Ferric subsulfate solution is a styptic or hemostatic agent used after superficial skin biopsies. Potassium alum is used in medicine mainly as an astringent (or styptic) and antiseptic. The leaves are used as an antiseptic, expectorant, febrifuge and styptic. Historically, has been used as a digestive aid, styptic, disinfectant or dentifrice. The species also shows anti-fertility, styptic, anthelmintic, anti-tubercular and antioxidant properties. Alum blocks and styptic pencils are used to close cuts resulting from the shave. It is used as a tattoo pigment and in styptic pencils. Though ordinary in appearance, he stores a blood-clotting styptic ointment in its hilt. The Knights used it as a styptic dressing for wounds and a cure for dysentery. The plant is known to have styptic properties. The species name come from the Ancient Greek "ischaemum", a styptic (causing ischemia). Styptic are also referred to as local hemostatics. In the folk medicine of Central Asia, "L. inebrians" is used as a styptic.