Common Cnidium Fruit is the dried ripe fruit of Cnidium monnieri (L.) Cuss. (Fam. Um-belliferae).

Action: To warm the kidney and promote virility, to remove damp, to dispel wind, and to kill parasites.

Indications: Impotence, frigidity, excessive leukorr- he a caused by cold-damp; lumbago due to attack of damp; external use for eczema of external genitalia, vulval itching trichomonas vaginitis.

Usage: Appropriate quantity to be made into hot decoction for fuming and washing, or to be ground into powder for topical application after mix with liquid.