Cremocarp, ellipsoidal, 2-4 mm long, about 2 mm in diameter. Externally greyish-yellow or greyish-brown; with 2 outcurved stylopods at the summit, and sometimes with a fine fruit stalk at the base. Dorsal surface of mericarps with five thin and longitudinal ridges, commissural surface flattened, with two brown and slightly raised longitudinal ribs. Pericarp lax and fragile, easily rubbed off, seed small, greyish-brown and oily. Odour, aromatic; taste, pungent, cool and numb.

Impotence, frigidity, excessive leucorrhea caused by cold-damp; lumbago due to attack of damp; external use for eczema of external genitalia, vulval itching, trichomonas vaginitis.

1. Warming the kidney and strengthening Yang

In treating importence and female infertility due to deficiency of the kidney, the drug is often used in combination with drugs for tonifying the kidney and replenishing vital essence such as Semen Cuscutae, Fructus Schisandrae, etc.

2. Destroying parasite and relieving itching

This drug can be used to treat trichomonas vaginitis, eczema of scrotum, rubella, scabies, tinea, cutaneous pruritus, etc. In treating trichomonas vaginalis, streaming method or bathing method can be used by using the decoction of the drug, Radix Sophorae Flavescentis, Pericarpium Zanthoxyli, Radix Stemonae, etc., or 15g of the drug can be ground into powder with some alum, and the powder is mixed with water, put on gauze and the gauze is inserted into the vagina once a day. In treating pruritus of vulva, 15g of the drug, 3g of alum, 6g of Pericarpium Zanthoxyli and 12g of Cortex Pseudolaricis can be decocted and the decoction is used to wash the local area. In treating itching due to eczema, the drug can be sued in combination with Radix Sophorae Flavescentis, Fructus Kochiae, Rhizoma Atractylodis, etc.