Scutellaria baicalensis is a medicine for clearing heat and drying dampness, characterized by bitterness and coldness, belonging to the lung, spleen, stomach, gallbladder and large and small intestine meridians, with efficacy mainly in clearing heat and drying dampness, dipping fire and detoxicating, stopping bleeding and calming the fetus. Scutellaria baicalensis is commonly used clinically to treat the following diseases: 1. Clearing heat and drying dampness: Scutellaria baicalensis can clear damp-heat in the spleen, lung, stomach, liver, gallbladder, large and small intestines, and is especially good at treating damp-heat in the middle and upper jiao, such as damp-heat stagnation and blockage of the qi flow that leads to chest congestion, coughing and asthma, or heat in the body. In addition, Scutellaria baicalensis is good at clearing damp-heat in the large intestine, such as dysentery and dysentery; 2. cooling the blood and detoxifying the toxin: it can be used for sores and swellings; 3. clearing heat and calming the fetus: it is used for irritability and fetal movement in pregnant women; 4. Scutellaria baicalensis is an important medicine for clearing lung heat, and can be used for coughing with lung heat, coughing up yellow phlegm, or for irritable thirst in fever.