Herbal extract Tian Mend Dong extract

It is the root tuber of Lilium asparagus. Harvesting in autumn and winter, but the quality of harvesters in winter is better.
After digging, wash the soil, remove the fibrous roots, separate according to size, boil in boiling water or steam until the skin is easy to peel. Remove and immerse in clean water, remove the outer skin while hot, wash, dry on low heat or smoke with sulfur and then dry.

[Character]
The dried roots are oblong spindle-shaped, plump in the middle, tapered and blunt at both ends, 6 to 20 cm long, and 0.5 to 2 cm in diameter in the middle. The surface is yellowish white or light yellowish brown, oily and translucent, sometimes with fine longitudinal lines or longitudinal grooves, and occasionally a yellowish brown skin that has not been removed. The dry ones are hard and brittle, the non-dry ones are soft, sticky, waxy in cross-section, yellowish white, translucent, with an opaque white heart in the middle. Smelly and slightly bitter. It is better to be plump, dense, yellowish white and translucent. The strips are long and thin, yellowish brown, and not bright.