Abstract:The authors have investigated and found an effective secret recipe for the tr atment of snakebites in Mabian, an autonomous county of the Yi nationality iu Sichuan Province. Morphologic identification has shown that the recipe is composed of the herb of Pedicularis muscicola and the rhizome of Polygonum viviparum in the ratio of one to one. To facilitate further application, populariz tion and improvement of the recipe, its histological characteristics have also been studied microscopically.