痈疔（体表化脓性感染及有毒的疖肿）使用此药，可以治疗软化坚硬的肿块和痔疮，对于稻麦芒刺粘在咽喉的情况，嚼烂后咽下即可缓解。
四季梗叶常青，冬天也不凋谢。被毒蛇咬伤时，捣碎取汁饮用，并将药渣涂抹在伤口处，立即痊愈。
用盐水拌炒蒸制，可滋补肾阴不足，增强阴气并固摄精气，主要起到收敛作用。
去除外皮和绒毛，切片焙干。药性微寒，治疗乳痈（急性乳腺炎）和疔毒。
用酒拌匀晒干，可清除湿热壅结，通畅大肠便秘，杀虫并消除积滞。
治疗顽固性内热，缓解嘴唇干燥、口中口渴，治愈热毒引起的痈肿并排出脓液。
药性寒，用酒润制，治疗膀胱蓄热，通利大小便，治疗下部红色痈肿。
药性微寒，能疏通闭塞的月经，通利小便，调和血脉，清除潜伏的热邪，消散痈肿，促进乳汁下行。
消除痈毒，取活藤煎煮成膏，将花朵拌入其中收晒，其解毒功效比花朵强百倍，夏天每天取少许（约一钱），用滚开水冲服，当作茶喝。
药性寒，称其为治疗瘰疬（颈部淋巴结结核）的神药是错误的，应当禁用。
去除外皮，只取白色果肉，可杀灭腹内各种寄生虫。外皮红色的品种忌用。
五月初，取嫩茎叶捣烂，用醋煎成膏，治疗癣疾；生用可穿透痈肿，若无醋则可治疗横痃（腹股沟淋巴结肿大）。
解除烦热，通利孔窍，治疗中风、口疮、眼痛以及胸中痰热毒邪。药店有售，叶子像竹叶，非常薄；茎梗像柴心，非常细，长约七寸的是正品，如今有些医生误用草开绿花的品种，令人叹息。
治疗小儿惊风痰证，每次取二钱，加入雄黄、牵牛子末各一钱，研匀，用面糊做成丸子，如粟米大小，每次服用五丸，用薄荷汤送下，治疗失音不语。
在热汤中浸泡七次，去尽苦涩烈性，治疗疮疡，生用或炒熟后研末使用。
炒熟后研末，可消除皮里膜外阴寒性质的痰核，非此药不能消散。
For carbuncles and ding sores (toxic furuncles), it can soften hardness and treat hemorrhoids. For rice or wheat awns stuck in the throat, chewing them thoroughly and swallowing brings immediate relief.
The stems and leaves remain evergreen throughout the four seasons and do not wither in winter. For snakebites, crush the plant to extract juice for drinking, and apply the residue topically; healing is immediate.
Steamed after mixing with salt water, it nourishes insufficient kidney yin, strengthens yin and secures essence, primarily functioning as an astringent.
After removing the skin and hairs, slice and bake. It is slightly cold in nature and treats breast abscesses (acute mastitis) and ding toxins.
Sun-dried after mixing with wine, it resolves damp-heat stagnation, unblocks intestinal constipation, kills parasites, and eliminates accumulations.
It treats stubborn internal heat, relieves dry lips and thirst, and cures heat-toxin carbuncles by promoting pus discharge.
Cold in nature, moistened with wine, it treats bladder accumulated heat, promotes urination and defecation, and treats red carbuncles in the lower body.
Slightly cold in nature, it opens blocked menstruation, promotes urination, harmonizes blood vessels, clears latent heat, dissipates carbuncle swelling, and promotes lactation.
To eliminate toxin from carbuncles, take the live vine, decoct into a paste, mix with flowers, and sun-dry. Its detoxifying power is a hundred times stronger than that of the flowers alone. In summer, take about one qian daily, dissolve in boiling water, and drink as tea.
Promotes urination and acts on the kidneys and bladder. Contraindicated for those who already have functions of draining turbidity.
Cold in nature. The claim that it is a miraculous drug for treating scrofula (cervical lymphadenitis) is erroneous; it should be strictly contraindicated.
Remove the skin and take only the white flesh to kill various worms in the abdomen. Varieties with red skin are contraindicated.
In early May, take the tender parts, crush them, and decoct with vinegar into a paste to treat tinea. Used raw, it penetrates carbuncles; without vinegar, it can treat buboes (inguinal lymphadenitis).
Relieves irritability and heat, unblocks orifices, treats wind-stroke, mouth ulcers, eye pain, and phlegm-heat toxins in the chest. Sold in pharmacies, the leaves resemble bamboo leaves and are very thin; the stems resemble twigs, are very fine, and about seven cun long. It is lamentable that modern physicians mistakenly use plants with green flowers.
Treats pediatric convulsive phlegm. Take two qian each time, add one qian each of realgar powder and morning glory seed powder, grind uniformly, bind with dough to make pills the size of millet seeds. Take five pills per dose, delivered with mint decoction. Treats aphonia and inability to speak.
Soak in hot water seven times to remove all bitterness and acridity. Treats sores; used raw or stir-fried and ground.
Stir-fried and ground, it eliminates cold-phlegm nodules located between the skin and fascia; no other herb can resolve them.
Effective for various gynecological conditions. Invigorates blood, breaks blood stasis, regulates menstruation, stops pain, and reduces edema by promoting water metabolism.
Sprinkled with wine and baked. In small doses, it unblocks meridians and invigorates blood; in large doses, it breaks blood and removes blood stasis.
Steeped in wine and stir-fried. Slightly warm in nature, enters the liver meridian, reconnects bones and tendons, assists qi and blood, dissipates blood clumps, and is used for postpartum conditions and traumatic injuries to promote blood circulation and stop bleeding.