Ginseng: There is a knotted reed head at the top, which tastes bitter and sweet. Fake dealers have a bland taste and a concentric ring on the cross section.
Panax notoginseng: the body has a solid bulge, and the crushed surface is flat and woody; The epidermis is scattered with brown spots, and the taste is bitter and sweet.
Gastrodia elata: Ying Ge mouth, concave navel, with a circle of dried ginger skin outside; Spring is empty and winter is solid, and rosin should be kept in mind.
Morinda officinalis: It looks like a chicken intestine Morinda officinalis, with a thin heart and thick skin, and its color is purple and blue; Fakes are fine and thick, and tiger thorns are easy to break. Don't be deceived
Cynanchum bungeanum: the rhizome has obvious slender nodes, and it is hollow as a goose tube; The fibrous roots on the nodes are thin and curved, so don't confuse them with Cynanchum atratum.
Angelica sinensis: the taproot is short, the branch root is long, and the texture is soft and brown; The oil spots on the section are brown, sweet and pungent.
Coptis chinensis: Coptis chinensis has thick skin and swollen internodes like beads; The fibrous roots are clustered and difficult to stab, and the cross section is yellow and bitter.
Eucommia ulmoides Oliv Eucommia ulmoides Oliv. It is flat or slightly rolled, and its cross section is closely connected with glue line; The skin is purple-brown, flat and smooth, and the longitudinal crack of the skin is extremely obvious.
Crocus sativus: Stigma is linear, which swells like a trumpet after soaking in water; The smell is bitter, reddish brown, and it will not be fake when it turns yellow in water.
Illicium verum: the fruit has eight petals like stars, and the petals are pure beak-shaped; If you don't know what a real star anise is, try the sweet taste again.
Astragalus complanatus: Shaped like flatkidney Astragalus complanatus, with a concave navel on one side; The seed coat is easy to remove when soaked in water, and it tastes a little fishy when chewed.
Brucea javanica: the crow gall has an oval reticular protuberance with a core in the brown skin; The seeds in the nucleus are yellow and white, and the kernel tastes bitter and unique.
Eupatorium adenophorum: the opposite petiole of a single leaf is short, and the flower stem is square in the axil of the leaf; The back of the leaf is densely covered with small glandular spots, so it is not confused with Eupatorium odoratum.
Abrus cantoniensis: Abrus cantoniensis with rattan stems, thick straight roots and rough skin; Leaflets are rectangular with about ten pairs, and there are sparse towels on the back of the leaves.
Money Agkistrodon: the snake body is wound into a disc shape, and the white ring is between the black rings on the snake back; Black and white are three to one wide, and the smell is slightly salty.
Velvet antler: the velvet piece is thin and transparent, with a porous honeycomb in the middle; The color is close to yellow, white or brown, light, tough and slightly fishy.
Antelope horn: the celestial eye is in a flat triangle, and the blood sulcus bones bite each other; Holding the right handle of the annular ridge, bloodshot is a good bone.
Wild Ginseng: Wild Goose-necked reed with horse teeth, jujube stones, short and horizontal body, deep ring pattern, drooping shoulders, tight and smooth skin, two or three short legs, splayed hips, dense knots, and special shape of wild ginseng.