Abstract
Seung Ma(升摩) is a famous Chinese crude drug used for treatment of fever, piles and suppurative inflamation. With regard to the botanical origin of Seung Ma, it has been considered to be Cimicifuga spicies of Ranunculaceae, but there has no phrarmacognostical confirmation on it. To clarify the botanical origin of Seung Ma from Korea, the anatomical characteristics of Cimicfuga dahurica, Cimicifuga foetida, Cimicfuga heracleifolia and Cimicifuga simplex were studied. As a result, it was clarified that Seung Ma from Korea was the rhizomes of Cimicifuga dahurica, C, foetida and C, heracleifolia.
