Based on Traditional Herbal Medicine, gypsum can be used to:

1. Reduces high fever, no chills, irritability, intense thirst, profuse sweating, restlessness, encephalitis, a big pulse, and a red tongue with a yellow coat.
2. Relieves cough, wheezing, fever, and thick viscous sputum. 
3. Heals eczema, burns, and ulcerated sores and wounds