The medicinal value of mountain maitong and maitong is basically the same, both have the effect of nourishing yin, moistening the lungs and clearing the heart, and can be used to treat dry lungs and dry coughs, coughing with deficiency of yin and consumptive coughs, paralysis of the larynx (pharyngeal redness and swelling and pain, or dryness, with a sense of foreign bodies, or itchy throat discomfort, difficulty in swallowing), sore throat, and thirst with injury to the fluids, and so on. Mountain maitong is the dried tuberous root of Hubei maitong or short scape mountain maitong, while maitong is the dried tuberous root of maitong, but both have the same flavor and medicinal value. Both maitong and maitong are sweet, slightly bitter, slightly cold in nature, with the effect of nourishing yin and generating fluids, moistening the lungs and clearing the heart, and can be used as the medicine of dry lung and dry cough, cough with deficiency of yin and consumptive cough, paralysis of the larynx (pharyngeal redness, swelling and pain, or dryness, with a feeling of a foreign body, or itchy throat with discomfort and difficulty in swallowing) and pain in the throat, thirst with injury to the fluids, thirst with internal heat (fever in the body accompanied by symptoms such as overeating, excessive drinking, and excessive urination), and heartburn with insomnia, and other diseases. In addition, mountain maitake and maitake both belong to the Chinese herbal medicine, both should be in the doctor’s diagnosis under the guidance of the combination or use alone, do not blindly self-medication, so as not to cause adverse effects.