Burdock root (also known as gobo root) has been used for centuries throughout the world as a medicinal herb to cure illness and disease. The polyacetylenes found in it have antibacterial and anti-fungal effects.
This herb is among all biennial root crops. A plant that requires two years to complete its life-cycle, germinating and growing in its first year, then producing its flowers and fruit in its second year, after which it usually dies. Therefore after two years burdock usually dies.
Burdock is a good source of minerals as in manganese, phosphorous, iron, chromium, and silicon. It is one of the foremost detoxifying herbs, amongst the rest. Some people find the root edible, while others prefer the tea which at present is a source of treating cancer.
Benefits of burdock root
During the middle ages, English herbalists preferred it to sarsaparilla for the treatment of boils, scurvy, and rheumatism.
This is a medicinal herb that cleanses the blood and increases urine production, ridding the body of chronic toxicity and swollen joints. It is alterative, diuretic and diaphoretic.
Burdock root herb is used to purify the blood, cures skin problems such as acne, rheumatism, canker sores, eczema, measles and chicken pox, boils, carbuncles, gout, scrofula, canker sores, sciatica, gonorrhea, and leprosy.
It is excellent to apply externally as a salve for burns, wounds, swellings, and hemorrhoids. It also contains 27-45 inulin, which aids in the metabolism of carbohydrates.
The tea taken freely will heal all kinds of skin diseases, boils and carbuncles, and is now thought to be good for cancer.
The multi-purpose use of this herb includes applying it as a salve for skin eruptions, burns, wounds, swellings, and hemorrhoids.
Preparation and dosage of the root
The root and the seeds may be taken as a decoction of one ounce to one and a half pint of water, boiled down to a pint, in doses of a wine glassful, three or four times a day.
It can be purchased dried, in tincture form, in powder and capsules. Take one capsule twice daily or use half of a teaspoonful of the powder twice daily in a glass of water.
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