Abstract:It is one of the main components in an effective secret recipe for the treatment of snakebite in Mabian, an autonomaus county of the Yi nationality in Sichuan province. Four compounds bare been isolated from the herb of Pedieularis muscicola. On the basis of spectrometric analysis and physico -chemical constants, they were identified as pediculariside, D-mannitol, arachidic acid and hentriacontane