The root is used medicinally, with antipyretic, analgesic, diuretic and menstrual functions, and can be used to treat rheumatism, edema, neuralgia and hemorrhoid swelling and pain. As a pesticide, it has a good control effect on potato Fusarium wilt and red spider (northeast herbaceous flora).

Roots and Rhizomes (Clematis chinensis): The effect is the same as that of Clematis chinensis.

Clematis cottonkinensis is a traditional Chinese medicine named Clematis, which is mainly produced in Shandong and Northeast China. Pungent, salty, slightly bitter, warm in nature, and has the effects of expelling wind, removing dampness, dredging collaterals and relieving pain. It is mainly used to treat rheumatic arthralgia, muscle spasm, numbness of limbs, beriberi swelling and pain, bone choking, phlegm and blood stasis. Modern pharmacological research shows that clematis gossypii.