Snake bed seed has the effect of drying dampness and dispelling wind, killing insects and relieving itching, warming the kidney and strengthening the yang. It is often used in the vaginal itching and bring down, eczema itching, wet paralysis waist pain, kidney impotence, uterine cold infertility.

Snake bed seed, for the umbelliferae snake bed Cnidiummonnieri?(L.) Cuss. dry mature fruit. It is a double hanging fruit, ellipsoid, 2-4mm long, about 2mm in diameter, with a gray-yellow or gray-brown surface, 2 outwardly curved stigmas at the tip, and an occasional fine peduncle at the base. The abaxial surface of the schizocarp has 5 thin, raised longitudinal ribs, and the jointed surface is flat, with 2 brown, slightly raised longitudinal ribs.

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Serpentine perennial. Stems numerous, arising from a rhizome, up to 60 cm tall, basally creeping rooting, simple or branched, 4-angled, shallowly sulcate, often tinged purple-red, very densely covered with white spreading bristles, sparser proximally, with elongated internodes, much longer than the leaf blade.

From seed to harvest 3 months, sown around the beginning of winter in mid-June harvest, spring sowing in mid-July harvest, summer sowing in mid-September harvest. Cut off the whole plant and dry it in the sun, knock down the seeds, and remove the impurities that is the finished product. Harvest in summer and fall when the fruit is ripe. Pick off the fruit to dry; or cut the ground part of the sun, hit the fruit, sieve clean or bump to remove impurities.

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