Toon contains vitamin E and sex hormone substances, with anti-aging and yang nourishing effect on infertility has a certain efficacy, so there is a "fertility" of the beauty of the name. At the same time, the toon contains toonin and other volatile aromatic organic substances, can strengthen the spleen and stomach, increase appetite. It has the effect of clearing away heat and dampness, diuretic and detoxification, and is a good medicine to assist in the treatment of enteritis, dysentery and urinary tract infection. China is the only country in the world where the young shoots and leaves of the toon are used as a delicacy. Shandong, Anhui, Henan, Shaanxi, Sichuan and southern Hunan and northern Guangxi are cultivated, of which Anhui's Taihe toon is the most famous.

The general public can eat toon. But the toon for the hair, food easily induced recurrence of chronic diseases, so patients with chronic diseases should eat less or do not eat. Toon is known as "tree vegetables", is the young shoots of the toon tree. Toon bitter, astringent, flat, into the liver, stomach, kidney meridian. The main treatment of sores, hair loss, red eyes, lung heat and cough and other diseases; can also be used for prolonged diarrhea and dysentery, hemorrhoids, hemorrhoids, leakage, treatment of ringworm, scabies and other diseases.