This plant is a potent antioxidant, which may make this herb helpful in preventing heart disease and limiting the damage to the heart following a heart attack.
Chinese skullcap may even have anti-cancer properties, especially helpful in bladder, liver and other types of cancer.
This medicinal herb may prove useful as a treatment for hepatitis.

It also has antihistamine properties which make it a useful a herb for treating asthma and allergies, such as hay fever.
In traditional Chinese medicine baical skullcap is used to treat dysentery, common cold, irritability, diarrhea, infections accompanied by fever, urinary tract infections, gout, jaundice, nosebleed, vaginal bleed, abdominal pain and redness of the eyes and face.
This herb is also combined with other herbs to combat high cholesterol and triglycerides, high blood pressure, allergic diseases, and inflammatory skin diseases.