It is useful in vitiated conditions of kappa, the body fluid principles relate to mucus and pitta, an energy principle which use bile to direct digestion . The root extract has wide range of pharmacological properties thus used against ailments such as arthralgia, arthritis, cephalalgia, cough, diabetes, discoloration of the skin, dysmenorrhea, emmenagogue, general debility, hemorrhoids, hepatopathy, intermittent fevers, jaundice, leucorrhea, neuralgia, pectoral diseases, pharyngitis, ophthalmopathy, otopathy, splenopathy, strangury, slow healing of broken bones, tubercular conditions of the skin and mucous tissue, tuberculosis and urethrorrhoea . R.cordifolia is used in treatment of various illnesses in Ethiopian traditional medicinal practices.