* The herb is often used in combination with medicated leaven, hawthorn fruit, areca seed and other herbs for relieving food stagnation, to treat food retention, anorexia, distention and fullness in the stomach and abdomen and indigestion, and with white atractylodes rhizome amomum fruit, chicken's gizzard-skin and other drugs for supplementing Qi, strengthening the spleen, promoting digestion and inducing appetite, to treat deficiency of the spleen and anorexia.
* To cease lactation and to relieve distending pain due to milk accumulation, a large dose of the herb can be decocted for use.
==Used in Patent MedecineMedicine==
* [[Mu Xiang Shun Qi Wan]]
* [[Bao He Wan]]