Oblate or conical, 1.5~3.5 cm high, base 1.5~3 cm in diameter. Externally pale yellowish-brown or pale reddish-brown, with slightly dented reticulate furrow, and a rounded concave micropyle in the centre of the base, by side with an obvious scar-shaped hilum. Texture hard, uneasily broken; fracture showing marble-like striations alternated with brown testa and white endosperm. Odour, slight; taste, astringent and slightly bitter.

Taeniasis, ascariasis, fasciolopsiasis; abdominal pain due to intestinal parasitosis; diarrhea and tenesmus due to accumulation of undigested food; edema and weakness of the legs; malaria.

1.Destroying paracites and removing food stagnancy

The drug can be used in treating various intestinal parasitic diseases such as teniasis, ascariasis, enterobiasis, fasciolopsiasis, etc., with better therapeutic effect on teniasis.It can also be used in combination with other anthelmintics.

2.Descending the adverse flow of Qi and loosing the bowels

The drug can be used in treating stagnation of food and stasis of Qi, abdominal distention and pain, constipation, or tensmus following diarrhea or dysentery, etc., and is often used in combination with Radix et Rhizoma Rhei, Radix Aucklandiae,etc.

3.Inducing diuresis to alleviate edema.

The drug can be used in treating flaccidity of lower limbs and is often used in combination with Fructus Perillae, fructus Euodiae, Rhizoma Zingiberis Recens, etc. In addition, the drug can also be used in treating malaria.