Medicinal Cyathula officinalis Root

Primarily produced in the Chinese provinces of Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou.

Sub-cylindrical, slightly twisted, slightly thin or seldom branches downwards, 30~60cm long, 0.5~3cm diameter. Externally yellowish-brown or grayish-brown, some slightly twisted longitudinal wrinkles, lateral root and many horizontal scattered lenticels-like raised. Pliable texture, not easily broken; fractured surface is pale yellow or brownish-yellow, with vein bundle spots arranged into numerous concentric rings. faint odor; sweet taste.

Superior medicinal material has few braches, thick roots, pale yellow fractured surface.

Sweet, slightly bitter; neutral.

Expels stasis, frees menstruation, benefits the joints, promotes moist urination, frees strangury. Apply to amenorrhea and abdominal mass, lacenta retension, joint impediment, foot paralysis and tendon spasms, hematuria and bloody stranguria, falls wounds.