A pubescent perennial herb with thick, elongated rhizomes, to 5-23 cm tall. Leaves twice ternately pinnate, long-petioled, deltoid, 10-20 cm long; leaflets elliptic, dentate, 2-5 cm long, 1-3 cm wide, irregularly dentate. Umbels 1-3 compound, terminal and axillary at upper part, densely pubescent, without an involucre; involucels 10, 4-6 cm long; umbellets 20-40 flowered; bract of involucels few, linear; calyx teeth evident, linear-deltoid, acute; petals white, obovate, emarginate with tip incurved; style elongate; stylopodium disc-shaped, convex. Fruit ellipsoidal, densely pubescent, carpels with thick, winglike prominent ribs; lateral ribs broader than dorsal ones; the vittae numerous, pericap corky.

Analgesic, antibacterial, antipyretic, diaphoretic and expectorant (root)

Plants For A Future
WHO/WPRO-Medicinal plants in the Republic of Korea

Bergapten, imperatorin, phellopterin, psoralen, scopoletin, xanthotoxin, xanthotoxol (root)

The roots are used in the treatment of coughs, dry throat, thirst due to dehydration and migraine headaches.

Jing-Nuan Wu. An Illustrated Chinese Materia Medica. P: 340, Oxford University Press, Inc.2005.