Burdock is effective in dispersing wind-heat, promoting the lungs to penetrate the rash, detoxifying the pharynx. It is used for wind-heat cold, cough and phlegm, measles and other diseases. Burdock is pungent, bitter and cold in nature. Attributed to the lung, stomach meridian. Clinically used for rubella, sore throat, mumps, dengue (acute infection, visible skin red like paint), carbuncle sores and other diseases. With burdock for wind-heat surface evidence, or the beginning of warm disease, fever, sore throat and other diseases, often with other sparing wind-heat medicine, such as with honeysuckle, forsythia, etc.; if the treatment of wind-heat cough, phlegm, often with mulberry leaves, Platycodonopsis, and other sparing wind-heat, lung phlegm cough medicines with the treatment of measles, or through the reoccurring, often with peppermint, Cicada shells and other relief of rashes with the same medicine. It should be noted that burdock can slip the intestines, gas deficiency loose stools (feces thin not shaped) should not be used. If you have a need for burdock seed, it should be used under the guidance of a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner, and should not be taken on its own to avoid adverse consequences.