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Burdock is a plant that is sometimes used as a food. The root, leaf, and seeds arealso used to make medicine. It has been used to treat variety of ailments, includingdiabetes and hair loss, and it is said to kill germs and reduce fever. It is also used forhigh blood pressure and sometimes to increase the sex drive. In traditional Europeanmedicine, this herbal preparation can be comminute, powdered, made into a tincture,and used as a soft extract. A European powdered capsule contains 350 mg/capsule, and the dose for liquid extracts is 25–50 drops, 1–3 times/day. For tinctures,50 drops, 1–3 times/day, are recommended. The dry extract dose is 1 g/day(Gupta et al. 2004). As an Ayurvedic medicine, 40 mg/tablet of powered burdock isserved. Its roots are also used in therapeutic remedies (Poucheret et al. 2006).