Snails, as medicinal animals, have a long history in China and are recorded in many ancient books. Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica recorded the characteristics, pharmacology and medicinal properties of snails in detail. Snail shells can be used as medicine to clear away heat and toxic materials, soften hardness, reduce swelling, relieve asthma and regulate hernia, and can be used to treat nocturia, frequent urination, salivation, red and white dysentery, blister pain and other symptoms in children, and can also be used for lying-in women, the elderly and children.

The Daily Express reported that using snail extract can predict breast cancer. Okubo Ren's folk secret recipe therapy and China's 4,000-year-old Encyclopedia of Health Secrets both record that snails have excellent effects of tonifying kidney and replenishing essence.

A variety of effective components extracted from snails can prevent and treat hypertension, hyperlipidemia, high blood viscosity and diabetes, and the negative rate of hepatitis B virus is about 80%. It also has the functions of conditioning, preventing diseases, strengthening body, preserving health and caring skin. Efficacy: clearing away heat, removing seeds and detoxifying. Indications: wind-heat shock and pain, thirst quenching, laryngitis, mumps, and lymphoid tuberculosis.