Production RegionsPrimarily produced in the Chinese provinces of Jiangsu, Henan, Hubei, Zhejiang.
Macroscopic FeaturesCremocarp, oval-shaped, often cracked into mericarps. Externally pale greenish-brown or brownish-yellow, apex has remnants of style base, base is blunt round, back side is raised, with 4 narrow wing-like ridges that each have one row of yellowish-white hooked burrs, the base of the second ridge has a faint main ridge, with scattered short soft hairs, jointed side is smooth, with 3 veins and soft hairs. Kernel is off-white, oily. Light weight; distinctively aromatic odor when crushed by hands, slightly acrid, bitter taste.
Quality RequirementsSuperior medicinal material has large fruit, brownish-yellow color, distinctively odor when crushed.
PropertiesBitter, acrid, neutral
FunctionsKills worms, removes accumulation. Apply to roundworm, pinworm and teniasis, enterozoic abdominalgia, retarded growth in infants due to malnutrition.
OriginThe dried mature fruit of Daucus carota L.(Apiaceae). Harvest in autumn when the fruit is mature and cut the twig with fruits, sun-dry, remove the fruit by striking, and remove the foreign matter.
