In the TCM system, the herb Rhizoma Imperatae (Baimaogen) indicated for various ailments including: blood-heat and hematemesis (heat in blood and spitting blood), bleeding from five aperture or subcutaneous tissue, hematuria (urinating blood), pyrexia with polydipsia, jaundice, pyretic stranguria inhibited painful urination(painful heat stranguria), lung heat and dyspnea with rapid respiration, acute nephritis edema, stomach heat with hiccup, clap (gonorrhoea, blenorrhagia, gonorrhea), dysuria (difficulty in micturition), dripping discharge of urine inhibited painful urination, edema (oedema, dropsy, hydroncus), jaundice (icterus).

Dosage:Suggested Dosage internal as decoction of dry herb 10~30 grams,fresh herb 30~60grams,or pounding juice,external proper amount fresh herb pounding juice and apply.

1. Blood heat causing bleeding       
It can cool the blood and stop bleeding and is efficient for bleeding of the upper and lower parts of the body. It also has the actions of clearing away the heat in the liver and the stomach, and of promoting diuresis, therefore, it is especially efficient for Hematemesis, Emptysis, hematuria and blood straguria. It can be taken orally decocted or smashed into juice alone or combined with other hemostatic medicinal to enhance to effect.

2. Stranguria of the heat type, edema       
It is the best medicinal for these two kinds of confitions: stranguria of heat type and edema. For stranguria of heat type, it ican be combined with medicinals that can clear away heat, promote diureisis, and relieve stranguria. In case of edema it can be combined together with edema-alleviation diuretics.

3. Stomach-heat causing vomiting and lung-heat causing cough     
It is able to treat vomiting through clearing away stomach-heat, and to relieve cough through clearing away lung-heat as well. For vomiting, it is usually combined with Gegen, such as in the Maogen Decoction. Yet, for cough, it is often combined with Sangbaipi.