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Description of the drug : Slender cylindrical, straight or slightly curved, 15–70 cm, 0.4–1 cm in diameter. Externally grayish-yellow or pale brown, with slightly twisted and fine longitudinal wrinkles, transverse lenticel-like protrudings and sparse rootlet scars. Texture hard and fragile, easily broken, softened when moistened, fracture even, pale brown, slightly horny and oily. Xylem of vascular bundles arranged in 2–4 whorls. Odour, slight; taste, slightly sweet, somewhat bitter and astringent.
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Wagner, H., Bauer, R., Melchart, D., Xiao, PG., Staudinger, A. (2015). Radix Achyranthis bidentatae – Niuxi . In: Wagner, H., Bauer, R., Melchart, D., Xiao, PG., Staudinger, A. (eds) Chromatographic Fingerprint Analysis of Herbal Medicines Volume III. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06047-7_11
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