The best Chinese herbs to reduce swelling and dissipate knot claims have no basis, reduce swelling and dissipate knot commonly used Chinese medicines are Xia Gu Cao, oyster, seaweed and so on. 1. Xia Gu Cao: It is the dried fruit spike of Xia Gu Cao, a plant of the genus Xia Gu Cao, family Labiatae. It has the effects of clearing heat and fire (removing heat and fire from the body), brightening the eyes, dispersing knots and swelling, and is mainly used for treating redness and swelling of the eyes, headache and dizziness, night pain in the eyeballs, scrofula (mainly refers to tuberculosis of the lymph nodes in the neck), and gall tumors (equivalent to tumors of the thyroid gland), etc. It is also used as a medicine for the treatment of pain in the eyeballs. It should be used with caution for people with weak spleen and stomach. 2. Oyster: it is the shell of oyster of the genus Oyster, family Ostrea, etc. It has the function of calming the liver and submerging the yang (suppressing the liver). It has the effects of calming the liver and submerging yang (suppressing the rising yang qi in the liver), astringent and solidifying astringency (consolidating astringency), softening and dispersing knots (softening and dispersing hard lumps), and calming the mind (using drugs of heavy nature to stabilize the mind). It is used in the treatment of restlessness of the heart and mind, palpitation and insomnia, phlegm nuclei (lumps swollen up like nuclei under the skin), gall tumors, scrofula, spontaneous sweating (involuntary sweating during the daytime, aggravated by the slightest movement of sweating), night sweating (sweating abnormally after falling asleep and stopping sweating after waking up), spermatorrhea, spermatorrhea, carbuncle and swollen toxin, sore and eczema, and etc. It is contraindicated in constipation. Constipation is contraindicated. 3. seaweed: for the Sargasso family Sargasso plant Artemisia maritima of the whole grass. Seaweed has the effect of eliminating phlegm, softening hardness, diuresis and swelling (diuresis, eliminating edema), the main treatment of gall tumor, scrofula, testicular swelling and pain, phlegm and drink (pathology products formed by water metabolism disorders) edema and so on. It is contraindicated for those who suffer from deficiency and coldness of the spleen and stomach (spleen and stomach weakness and cold). Chinese herbs need to be used under the guidance of a Chinese doctor to identify the evidence, individuals should not use blindly, so as not to cause adverse consequences.