock root is often used in conjunction with other drugs, such as the treatment of wind-heat colds, with honeysuckle, forsythia, etc.; the treatment of sore throat, can be combined with shoots of dried fruit, green fruit, etc.. Note that the active ingredients of the drug in water are limited, and it is difficult to achieve the efficacy of the treatment of disease. Patients need to be in the professional physician’s evidence under the guidance of reasonable use of medication, so as not to delay the condition.