The Compendium of Medical Sciences (《医林纂要》) reads, "Removing vexation, relieving heat, and eliminating phlegm". Brasenia schreberi is cold in nature and should not be eaten for a long time. Brasenia schreberi is rich in nutrients, containing a large number of C vitamins, proteins and trace iron, with beauty, stomach, strong body, cancer prevention and other effects.

According to Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica", Brasenia schreberi can quench thirst and heat paralysis, and crucian carp as a soup to stop vomiting, replenish the large and small intestines of false qi, treatment of hot jaundice, thick intestines and stomach, an under the focal point of the body, and expel water to detoxify.

"Qimin Yaojiao": "Wei, sex pure and easy to produce. Kind of shallow and deep for the wait, deep water is fat stems and fewer leaves, shallow water is thin stems and more leaves. Its nature by water and slippery, so called medicinal vegetables, and get the name of the sunflower."　Rihuazi Materia Medica: "Cure fever and gangrene, thick intestines and stomach, and lower anxiety, detoxification of all medicines."　The Compendium of Medical Sciences: "Removing vexation, relieving fever, and eliminating diseases."　The Materia Medica Huiyan: "The medicinal vegetable cools the stomach and treats gangrene, and disperses heat and paralysis of the medicine. This grass is cold and slippery, and ginger and vinegar as a soup to eat, great to clear the stomach fire, eliminating the accumulation of alcohol, to stop the summer heat into dysentery."

The Lotus Root and Brasenia schrebergeri is from The Collected Works of Ye Shengtao (Volume 5), Jiangsu Education Press, 1988 edition. Ye Shengtao (1894-1988) was a modern writer, educator, publisher and social activist. He was a native of Suzhou, Jiangsu Province.