Kapok is a Chinese herbal medicine included in the Chinese Pharmacopoeia, healthy people can not eat, in line with the indications, after diagnosis and diagnosis is usually allowed to eat, the specific use of medication need to follow the doctor’s instructions. Kapok, sweet taste, cool nature, can enter the large intestine meridian, good at clearing heat and dampness (to remove heat and dampness in the body), detoxification, applicable to diarrhea, dysentery, bleeding, hemorrhoids and other diseases. As a flavor of Chinese medicine, although kapok is not toxic, but healthy people should not be used blindly, so as not to affect the body. Those who suffer from the above mentioned diseases can use this medicine under the guidance of a doctor. Kapok is commonly used in the clinic to decoct soup to improve diseases such as damp-heat diarrhea, dysentery, summer sweating (irritability and sultriness), hemoptysis and so on. Patients should not take kapok indiscriminately when using kapok, need to ask a professional Chinese medicine practitioner to diagnose the condition first, and then follow the doctor’s instructions to use the drug.