Snow lotus is a perennial herb in the family of Asteraceae. The whole herb is used as medicine. Contains volatile oil, alkaloids, flavonoids, phenols and other compounds. The flavor is pungent, slightly bitter, warm. It has the effect of dispelling wind and winning dampness, promoting menstruation and blood circulation, tonifying the kidney and strengthening the yang.

Treatment of snow blindness, toothache, rheumatoid arthritis, impotence, menstrual disorders, leakage, leukorrhea and other diseases; external treatment of trauma and bleeding, the main production of Xinjiang Tianshan Mountain, the Pamir and other high mountains on the 2,500 ~ 3,500 meters, in the northwest of China, the Southwest Plateau area is also distributed with a variety of plants of the same genus of the snowdrops, can be used as medicine. Most of the wild, the current artificial cultivation is still difficult.

Happy to be born in the alpine steep rock, gravel or sandy moist place, mainly distributed in the plateau, high mountains near the snow line, can be reproduced by seed.