苦草(Picria fel-terrae Lour)系玄参科(scrophulariaceae),玄参属植物。该属植物仅此一种,产于我国广西、广东、云南、贵州南部,印度、印度支那,马来西亚也有分布。广西东南部梧州、藤县、苍梧、龙州、武鸣及广东的封开、郁南一带民间用作蛇药。广西植物研究所经多年调查,并试用于肿瘤、散结、镇痛、消炎、退热等临床观察,均取得初步疗效。 Picria fel-terrae Lour is a family of Scrophulariaceae (Scrophulariaceae). This genus is only one of this species, produced in Guangxi, Guangdong, Yunnan, and southern Guizhou, India, Indochina, and Malaysia. In the southeastern part of Guangxi, Zhangzhou, Tengxian, Cangwu, Longzhou, Wuming, Guangdong, Fengkai and Yunan were used as snake medicines. Guangxi Institute of Botany has been investigated for many years, and tried for clinical observations such as tumor, sputum, analgesia, anti-inflammatory, antipyretic and so on.