1. Ornamental use: Mangosteen has ornamental uses.
2. Material for weaving handicrafts: Its petioles can be used to weave into various baskets or other exquisite handicrafts.
3. Miscanthus is a good helper for soil and water conservation and soil improvement. Its rhizomes crawl across the soil surface and grow rapidly. It has the effect of soil and water conservation, and it is also a plant that can recover quickly after a fire.
4. Medicinal uses: In terms of traditional Chinese medicine, the rhizomes and leaves of Miscanthus can cure frostbite and can be collected and used throughout the year. Nature and flavor: branches, leaves, rhizome: sweet, light. Efficacy: Branches and leaves: clear away heat and detoxify, remove blood stasis and reduce swelling, disperse blood stasis and stop bleeding. It can be used to treat hemorrhoids, bleeding, epistaxis, high fever in children, bruises, carbuncles, rheumatism and itching, poisonous snake bites, burns, traumatic bleeding, burns, and poisonous insect bites.
5. An excellent herb for cultivating Ganoderma lucidum. Experiments show that the extraction rate of polysaccharide peptides, the active ingredient of Ganoderma lucidum cultivated with Miscanthus lucidum, is up to three times that of Ganoderma lucidum Duanmu, and its pharmacological effects are similar to those of Ganoderma lucidum Duanmu. Ganoderma lucidum has similar functions.
6． Natural dyes. Pigments can be extracted and used as natural dyes.
7. It grows abundantly on the slopes of acidic red soil and is an acidic soil indicator plant. This plant is of great significance for the investigation of ecological conditions.
The rhizome of this plant (Acanthus root) is also used for medicinal purposes. Please refer to this article for details.