2016年9月23日 · Ban Xia (Rhizoma Pinelliae)——Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing (Shen Nong’s Herbal) The dry tuber of perennial herbaceous plant Pinellia ternata (Thunb.) Breit. of family Araceae. Sichuan, Hubei and Shandong provinces in China. Collected in summer and autumn. Light smell, acrid and spicy, tongue-numbed taste stimulating the throat.