The whole herb is used as medicine to treat acute hepatitis, acute cholecystitis, bruises and stasis.

Xi Huangcao active ingredient xi huangcao pigment A, tailleaf vanillin A, has anticancer activity, on the human cervical cancer cells have a significant inhibitory effect. Scholars at home and abroad have set off a research craze on Xixi Huangcao, and hundreds of papers have been published. It has been reported that the main active ingredients of Xihuangcao are flavonoids, which have a significant inhibitory effect on the replication of hepatitis viruses, with a clinical effect as high as 84%, which is even superior to the combination of interferon and ribavirin.

Xi Huangcao is a popular anti-hepatitis herb in China. More than 10 kinds of Xi Huangcao preparations have been developed in China, but no single-ingredient Xi Huangcao preparation has yet to receive a national drug license. It is estimated that the sales volume of Xihuangcao preparations is about 100~200 million RMB. Domestic enterprises have already utilized Xihuangcao and white flower snakeweed, tiger's stick, danshen, etc. to process compounded medicines for the treatment of chronic hepatitis B or hepatitis C.

While xi huang cao has on the human body heat detoxification has a certain role, but its side effects are also inevitable, if a long time to take xi huang cao, but also will produce certain side effects, the composition of the agent content is different, the side effects are also different, reasonable use of xi huang cao produced by the side effects of the less, the current xi huang cao caused by the serious symptoms, now is not yet known. If you take xi huang cao improperly but will be counterproductive, aggravate the burden on the liver, affect the condition.