Snow Mountain One-Herb is the tuber of the Ranunculaceae plant Gubu Wutou. It is widely disseminated and used in Sichuan as a medicinal herb for relieving pain caused by wind, cold, and dampness in the muscles, bones, and joints. However, it is highly toxic!
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Snow Mountain One-Herb has the effects of dispelling wind, removing dampness, and resolving blood stasis.
It is commonly used for pain in the muscles, bones, and joints caused by wind, cold, and dampness, as well as for pain and blood stasis caused by falls and injuries, and for bites from insects and snakes.
①Treatment for falls and injuries, rheumatic bone pain, toothache
Take 0.25 grams of Snow Mountain One-Herb orally (about the size of a grain of rice).
②Treatment for falls and injuries, snake bites, insect bites
Soak 50 grams of Snow Mountain One-Herb in one kilogram of alcohol for ten days, then apply externally (do not ingest).
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Snow Mountain One-Herb is a perennial herb, approximately 90 centimeters tall. The tuber is inverted cone-shaped. The stem has short, appressed hairs.
The leaves are alternate, petiolate, palmately divided, with lobes that are shallowly lobed or coarsely toothed. The upper surface is green with a few short hairs, while the lower surface is light green and nearly hairless.
The inflorescence is terminal, with numerous flowers; the bracts are 2, nearly linear, located above the middle of the peduncle; the sepals are 5, petal-like, yellow-green, with one sepal on the upper side forming a helmet shape.
The tuber is cone-shaped or elongated cylindrical, 4-9 cm long, 0.5-3 cm in diameter. The surface is dark brown to brownish-brown, with deep wrinkles and a few root scars. It is hard and difficult to break, with a milky white or light brown powder-like interior and scattered brown dots.
