Konxia Root

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

Long conical or long fusiform, with a few branches, slightly curved, 3~12cm long, 0.6~1.2cm diameter. Externally brownish-red or grayish-brown, with twisted longitudinal wrinkles, apex has scars of stem. Firm texture but easily broken, fractured surface has reddish-brown cortex and brownish-yellow xylem. faint odor; slightly acrid taste.

Superior medicinal material is large, firm, reddish-brown.

Bitter, cold, toxic.

Drains water, expels rheum, resolves toxin, disperses stagnation. Apply to chest and abdominal hydrocele, difficulty in urination and defecation, abscess and sore toxin, scrofula and gall.