Chinese Pulsatilla Root

Primarily produced in Anhui, Henan, and the northern and northeastern provinces of China.

Root is long cylindrical or conical, slightly curved, or slightly twisted and screwed; 5~20cm long, 0.5~2cm diameter. Externally yellowish-brown or brown, with irregular longitudinal wrinkles or grooves, sometimes 2~3 branches in the middle; cortex easily falls off and exposes a yellow xylem, often rotten to a concave hole and presenting raised longitudinal reticular fissured lines; the head of root is enlarged, often with branches, with remnants of a sheath-shaped petiole and white downy hairs. Hard and brittle texture, flat fractured surface; phloem is yellowish-white; xylem is yellow; sometimes a gap in the middle of phloem and xylem. faint odor; taste slightly bitter and astringent.

Superior medicinal material is thick, long, and firm.

Bitter, cold.

Clears hear, resolves toxin, cools the blood, relieves dysentery, eliminating dampness and destroying parasites. Apply to heat dysentery, epistaxis, hemorrhoid hemorrhage, leucorrhea, pudendum itch, ulcer and carbuncle, struma.