Japanese Pagodatree Fruit

Primarily produced in the Chinese provinces of Tianjin, Beijing, Henan, Shandong, Jiangsu, Anhui, Shaanxi, Hebei.

Linked shape. Externally yellowish-green or yellowish-brown, wrinkled and rough, back side has one yellow line. Soft and smooth texture, dry, easily broken at the wrinkled positions; fractured surface is yellowish-green, sticky. 1~6 seeds, kidney-shaped, externally smooth, brown-black; one side has grayish-white round hilum; hard texture; 2 cotyledons, yellowish-green. faint odor, bitter taste, with a bean-like taste when the seeds are chewed.

Superior medicinal material has fat and large shape, long horn, yellowish-green color, full body, smooth, dry, without foreign matter.

Bitter; cold.

Clears heat, drains fire, cools blood, stops blood. Apply to hemafecia due to intestinal heat, piles and hemorrhage, headache due to hepatic heat, vertigo and conjunctival congestion.