Pricklyash peel a herb common in traditional Chinese therapy. The pricklyash peel is picked from the finest and freshest fruit and processed under strict control. It is reported to be able to warm the spleen and stomach and relieve pain, to kill worms, and to relieve itching.

• Latin name: pericarplum zanthoxyli.
• Source: the dried pericarp of ripe fruit of Zanthoxylum schinifolium Sieb. et Zucc, or Zanthoxylum bungeanum Maxim (Fam. Rutaceae).
• Indications: epigastric pain accompanied by cold sensation, vomiting and diarrhea; abdominal pain due to intestinal parasitosis; ascariasis.
• External use for itching in eczema.