Adenophora adenophora, also known as Adenophora adenophora, soaked ginseng, soaked ginseng, white ginseng, Anemarrhena asphodeloides, goat's milk, goat's milk, bell grass, tiger beard and so on. It is a perennial herb of Adenophora of Campanulaceae, which mostly grows in low hills and crevices of rocks and likes warm or cool climate. It is distributed in Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Hunan and other places in China.

Adenophora adenophora is a perennial herb with milky white, carrot-shaped roots, 40-80 cm high stems, unbranched, often short bristles or villous, less hairless, heart-shaped basal leaves, large and long stalks, sessile stem leaves, or only the lower leaves have extremely short wing stalks, oval, narrowly ovate, wedge-shaped at the base, at least nearly obtuse, and sharp or short cone at the top.

The inflorescence of Adenophora adenophora often does not branch into a false raceme, or a very narrow short-branched panicle, and rarely a long-branched panicle. Pedicels are often extremely short, less than 5 mm long, calyx is often pubescent or granular, less completely hairless, tube is often obovate, less obovate conical, lobes are long and narrow, mostly subulate, less lanceolate, 6-8 mm long and 6-8 mm wide. The outer part is hairless or setose, especially on the vein, which is 1.5-2.3 cm long, the lobes are 1/3 full-length, triangular oval, the disk is short and cylindrical, 1- 1.8 mm long and hairless, and the style is often slightly longer than the corolla.

The capsule of Adenophora adenophora is ovoid and spherical, rarely oval, 6- 10 mm long, and the seeds are brownish yellow, slightly flat and angular, about 1.5 mm long. The flowering period is August 8- 10/October. Root medicine, autumn planing, removing aerial parts and fibrous roots, scraping rough skin.