Introduction of Common Cnidium Fruit Extract Cnidium monnieri is annual herb, height 30-80cm. Cnidium monnieri leaf is alternate, compundumbel inflorescence. Cremocarp, ellipsoidal, 2-4 mm long, about 2 mm in diameter. Externally greyish-yellow or greyish-brown; with 2outcurved stylopods at the summit, and sometimes with a fine fruit stalk at the base. Dorsal surface of mericarps with five thin and longitudinal ridges, commissural surface flattened, with two brown and slightly raised longitudinal ribs. Cnidium monnieri's pericarp lax and fragile, easily rubbed off, seed small, greyish-brown and oily. Odour, aromatic; taste, pungent, cool and numb.
Application
1.Osthole is widely used in fields of heath products. Osthole can be used as the tonic product on the male impotence, active ingredients of medicines for gynecological diseases.
2.Osthole is widely used in fields of medicine products. Osthole also is used as the tonic product on the acute exudative skin disease.