Chuo Ko-hua, a scholar of folk customs and ancient monuments who has spent time studying divination poems and who also has an understanding of Chinese herbal medicine, says that the remedies prescribed by medicinal oracles were not powerful and were mainly tonics, but they could sometimes cure minor ailments.
對籤詩曾下工夫研讀、對中藥也有研究的民俗古蹟學者卓克華說，藥籤的藥味都不烈，多是補精益神作用，小病有時會醫好。