Areca husk Areca husk: It presents as a gourd-shaped, hard, yellowish-gray shell with longitudinal fibers, and is lightweight. As the pandemic ebbs and flows, the COVID-19 virus has severely impacted our daily lives and changed our habits. Many of our...
Cloves (Male) Cloves (Male): Short club-shaped buds, spherical corolla, brownish-red, oily, aromatic with a pungent and numbing taste. “The clove plant is delicate, its tangled branches still bowed low. Fine leaves with fine hairs, sparse flowers display a simple elegance....
Honeysuckle: Also known as Jia Yin, it has slender, rod-shaped buds, with a pale yellow-white to pale green surface and hairy green calyx. Honeysuckle: Lower quality. Honeysuckle plant: From left to right, the buds gradually mature, finally turning golden flowers....
Qinghua Cassia: Semi-circular grooved, rolled tube, brownish-red. Inner surface reddish-brown, hard and brittle, sweet, spicy, and fragrant. Qinghua Cassia: Outer surface with a colorful coating. Qi Bian Cassia rolled hole. Qi Bian Cassia, outer view. Qi Bian Cassia, inner view....
Hawthorn: Yellow flesh, purplish-red edges, seed like a pomegranate bud. From left to right: Hawthorn seeds, Southern hawthorn (small spherical), Northern hawthorn (large slices). Stir-fried hawthorn. Charred hawthorn. Hawthorn charcoal. Freeze-dried de-seeded hawthorn. Provided by Dr. Chen Da-zhen Tanghulu (candied...
Ginger-processed Pinellia: Features a recessed cavity and brown spots. Processed Pinellia (Zhū Bànxià) First-grade Ginger-processed Pinellia: Resembles a sheep's eye; tastes pungent and irritates the throat. First-grade Processed Pinellia (Fǎ Bànxià): White in color, with a powdery texture being ideal....
Wu Zhu Yu: Top left: Sichuan Wu Zhu Yu, top right: Small-fruited Wu Zhu Yu, bottom: Wu Zhu Yu Wu Zhu Yu: The overall appearance is a pentagonal flattened spherical shape, yellowish-green to brownish in color, with indentations, star-shaped fissures,...
Fresh Mulberry Leaves Mulberry Leaves: The left shows intact leaves, while the right displays shriveled, broken, and cracked ones, colored yellow-green or yellow-brown, with petioles and prominent reticulate venation. Mulberry Leaf Buds Mulberry Twig Medicinal Slices: Thin bark, yellowish-white, with...
Specially Graded Textured Dang Shen: Long cylindrical and slightly curved, ash-brown, with longitudinal wrinkles and lenticels. Textured Dang Shen: Annular wrinkles, earthworm head. Specially Graded Textured Dang Shen from Gansu: Loose skin and tight flesh, with oil spots, fragrant odor,...
First-grade Sichuan Gastrodia: Shows sesame spots and a flat bottom, yellowish-white in color, shriveled, curved, and translucent. Second-grade Sichuan Gastrodia: Features a parrot's beak and toad skin appearance. Left: Sichuan Gastrodia, Right: Yunnan Gastrodia. Sichuan Gastrodia: Exhibits fish-scale patterns,...
