Generally, the medicinal properties of food are mediocre, and there is little curative effect of dredging meridians, and the content of effective components in medicine is also relatively low. Generally speaking, what can dredge meridians cannot be eaten as food frequently, and long-term consumption will have side effects.

Some medicines can be boiled in water for a long time or stewed in soup.

Three or seven tastes sweet, slightly bitter and cold. Entering the liver and stomach meridians. Efficacy: removing blood stasis, stopping bleeding, reducing swelling and relieving pain.

Bulbus Allii Macrostemon is pungent, bitter and warm. Enter lung, stomach and large intestine meridian. Efficacy: activating yang and dispersing stagnation, promoting qi circulation and guiding stagnation.

Angelica is sweet, pungent and warm. Liver, heart and spleen meridians entered. Efficacy: enriching blood, promoting blood circulation, regulating menstruation, relieving pain and moistening intestines.

Salvia miltiorrhiza tastes bitter and slightly cold. Heart tropism and liver meridian. Efficacy: promoting blood circulation, regulating menstruation, removing blood stasis, relieving pain, clearing heart fire, relieving vexation, cooling blood and eliminating carbuncle.

Ginger, onion, pepper, etc. Can be used for external use, dispelling cold, resolving hard mass and dredging collaterals.