This product is the dried and ripe fruit of the Asteraceae plant burdock. In autumn, when the fruit is ripe, the inflorescence is harvested, dried, the fruit is laid, impurities are removed, and then dried.
【Trait characteristics】
This product is obovate, slightly flattened, slightly curved, 5 to 7 mm long and 2 to 3 mm wide. The surface is grayish-brown with purplish-black spots, with several longitudinal ridges, usually 1 to 2 more pronounced in the middle. The apex is obtuse and rounded, slightly wider, with a ring at the top, with the remnants of a dotted columella in the middle, slightly narrower at the base, and the bearing is lighter. The pericarp is hard, cotyledons 2, pale yellowish-white, oily. The breath is slight, the taste is bitter and slightly pungent and slightly numb.
【Sexual Taste and Return】
Hard, bitter, cold. Return to the lungs and stomach meridians.
【Functions and Indications】
Evacuate wind and heat, promote lung dialysis, detoxification and pharynx. It is used for wind-heat cold, cough and phlegm, measles, rubella, sore throat, itchy cheeks, erysipelas, carbuncle swelling and sores.
【Dosage】
6〜12g。
[Utility Analysis]
Burdock root is bitter and bitter, cold can clear heat, rise and disperse in the property of clearing, into the lungs can evacuate wind and heat, although the power of divergence is not as good as peppermint, but it is longer than the lungs to expel phlegm, clear the throat, so the wind and heat cold and see the throat red, swollen and painful, or cough phlegm is more unfavorable, very commonly used.
Burdock can evacuate wind and heat, and promote the rash to permeate and disperse, so it can be used to treat measles impermeability or penetration. If the scabies and itching caused by rheumatism and blood soaking, this product can disperse wind and relieve itching.
Burdock root is hard and cold, and there is the ability to clear and descend in the rise and float, which can dissipate wind and heat externally, detoxify heat internally, enter the lung and stomach meridians, have the effect of clearing heat and detoxifying, reducing swelling and improving pharynx, so it can be used to treat carbuncle swelling and sores poison, erysipelas, phlegmatic paralysis and other heat poison diseases. Because of its smooth nature and smooth bowel laxative, it is especially suitable for those with the above diseases and hot stool.
【Compatible Applications】
1. Beef Pepper Distribution Kikyo
Burdock is good at evacuating wind and heat, promoting lung and pharynx, and bellflower is good at opening lung qi, opening pharynx, phlegm and relieving cough. The two are compatible, and work together to evacuate wind and heat, promote the lungs and pharynx, expel phlegm and relieve cough, and are commonly used to treat external wind and heat, sore throat, cough, and phlegm are unpleasant.
2. Burdock with angelica
Burdock has the function of clearing heat, detoxifying and reducing swelling, and Angelica dahurica has the function of reducing swelling and draining pus. The two are compatible, and the function of detoxification, swelling and pus drainage is better. It is often used for sores and carbuncles, swelling and pain or pus without ulceration, and is often used with honeysuckle and forsythia to enhance its purulent drainage and detoxification work.
3. Beef Pepper Distribution Mountain T药
Burdock root can clear away heat and promote phlegm, and yam is good at nourishing the spleen and lungs. The two drugs go hand in hand. Clears phlegm turbidity without harming the positive, nourishes the lungs and spleen without stagnation of phlegm, has the function of clearing phlegm and heat, nourishing the spleen and lungs, and is often used for cough that does not heal for a long time. Those who have poor phlegm and weak constitution.
【Summary of Materia Medica】
"Materia Medica" "The use of burdock can evacuate wind and heat, cause acne rashes, and good stool, not hot, or temperament is not solid, and there is diarrhea in the investment, then the bitterness is reduced, and the downward force is more." ”
【Prescription Examples】
1. Yin Qiaosan ("Identification of Warm Illness")
Medicinal composition: honeysuckle, forsythia, peppermint, burdock seed, nepeta panicle, light tempeh, bitter bellflower, bamboo leaves, raw licorice.
Function and indications: pungent and cool, clear heat and detoxify, suitable for the beginning of warm disease, symptoms of fever, slight wind and cold, no sweat or sweating, headache and thirst, cough and sore throat, red tongue, thin white or yellowish moss, pulse floating.
2. Dissipate the wind ("Surgical Authenticity")
Medicinal composition: nepeta, parsnip, burdock, cicada, atractylodes, sophora, gypsum, zhimu, angelica, flax, shengdi, mutong, licorice.
Function and indications: dispelling wind and dampness, clearing heat and nourishing blood. It is suitable for rubella and eczema, and the symptoms are itchy skin, the rash is very red, or the body is covered with cloud spots, oozing water after scratching, white or yellow, and the pulse floats.
Reviewer: Liu Ruifeng, Chief Pharmacist, Department of Pharmacy, Zhongshan People's Hospital
Author: Liao Qixin, chief pharmacist, Department of Pharmacy, Zhongshan People's Hospital