Ochre is used to calm the liver and subdue yang (suppressing too much yang rising in the liver), re-calming and subduing rebelliousness, cooling and stopping bleeding (cooling and moisturizing the blood to prevent bleeding), and is used in treating dizziness and ringing in the ears, vomiting, epistaxis, and discharging blood in the form of metrorrhagia (menstruation that is too profuse or dribbling). It can be taken by decoction in the method of consumption, or in pills and loose preparations. Ochre is bitter in taste and cold in nature, and belongs to the liver, heart, lung and stomach meridians. It has the efficacy of calming the liver and submerging the yang, re-calming and subduing the rebellions, descending the rebellions and stopping the bleeding, and is clinically used in the treatment of dizziness, ringing in the ears, vomiting, hiccups, coughing, wheezing, vomiting, epistaxis, and discharging blood in discharging menstrual flow. Ochre is a mineral drug that needs to be broken up and decocted first when decocting. The drug can also be incorporated into pills and loose preparations, and can also be used externally. It is usually used raw to calm the liver and reduce rebelliousness, and calcined when stopping bleeding. The adverse effects of Ochre are not clear, the drug is bitter and cold, easy to hurt the spleen and stomach, so it should be used with caution in people with cold spleen and stomach (spleen and stomach weak and cold), with little food and loose stools (feces are thin and not shaped), as well as in pregnant women. Ochre needs to be used under the guidance of a physician to identify the symptoms, and should not be used blindly on its own.