Andrographis paniculata can be eaten raw, but its flavor is very bitter, eaten raw easy to cause nausea and vomiting. Andrographis paniculata is the dried above-ground part of Andrographis paniculata, mostly used raw. Its flavor is bitter, cold in nature. It belongs to the heart, lung, large intestine and bladder meridians. Its effects include clearing heat and removing toxins (removing heat and toxins from the body), cooling the blood, subduing swelling and drying dampness. Andrographis paniculata can be used to treat wind-heat colds, sore throat, mouth and tongue sores, lung carbuncle spitting pus (coughing up pus and blood from suppurative infections in the lungs), carbuncle swollen sores and ulcers, snake and insect bites, damp-heat diarrhea (diarrhea caused by damp-heat), heat shower (burning and stinging pain in urination, accompanied by frequent urination and urgency, discomfort of abdominal traction), astringent pain, eczema, itchy, etc. It can be used to treat heat-poison attack on the throat, sore throat, sore throat, mouth and tongue, lung abscess infection and vomiting of blood. For the treatment of heat and toxicity attack, sore throat, mouth and tongue sores, it is often used together with Xuan Shen, Burdock, Ban Lan Gen; for the treatment of phlegm-heat congestion of the lungs (phlegm-heat evils clogging the lungs), wheezing (wheezing and shortness of breath) and shortness of breath, it is often used together with Scutellaria Baicalensis and Dictyostelium; for the treatment of carbuncle coughing and vomiting of pus and blood, it can be used together with Fritillariae Cumminsii, Platanum Vulgare, and Dictyostelium Vulgare. Note that this medicine should not be taken more than once for a long period of time, and should not be used by people with deficiency of spleen and stomach (weak and cold spleen and stomach). If you need to take it, it is recommended to consult a medical professional.