Folding root, also known as fritillary, can be eaten as a food as well as an herbal medicine that can be used in conjunction with other herbs for its healing properties. Fishwort as food is rich in nutritional value, containing carbohydrates, dietary fiber, vitamin A, carotene, vitamin C, calcium, phosphorus, potassium, sodium and so on. It can be used for cooking and stewing, such as cold fishweed, fishweed mixed with lettuce, fishweed fried shredded pork, fried fishweed with egg, fishweed stewed with snow pear and so on. As a medicine, Fishwort is pungent in flavor, cold in nature, and belongs to the lung meridian. It has the efficacy of clearing away heat and detoxification (removing heat and toxicity in the body), eliminating carbuncle and discharging pus (eliminating carbuncle and discharging pus), diuretic and diaphoretic (improving the problem of dribbling urine, and the problem of small and incomprehensible amount of urine), etc. It is used in the treatment of phlegm-heat and asthma, dysentery, cystitis, and suppurative infections of the skin and soft tissues. Fritillary has the effect of clearing heat and removing toxins, and is often used in conjunction with Platycodon grandiflorum, donggua zi, fresh rehmannia root, gua vulgaris bark, raw coix seed, and peach kernel. Fritillary is both a food and a herbal medicine. When used as food, it only serves the function of providing nutrients. When used as a medicinal herb, it should be taken in accordance with a doctor’s prescription.