Medicine food combination the burdock 
 
 
Zhong Zhuyi Zhong shan county people's hospital of guangxi 
 
 
China's traditional Chinese medicine to 

    Burdock is a kind of to hypertrophy fleshy root vegetables for food, petioles and leaves are also edible, fleshy root of burdock is rich in nutritional value. Fructus arctii and burdock root can be medicine also edible.
 
    , burdock is rich in inulin cellulose, protein, calcium, phosphorus, iron and so on many kinds of minerals and amino acids necessary for human, which contains carotene 280 times higher than the carrot. The doctor of traditional Chinese medicine believe that there is a breeze cooling, releasing lungs through rash, detoxification, pharynx etc. Now people often eat burdock root.
 
    Burdock, due to the shape as ginseng, ginseng "east" is a nickname. Burdock temperature, taste, flat, into the lung, liver, stomach, have evacuated wind hot, releasing lungs through detoxifying the rash, swelling, can cure wind poison head swollen, dizzy, sore throat, toothache, cough, diabetes, ulcer boil wait for disease. Are detailed in the compendium of materia medica "evil spirit of twelve meridians, in addition to the five zang-organs, long intellectual man fit resistance to old". "Atlas of Chinese herbal medicine and dispensing" think "burdock root take orally can enhance metabolism, promote blood circulation, shit". The anticancer Chinese traditional medicine, points out that burdock has antibacterial effect, main active material in the root, such as burdock polysaccharide, burdock acid with other anticancer Chinese traditional medicine with formula.
 
    Burdock leaves, flowers, roots, fruits are available as a medicine. Burdock taste sweet, cool, flowers, burdock leaves into the lungs, stomach, have evacuated wind heat syndrome, clear the pharynx, applicable to a cold sore throat, throat is bad, etc. Burdock leaves smell, can cure headache, breast pain, itchy skin. Fructus arctii for burdock ripe fruit, sexual flavour, bitter, cold, into the lung, stomach, have evacuated wind hot, clear the pharynx, detoxification and rash, acetanilide detumescence. "Huang shu", the "scattered wind except to heat detoxification medicine. Can fights, bitter can drain hot, hot and dispersion are dirty air clear, so clear and fill in", and thus can treat these wind heat, sore throats, toxic heat, sore carbuncle, rash out not free, etc. Burdock root taste bitter, cold, into the spleen, lung, a breeze heat, detoxify detumescence, apply to wind hot cold, cough, sore throat, constipation, dizziness, tinnitus, deafness, ulcer boils the itch and so on. Compendium of material medica, the tang dynasty "primary teeth pain, malaria, weak feet slowly, wind poison, ulcer, cough lung injury".
 
    Burdock can also do the dishes, soups, can be used as a medicine, can make tea, can make health care products. Daily practice is multifarious, as long as the food properly, the same is delicious. Especially in the home cooking, adding burdock, convenient and nutrition.
 
 
 
 
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