Firstly, patients with cheilitis can eat shepherd's purse; it will not affect the recovery of cheilitis nor the treatment of the patients.

However, patients must understand that eating shepherd's purse does not treat cheilitis. Shepherd's purse is a name for a type of Chinese herbal medicine, primarily used to invigorate the spleen, promote urination, stop bleeding, and improve vision. It has certain therapeutic effects on dysentery, edema, gonorrhea, as well as hematemesis or bloody stools, but it does not have a therapeutic effect on cheilitis.

The causative factors of cheilitis are not yet very clear, so it is recommended that patients with cheilitis should go to a formal hospital for examination, eliminate irritating factors, and clarify the specific type of cheilitis. Then, treatment should be targeted based on the cause.