Epimedium is commonly used traditional Chinese medicine in China, has the very high medicinal value, perennial herbs, plant 20 -- 60 cm tall, short, stout, lignification, dark brown, upright stems, and edges, glabrous, usually without leaf, jilin, liaoning, shandong, jiangsu, jiangxi, hunan, born in hills and forests in the grass, like damp area. Nourish Yin and strengthen Yang.

This product is a berberidaceae plant epimedium (epimedium brevicornum maxim), arrow leaf epimedium (epimedium sagittatum (sieb. Et zucc.) maxim.), pilose on epimedium (epimedium pubescens maxim.), wushan epimedium (epimedium wushanense T.S.Y ing), or north Korea epimedium (epimedium nakai) drying part on the ground. In summer and autumn, when the stem and leaf are luxuriant, the ethanol extract is collected, removed the thick stem and impurities, dried in the sun or in the shade. [2]

Herba epimedii is a traditional Chinese medicine tonic, which has the function of reinforcing Yang kidney, strengthening disc bone, eliminating wind and dampness, and is used for impotence and spermatorrhea, disc bone impotence and soft, rheumatism, pain, numbness and cramping, climacteric hypertension. Can effectively inhibit staphylococcus, anti - aging. Epimedium glycoside is one of its effective components, which can effectively improve cardiovascular system, adjust endocrine and improve endocrine. In addition, it is worth special attention that epimedium also has anti-cancer effect, which is considered as the most potential anti-cancer drug.