Burdock has the efficacy of dispersing wind and heat (evacuating externally felt wind-heat evil), promoting the lungs and transmitting rashes, and inducing diuresis and detoxification of the pharynx. It is used to treat diseases caused by external wind-heat and internal obstruction of heat. Burdock seed is the dried mature fruit of burdock, family Asteraceae, cold in nature, pungent and bitter in flavor, belonging to the lung meridian, stomach meridian. Its main effect is to disperse wind and dissipate heat, promote the lungs to penetrate the rash, and benefit the pharynx to detoxify the toxin. Burdock is mainly used for the treatment of exogenous wind-heat colds, cough and phlegm, measles impermeable, rubella itching, sore throat discomfort, mumps poisoning (acute infections, visible skin red like paint), carbuncle sores and sores. Adverse effects of burdock seed is not clear, carbuncle (is a kind of poisonous sores, occurring on the surface of the body, limbs, internal organs of the acute suppurative disease) has been ulcerated or non-constipation should not take burdock seed. If you need to use burdock seed, it is recommended to go to the hospital, in the professional Chinese medicine practitioner to clearly identify the evidence after the choice of drugs, not blindly buy drugs, so as to avoid medicines do not suit the symptoms, affecting health.