It is a kind of traditional Chinese medicine with pungent and sweet flavor, great heatiness and toxicity. It has the efficacy of returning yang to save the body (saving fainting and unconsciousness by warming yang qi), tonifying fire to help yang (replenishing the body’s yang qi), and dispersing cold and relieving pain (relieving pain by dispelling the body’s cold evils). It is often used for treating deficiency of dead yang, cold limbs and weak pulse, deficiency of heart yang, chest paralysis (stuffy pain in the chest), heart pain, cold vomiting and diarrhea, cold pain in the epigastric region (cold pain in the stomach and abdomen), deficiency of kidney yang (deficiency of yang qi in kidneys), impotence and cold uterus, cold and oedema of the yin, deficiency of yang in the external senses, and cold-dampness paralysis and pain. In terms of its efficacy and action, the Chinese medicine epiphyllum cannot turn gray hair into black hair. Epiphyllum is toxic, overdose can lead to poisoning. If you need to use the medicine, you should be under the guidance of a Chinese doctor to identify the evidence, do not buy and use on your own, so as not to affect your health.