Echinocereus pinus is the spine of the sour date plant of the Rhamnaceae family, which is a kind of traditional Chinese medicine. Echinocereus is pungent in taste and cold in nature, with the effects of clearing away heat and detoxification (removing heat and toxicity from the body), subduing swellings and relieving pain (eliminating swelling and pain), it can be used for treating carbuncle and swelling, paralysis of throat (throat is red, swollen, and painful, or dry, with a feeling of a foreign body, or itchy throat with discomfort and difficulty in swallowing), blood in the urine, lumbago, and abdominal pain and other illnesses. Echinocereus and cloves, musk can be used to treat head wind pain; echinocereus and guatee can be used to treat all noma in children. Echinocereus is cold in nature, easy to injure yang qi, and should not be taken by people with cold spleen and stomach (spleen and stomach weakness and cold), it is not recommended that patients use it by themselves.