Perilla, as a dye plant, contains flavonoid pigments that are capable of dyeing yellow, gray-green, and so on.

Perilla is used medicinally and as a spice. The medicinal part of the stem and leaves and seeds are mainly, the leaves for sweating, cough, aromatic stomachic diuretic, analgesic, sedative, detoxification, treatment of colds, stalks have the effect of calming qi to stabilize the fetus, the son of the cough, expectorant, asthma, dispersal of the spirit of the dreary. The leaves are also used for food, and cooking with meat can increase the flavor of the latter. Seeds of the oil extracted, the name of the suzuki oil, for food, but also has an antiseptic effect, for industrial use.