Folium Isatidis has the main functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials, cooling blood and stopping bleeding, and can be used to treat diseases such as excessive thirst due to epidemic febrile disease, influenza, acute infectious hepatitis, bacillary dysentery, acute gastroenteritis, acute pneumonia, erysipelas, hematemesis, epistaxis, jaundice, dysentery, laryngitis, aphtha, carbuncle and swelling.