Moneywort is flat in taste, slightly salty, and enters the liver, gallbladder and bladder meridians, with the effect of tonifying the bile and reducing yellow, and tonifying water and laxative. Drinking water with moneywort can promote bile secretion and excretion, and can treat damp-heat jaundice. Goldenseal is also used for hot gonorrhea, short, red and astringent painful urination. It can promote the elimination of stones in the bile ducts, and has the effect of facilitating the removal of stones from the bile ducts. It can treat sores and canker sores, as well as redness, swelling, heat and pain caused by poisonous snake bites.