Alocasia alopecuroides is poisonous from root to fruit. Don't touch it or eat it. However, the rhizome can be used as medicine after detoxification, which has a good effect on abdominal pain, cholera and hernia.

For fresh grass juice, it will itch after skin contact, and it will cause blindness if taken by mistake. After eating stems and leaves by mistake, the throat itches, swells, drools, heartburn, nausea, diarrhea, convulsions, and in severe cases, he dies of suffocation and cardiac paralysis. Folk use vinegar and a little ginger juice to cook, take orally or gargle to detoxify.