Fructus Cnidii, also known as wild carrot seed, is a dried and mature fruit of Umbelliferae snake bed. Harvest the fruits in summer and autumn when they are ripe, remove impurities and dry them in the sun. Taste: warm, pungent and bitter. Indications: Warming kidney, strengthening yang, eliminating dampness, expelling wind and killing insects. Used for impotence, palace cold, leukorrhagia due to cold and dampness, and wet lumbago; External treatment of vulvar eczema, vulvar itching, trichomonal vaginitis. Alias wild fennel, wild carrot seed, snake rice and snake chestnut.