Malaytea Scurfpea Fruit

Primarily produced in Chinese provinces of Henan, Sichuan, Anhui.

Fruit is flat round and kidney-shaped; one end relatively pointy, rare persistent calyx. Huai bu gu zhi is 4~5.5mm long, 2~4mm wide, 1mm thick; chuan bu gu zhi is relatively small. Externally blackish-brown or brown, with intricate net-like wrinkles. Relatively hard and brittle texture. After being broken, fruit skin and seed outer coat are tightly connected, the seed indented side has spotted hilum below the apex, chalaza at the other end, unobvious raphe. Outer skin is harder, inner is membranous, grayish-white; 2 cotyledons, thick, pale yellow to pale yellowish-brown, getting darker with prolonged storage. White material can be seen on both surfaces as small needle-like crystals when magnified. Embryo is extremely small. Connected petiole bases, with 5 breaches, grayish-yellow, hairy, with dense brown gland points. Distinctive aromatic odor; taste slightly acrid.

Superior medicinal material is large, full, black.

Acrid, bitter; warm.

Warms kidney, assists yang, promotes qi absorption, regulates gasping, warm spleen, relieves diarrhea. Deficiency of kidney yang, cold of low, cold pain of waist and knees, impotence and seminalemission, frequent urination, urine emission, loose qi due to kidney, deficiency and gasping, deficiency of spleen and kidney, chronicle diarrhea, vitiligo, alopecia areata, psoriasis.