Malantou is a kind of wild vegetable, and people often pick young leaves and eat them cold. Chinese medicine believes that Malan is slightly cold and sweet, and has the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials, reducing swelling and resolving hard mass, cooling blood and promoting diuresis, and is suitable for hematemesis, epistaxis, bloody dysentery, edema, jaundice, sore throat, stranguria, gangrene, traumatic bleeding, poisonous snake bite, mumps, mastitis, acute viral hepatitis, tonsillitis and other diseases.

Malan's head is slightly cold, so it is not suitable for people with deficiency of spleen and stomach.