Parasitic tea has the functions of expelling wind and dampness, nourishing liver and kidney, strengthening bones and muscles, preventing miscarriage, improving immune function, resisting arrhythmia, increasing coronary flow and lowering blood pressure.

Wuzhou mulberry parasitic tea is a traditional health tea in Guangxi, also known as Guangsheng. It is said that birds stopped to peck at some fruits in mulberry trees, and some of them stuck on branches or wounds of Theaceae, Urticaceae, etc. and parasitized, absorbing the nutrients of the trees to grow. People collect the tender leaves of this parasite and make it into tea, that is, mulberry parasitic tea. Its nodes, stems, branches and leaves can be used as medicine for tea, decoction and wine soaking. Bitter, sweet, peaceful, neither cold nor hot, tonifying kidney and blood.