Cotton seed is sweet, demulcent, laxative, tonic, emollient, diuretic, expectorant, nervine tonic, aphrodisiac, spermatogenic and galactagogue. It is used as a nervine tonic in headaches and brain affections. It reduces menstrual bleeding and is useful in endometriosis, amenorrhea and in the treatment of metrorrhagia specially when dependant on fibroids.

Also useful in dysentery, diarrhea and also in the inflammation of the small intestines. It is of great value in sexual lassitude and increases milk flow of nursing mothers by increasing the secretory activity of the mammary gland. It also expels the placenta afterbirth.