Snowbellleaf Tickclover Herb

Primarily produced in the Chinese provinces of Hunan, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi.

Dry stem is cylindrical, up to 60cm long, 2~5mm thick; externally pale brownish-yellow, densely covered in yellow soft hairs, brittle texture and easily broken, fractured surface is pale yellow, center has white pith. Wrinkled leaves easily fallen off; upper side is grayish-green to dark green, without hairs; lower side is pale green, densely covered white hairs. Nodes often have stipules, pointy lanceolate-conical, pale brown. Crude drug occasionally contains flower and fruits. faint odor; tasteless.

Superior medicinal material is leafy and green.

Sweet, tasteless; neutral

Clears heat, eliminates dampness, promotes urination, frees strangury. Apply to pyretic stranguria, sandy stranguria, stony strangury, and astringent pain during urination, edema and oliguria, jaundice, reddish urine, lithangiuria.