Dried Dendrobium is a medicinal food, and the correct way to take it as a traditional Chinese medicine is to decoct the soup and take it internally. When consumed as food, the correct way to eat includes making wine, tea or cooking. Dried Dendrobium is cold in nature and sweet in flavor when used as a traditional Chinese medicine, which belongs to the stomach and kidney meridians. It is effective in benefiting the stomach and generating fluids (nourishing the stomach by replenishing fluids in the stomach), nourishing yin and clearing heat. It is mainly used for treating heat disease with fluid injury, dry mouth and thirst, gastric yin deficiency (insufficient yin fluid in the stomach), dry vomiting with little food, deficiency heat that does not subside after illness, yin deficiency and fire (deficiency of yin essence in the body, which gives rise to hyperactive deficiency and fire), bone vapor and laborious heat, darkness of the eyes, and impotence of the muscles and bones. Dried Dendrobium is used as a decoction when used as a traditional Chinese medicine. Dried Dendrobium as a kind of food, high nutritional value, as a food consumption method is more, appropriate consumption can supplement the body’s nutritional needs. Dried Dendrobium should be consulted with a doctor before use to avoid adverse reactions.