The difference between soapberry and soapnut is mainly in the medicinal parts, efficacy and main treatment. Soapberry for the legume soap pod spines, taste pungent, warm, to the liver, stomach meridian. It has the effect of subduing swelling and toxins, draining pus and killing insects, used for carbuncle (a kind of poisonous sores, occurring on the surface of the body, limbs, internal organs of the acute purulent disease) at the beginning or the pus into the ulceration, and the external treatment of scabies, ringworm and leprosy. Adverse reactions and contraindications of Soapwort are not clear. Soapwort is the fruit or sterile fruit of soap pods of the legume family Soappods, taste pungent, salty, warm, attributed to the lung, liver, stomach meridian. It has the efficacy of expelling phlegm and relieving cough, opening and closing the orifices, killing insects and dispersing knots, and is used for phlegm, cough and wheezing, stroke and mouth, fainting, epilepsy, incontinence, carbuncle, swelling and scabies. Adverse effects of Soapwort are not clear, and it is forbidden to be taken by those who are physically weak and pregnant women or those who suffer from hemoptysis. If you have a need for medication, it is recommended that you use it under the guidance of a professional physician, and not blindly self-medication.