It is mainly distributed in the southeastern to southwestern provinces of China. It has the functions of activating blood circulation and relieving pain, relieving blood stasis and opening the orifices, cooling the blood, lowering qi, stopping bleeding, protecting the liver, promoting bile, calming the mind, lowering blood lipids, fighting cancer and improving immunity. Its cold nature enters the heart meridian and clears the heart heat, so it can be used for the faintness of the mind caused by phlegm clouding the heart and heat trapping the heart. Modern pharmacological studies have found that its volatile oil has a restorative effect on damaged liver cells, mitochondria and endoplasmic reticulum, so it has liver-protective and choleretic effects; the curcuminoids in tulip have a central nervous system inhibiting effect, which can have a calming effect. In addition, tulip can lower blood viscosity, inhibit platelet aggregation, and inhibit a variety of fungal infections of the skin.