1, clearing away heat and purging fire, promoting fluid production to quench thirst, reducing swelling and discharging pus. The main functions of Trichosanthes root are clearing away heat and purging fire, promoting fluid production to quench thirst, reducing swelling and expelling pus. It is mainly used to treat fever and thirst, lung heat and dry cough, internal injury and thirst-quenching, sore and swelling. The main applications are: fever and thirst, trichosanthes root is sweet and cold, which can clear lung and stomach, and can also promote fluid production to quench thirst. It is often used to treat fever and thirst, and can be used together with drugs such as Rhizoma Phragmitis and Radix Ophiopogonis or with Radix Rehmanniae and Fructus Schisandrae.

2, lung heat and dry cough. Trichosanthes root can not only purge fire to clear lung heat, but also produce fluid to moisten lung dryness. It is used to treat lung dryness caused by dry heat, dry cough with little phlegm, blood in phlegm, and dry cough caused by lung heat.

3, internal heat to quench thirst, Trichosanthes root is good at clearing lung and stomach heat, promoting fluid production to quench thirst, and can be used to treat thirst caused by accumulated heat, dryness, and body fluid injury. It is often combined with Ophiopogon japonicus, Phragmites communis and imperata rhizome.

4, sores and swelling. Trichosanthes root can clear away heat, purge fire and detoxify, and it can also reduce swelling and expel pus to treat sores. It can be used to treat sores that have just started, and those that have not developed pus due to heat and toxin can be dissipated, and those that have developed pus can be ulcerated and discharged.

5. The main taboo of Trichosanthes root is that it is not suitable to use aconite drugs at the same time.