What is the effect of burdock

Burdock is usually used as medicine with the dried and matured fruit, i.e. burdock seed, which has the effects of penetrating rashes and relieving phlegm, promoting lung expectoration, evacuating wind-heat, detoxifying and eliminating swellings. Burdock is pungent, bitter and cold in nature, and belongs to the lung and stomach meridians. Burdock has the effect of clearing rashes, expelling phlegm from the lungs, detoxifying and eliminating swelling, and dispersing wind-heat. It can be used to treat itchy rashes, impenetrable measles, wind-heat colds, phlegm and cough, canker sores and swollen toxins. The adverse effects of burdock have not been clarified, this product is cold and slippery bowel, qi deficiency loose stools (feces thin and unshaped) should be used with caution, frying can slightly reduce its bitter cold and slippery bowel properties. If you feel unwell, it is recommended that you seek medical attention in a timely manner, and the use of burdock and other Chinese herbs should be under the guidance of a doctor.