In traditional Chinese medicine, groundnut has the effect of quenching thirst (promoting the production of fluid to relieve thirst), and can assist in the treatment of fever and thirst, etc. Groundnut should not be consumed by those who have a weak spleen and stomach (spleen and stomach are weak and cold), or those who have loose stools. Groundnut is the tuberous root of bean yam of the legume family, sweet in taste, cool in nature, belonging to the lung and stomach meridians, with certain efficacy of generating fluids to quench thirst, and is often used to alleviate thirst in febrile illnesses, with specific symptoms visible such as thirst, fever, red face, red eyes, red pharynx, sore throat, or coughing, disturbed and restlessness, inability to think of food and drink, lack of energy, constipation, and reddish-colored urine. Adverse effects of groundnut is not clear, but its medicinal properties of cool, cold constitution, cold diarrhea, cold spleen and stomach, loose stools should not be consumed in large quantities of a single taste, women suffering from dysmenorrhea and women during menstruation should not be consumed. Groundnut needs to be used under the guidance of a professional physician to identify the evidence, and should not be taken without authorization.