Clitoria ternatea has multiple uses which include the following:

Food: the most used part in food is the flower. In Southeast Asia and Malasia,the flowers are used to colour food. In Thailand, they use the flowers to make a syrup blue drink called nam dok anchan and this drink is sometimes consumed with a drop of sweet lime juice to increase acidity and turn the juice into pink-purple. In Burmese and Thai cuisines, the flowers are also dipped in batter and fried.

Medicine: in traditional Hindu system of medicine, it is ascribed various qualities including, memory enhancing, antistress, anxiolytic, antidepressant, anticonvulsant, tranquilizing, and sedative properties. In traditional Chinese medicine, due to its appearance, similar to the female reproductive organ, it was used traditionally in an attempt to treat sexual ailments, such as infertility and gonorrhea, to control menstrual discharge, and also as an aphrodisiac.

Horticulture: it is grown as an ornamental plant, trained on an arbor or chain link fence. It also looks great in a hanging basket. It is used as a revegetation species (e.g., in coal mines in Australia), requiring little care when cultivated. It can be grown with elephant grass (Pennisetum purpureum ), and forage sorghums (Sorghum bicolor) and millets as well as Panicum maximum.  Also sown with pangola (Digitaria eriantha ) as a pasture, and Andropogon gayanus and Dichanthium aristatum.

Nitrogen fixation: this plant is also used to improve soil quality through the decomposition of nitrogen rich plant material.