Mass or irregular fusiform, 6-15 cm long, 4-12 cm in diameter. Externally reddish-brown, shrunken and uneven, shallowly grooved, with transverse elongated lenticels and fine rootlet scars. Texture heavy, compact, uneasily broken, fracture pale yellow-brown or reddish-brown, starchy, bark exhibiting 4-11subrounded rings of abnormal vascular bundles, forming brocaded patterns, wood in central part relatively large, some having a woody core. Odourless; taste, bitterish, sweetish and astringent.

Lymphadentitis, carbuncles, urticaria with itching; constipation; hyperlipemia.

1. Fleece-flower root is efficacious in the treatment of toxicosis, inflammation and constipation.

It is mainly used in the treatment of abscess, scrofula, sores and carbuncle, rubella, constipation and hyperlipemia.

2. Processed fleece-flower root has the function of invigorating the liver and kidney, replenishing vital essence and blood, nourishing the hair and strengthening the bones and muscles.

It is usually used to treat such conditions as deficiency of blood with pale complexion, dizziness and tinnitus, early whitening of beard and hair, weakness in loins and knees, numbness of the extremities, metrorrhagia and metrostaxis, excess leukorrhra, weakness due to lingering malaria, and hyperlipemia. Frequent administration of the drug alone can cure dyszoospermia.