Analysis of illness: Saussurea involucrata has the functions of dispelling cold, strengthening yang, regulating menstruation and stopping bleeding, and is mainly used to treat impotence, soreness of waist and knees, metrorrhagia, irregular menstruation, rheumatoid arthritis, traumatic bleeding and other diseases.

Suggestion: It needs to be soaked in white wine or yellow wine, and generally it should not be soaked in wine, so as to avoid its effect of expelling wind and removing dampness from the body. It can also be cooked with squab, astragalus root and medlar.