【Medicinal parts】tuber and puce bulbil in axil. Chinese name: tuber: Huangyaozi. Puce bulbil in axil: Huangdulingyuzi. 【Harvest & Processing】Tuber: excavated Hungyaozi after 2-3years of planting, taken those over 3cm, wash off sediment, cut off fibril, transect into 1cm-long pieces, sun-dried or dried over fire, or used fresh. Bulbel: harvested in later summer and early autumn, used fresh or sliced, and sun-dried. 【Main components】Tubers contain diosbulbin A-H, 8-epidiosbulbin E acetate, diosgenin, D-sorbitol, 7-tetrahydroxy-9, 10-dihydro phenanthrene, 2, 4, 5, 6-tetrahydroxyphenanthrene, etc.; also sucrose, reducing sugar, starch and tannin, etc. 【Pharmacological effect】Anti-bacterial and anti-tumors and resistant to thyroid enlargement. 【Property】Tuber: bitter, cold, mild-toxic. Bulbel: bitter, pungent, cold, mild-toxic. Cubes: dissipating binds-goiter, clearing heat-toxin, cooling blood and relieving hemorrhage. Bulbel: clearing heat for dissipating phlegm, suppressing cough and asthma, dissipating binds and detoxifying. Mark: As for all the herbs we supply here, all the medicinal information is only for your reference. Please consult with prefessional doctors for any application. Naturix-Seeds will not be responsible for any medicinal effects.