Sophora flavescens Ait

Detailed Product Description

Dried root was cylindrical, long 10 ~ 30 cm, diameter 1 to 2.4 centimeters. Significant vertical surface wrinkles, lenticel visible and slightly roll back, lateral extension. Quercus thin, brown-yellow or gray-brown, most broken out curl, easy to peel off and show a yellow smooth skin department. Quality hard and difficult to break, break thick fibrous surface. Cross-section of yellow-white to form a layer of clear. Gas pungent, taste very bitter. Sophora piece of the oblique slice, shape, sizes, oblique round or oblong, long 2 to 5 cm and width of 1 ~ 1.5 cm, thickness of 2 ~ 5 mm. Quality hard aspect yellowish white, are cyclic rings, xylem for radiation pattern. In order to tidy yellow and white color, bitter taste are better. Throughout the country are produced in order to Shanxi, Hubei, Henan, Hebei, a larger yield.

Indication heat dampness, insecticide, diuretic. For hot dysentery, hematochezia, jaundice, urine retention, Chibai vaginal discharge, vaginal swelling Yin itching, eczema, wet sores, skin itching, scabies, leprosy; outside the governance of Trichomonas vaginitis.