Edible Kudzuvine Root

Primarily produced in the Chinese provinces of Hunan, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Anhui.

Cylindrical, semi-fusiform or semi-cylindrical, some longitudinal or oblique thick slices, uneven in size. After removing the outer skin, externally yellowish-white or pale yellow; without removing outer skin, exterior is grayish-brown. Firm and heavy texture, only slightly fibrous, sometimes cotton-like, powdery.

Superior medicinal material is large, firm, white, powdery and lack of fiber.

Sweet, acrid; cool.

Resolves flesh, abates heat, outthrusts measles, engenders fluid, relieves thirst, raises yang, relieves diarrhea. Apply to fever caused by exogenous pathogens, rigid and pain of head and neck, early period of measles, measles without adequate eruptions, thirst due to heat disease, diabetes, diarrhea, dysentery, hypertension, coronary heart disease.