Kapok is used as a traditional Chinese medicine with the effects of clearing heat and removing dampness (removing heat and dampness from the body) and detoxifying the body. It can be used to treat diarrhea, dysentery, bleeding, hemorrhoids and other diseases. Kapok is the dried flower of Kapok, family Bombacaceae, which is cool in nature, sweet and light in flavor, and belongs to the large intestine meridian. Chinese medicine says cool can clear heat, light can diuresis (promote the operation of water to dispel dampness), while the kapok goes to the large intestine meridian, so you can treat the large intestine damp-heat (the large intestine to feel the damp-heat evil) of the evil congestion of intestinal due to diarrhea, such as enteritis, dysentery and so on. Kapok can also be used for the plague, warm poison and a variety of fever and poisonous diseases or sores, can be used in combination with honeysuckle, purple honeysuckle, chrysanthemum and other drugs. Kapok is used more decoction soup for internal use, the specific dosage should be standardized under the guidance of a physician to use the drug, do not take on their own.