Description

COMMON NAME Standardized: southern prickly ash
Other: Hercule’s club

BOTANICAL NAME Zanthoxylum clava-herculis L.
Plant Family: Rutaceae

INTRODUCTION About 1350, a book entitled the Ri Yong Ben Cao (Home Guide to Useful Medicines) first advised Chinese physicians of the medicinal benefits of prickly ash, also known as Szechuan pepper. Before prickly ash was used medicinally, however, it was applied in the Imperial Court as the sole anesthetic for the operation by which the Emperor acquired his court eunuchs.

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