The source is from the fruit of Arctum lappa L., family Compositae. The medicinal material is collected in autumn, dried in the sun. The crude or stir-baked form can all be used.

Medicinal Properties:
Pungent and bitter in flavor, cold in nature and attributive to the lung and stomach meridians.

Actions:
Expel wind and heat, let out the skin eruption, ease the throat, remove toxic materials and dissipate nodules.

Application
1. For exterior syndrome of wind and heat type with sore and swollen throat.
2. For unsmooth eruption of measles.
3. It is used for carbuncle or pyogenic infection of the skin and mumps, and especially suitable for the carbuncle due to either wind-heat syndrome due to exogenous attack or stasis of toxic heat in the interior accompanied with constipation.