The root of mugwort is mainly bitter, dry and pungent, and can regulate qi and blood, warm the meridians, expel cold and dampness, stop cold and pain, for gynecological medicine. It is used to treat cold pain in the epigastrium and abdomen, cold menstrual disorders, cold uterus, infertility and other evidence, such as wormwood warming the uterus pill.

The five-fingered peach has the function of strengthening the spleen and tonifying the lungs, promoting qi and dampness, and relaxing the tendons and activating the collaterals, and it is often used by traditional Chinese medicine practitioners or ethnic minority folk doctors in the Lingnan region to treat spleen deficiency and edema, poor appetite and weakness, consumptive cough, night sweating, under the belt, postpartum lactation, irregular menstruation, rheumatism and paralysis, and oedema, and other conditions.