Baicalin is a Chinese herbal medicine that belongs to the genus Scutellaria, family Labiatae, and is a perennial herb. Its roots are used as medicine, with a bitter taste and cold nature, and have the effects of clearing heat and drying dampness, diarrhea and detoxification, stopping bleeding, and tranquilizing the fetus.

The main treatment for warm fever, upper respiratory tract infections, lung-heat cough, damp-heat jaundice, pneumonia, dysentery, coughing up blood, eye redness, fetal restlessness, hypertension, carbuncle boils and so on.